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our quarters, on the afternoon of September 25, to Birch 

 Island, which is situated in Lake Ahmic. 



The photographer was at the same time engaged in 

 taking some views on this lake, while I was absent search- 

 ing for ruffed grouse. We were joined in the evening by 

 Wellington Ross, who now becomes a member of our party. 

 The sport went on, from day to day, in about the same 

 manner as has been already detailed. The evenings were 

 passed very pleasantly before the camp-fire ; the captain 

 and his brother, although very modest men, have had a 

 large experience in hunting and trapping, and they narrate 

 this experience in a quaint and quiet way, after we finally 

 succeed in getting them started. 



Wellington has spent a few years on the Pacific coast, 

 and describes the game and the methods of hunting in that 

 region, as well as the nature of the country, the timber- 

 growths, etc. Our friend Struce, who classes himself 

 among the amateur sportsmen of the United States, has 

 certainly sufficient experience to enable him, in camp, to 

 add his full quota to the enjoyment of a party of hunters. 

 He tells a bear story well, although he does not even claim to 

 have hunted bruin. The captain has killed several bears, 

 but these animals with which he came in contact and 

 slaughtered were, apparently, very well behaved, and died 

 without making any unusual fuss about it. 



Thus day after day was passed in hunting and fishing 

 and social intercourse around the camp-fire ; but at last our 

 friend Struce decided that he could remain no longer with 

 us, and that the next day he must take his departure for 

 Brooklyn. It had been intended by the whole party that 



