rilAl'TKK XXVlll. 



Our second week of sport opened with a deer-hunt, 

 which it is allowable to report, since \ve had only the hunt. 

 \Ve reasoned well. 1 think, that fishermen should not live 

 by trout and pork alone, but that a little venison now and 

 then is relished hv the lishy cst of men. Men and guides 

 wen- <c\\\ out upon the lake and ordered to take sta 

 lions at various designated points of land at which the 

 deer were likely to take t<> the \\ater. There we awaited 

 the now faint and then rising -and swelling notes of the 

 hound, the rustle through the leaves and branches, and the 

 plun-e of the licet deer into the lake. My ijuide and 1 

 waited and lounged on a rock; \\atched the^ulls wheeling 

 alxnil their nests on (lull Island; listened, and heard no 

 <oiind lint the voice of the loon. One by one the boats 

 returned to camp, without a shot The whimpering and 

 disappointed hound was picked up on the opposite shore of 

 the buy and taken into one ot the boats and brought in. 

 And Him we planned new ventures for the day. 



1 had partially enirauvd with three of our party, succes 

 sively, to -o up the Osweiratchie river, above the lake, for 

 two or three days. Hut the story of (Irass River was too 

 fresh in their minds for the fair consideration of an expedi 

 tion. the glories of which were vouched for by the word of 

 our guides alone However, the spirit of the great Alex- 



