298 MISCELLANEOUS. 



We have retained lasting souvenirs of the event in the 

 shape of some excellent photographs of our group, camp, the 

 lake in which we caught many fine fish, etc., for all of which 

 we are under obligations to the Doctor, who carried the pho- 

 tographic apparatus and took the negatives. As an amateur 

 photographer, as well as in many other respects, he is a brick. 

 Among the many enjoyable incidents of the trip, we shall 

 always remember how the Doctor went to sleep in a coach 

 with his head thrown back and his mouth open ; how he 

 woke up to find it full of paper, and how all the other pas- 

 sengers enjoyed the joke much better than he did ; how the 

 Captain was alarmed when suddenly aroused from his slum- 

 bers by something trying to walk over or through the tent, 

 which he imagined was a huge bear, but which proved to be 

 only the old hunter's harmless dog looking for a bone on 

 which to make a lunch ; how on the return trip his (the 

 Captain's) appetite grew so ravenous that he invariably or- 

 dered everything on the bill of fare at hotels. How the 

 Parson, alias " Humpty Dumpty," showed up when about to 

 take the war-path in search of large game, with the skirts of 

 his rubber bonnet tucked up behind and sticking straight out 

 at the sides like the oars of our skiff. 



For years past I have heard strange rumors of the finny 

 monsters that were said to dwell in Pelican lake. Hereto- 

 fore, it has been a strange aqua incognita, said to lie away in 

 the northern wilderness, somewhere in the central portion of 

 Lincoln county, Wisconsin; but this was all any one could 

 tell me of it. Only the Chippewa Indians, a few hardy 

 woodsmen and a very few adventurous sportsmen had seen 

 it, and they brought to the less favored portion of creation 

 such news as they saw fit to give concerning the strange 

 water. 



Residents of Wausau and Merrill have told me that they 



