168 BOONEVILLE TO SARATOGA. 



It was after nine o'clock when, after having crossed First 

 Lake in the darkness, our boat grated upon the sands and 

 our long day's travel was done. We had arrived at "Stick- 

 ney Camp " situate near the end of a narrow ridge or long 

 neck of land running out to a point from the north shore 

 and forming the division between First and Second La! 

 The "Camp" consists of two well built, shingle roofed 

 log-houses, about twenty the by twenty eight feet, and one 

 and a half stories high, a corner of each nearly touching a 

 corner of the other, like the squares on a < lirs> hoard. 

 Ample verandahs run nearly around each building. One 

 structure was closed to all except the immediate friends of 

 the owner. The other was at the disposal of our guide, he 

 having erected the buildings and having fur years been 

 the guide of the "Stickney Party.' A framed building. 

 used as a boat-house below and general depository above, 

 stands on the shore of Second Lake, and an ice-house, well 

 filled every season, burrows under the proieciing >hade of 

 some thickly growing trees. The under brush i> cut away, 

 leaving large pine and other trees which alTord ample shade 

 but permit the black Hies. punkies " and mosquitoes 

 little refuge from the bive/.e that almost continually blows 

 from one lake or the other. 



The house we occupied had a well appointed and fur- 

 nished kitchen, as to essentials. Its rude walls were lined 

 with tishing tackle, tools to mend a gun, a rod or a boat 

 with, and no limit of convenient odds and ends of woodsy 

 things, affording abundant entertainment and study on a 

 rainy day, and exceedingly handy in case of almost any con 



