74 MADAWASKA PIGS. 



porkers we saw frequently grunting along were to me 

 another reminiscence of my ancient Swedish adventures. 

 Only, in every undesirable quality, they were a little 

 more so even than my Scandinavian acquaintances. My 

 natural-historical fellow-companion pronounced tbem a 

 cross between a giraffe and a crocodile — the former 

 having given them length of leg, and the latter length of 

 snout. 



Tea is — in this province at least — almost as constant 

 a beverage as it is in Russia. No dinner is complete 

 without the tea ; and one of the females of the household 

 always considers it her duty to attend, during the con- 

 sumption of the potatoes and the ham and other good 

 things, to pour out the tea for the company. 



In Norway, I used to amuse myself with the perpetual 

 lax'^ everywhere set before us. It was lax to breakfast, 

 lax to dinner, and lax to supper — here, as a witty friend 

 of mine observed, it was " Te veniente, te redeunte die." 



At Grand Falls we only stopped to dine. We then 

 returned through the better land, and the more familiar 

 Scotch and Irish settlements, to the mouth of the Restook 

 river, and thence to the mouth of the Tobique, where 

 there is a comfortable inn. To-day, as during our whole 

 excursion, the beautiful fire-weed, Epilohium angustifo- 

 lium^ springing up with its tall stem and purple flowers, 

 wherever the forest has been burned, and sometimes over 

 great breadths at once, as if it were a sown crop, formed 

 an interesting and striking contrast to the blackened 

 stems and twigs among which it grew. 



22d August. — The mist still rested thick and heavy on 

 the waters of the St John, flowing here at the rate of 

 eight miles an hour, when at five minutes before five, . 

 after a hasty breakfast, my Mellicete Indian boatman, 

 John Francis, pushed off his bark-canoe to pole and 



'^ Dried salmon. 



