168 BOONEVILLE TO SABATOGA. 



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

 Lake in the darkness, our boat grated u])on the sands and 

 our h)ng day's travel was done. We had arrived at "Stick- 

 nc}^ Camp" situate near the end of a narrow ridge or long- 

 neck of land running out to a point fioni Ihe north shore 

 and fornung the division between First and Second Lakes. 

 The "('amp'' consists of two well built, shingle-roofed 

 log-houses, about Iwenty-tive 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 chess board. 

 Ample verandahs run nearly around each ])uilding. One 

 structure Avas closed to all except the inunediate friends of 

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

 having erected the buildings and having for 3'ears 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 ever}^ season, burrows under the protecting shade of 

 some thickly growing trees. The under-brush,is cut away, 

 leaving large pine and other trees which afford ample shade 

 but pernut the black Hies, " ])unkics " and nios(]uitoes 

 little refuge from the breeze 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 Avails Avere lined 

 Avith fishing tackle, tools to mend a gun, a rod or a boat 

 . Avith, and no limit of couA^enieiit odds and ends of Avoodsy 

 things, affording abundant entertainment and study on a 

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



