64 ADVENTURES IN THE WILDERNESS. 



dotted with islands, and walled in with mountains, 

 before you, and such a bill of fare to select from, 

 and then tell me if it looks like starvation ? If a 

 man cannot make a pound of flesh per day on that 

 diet, I pity him ! 



And now, patient reader, having given you all 

 the information necessary to make you acquainted 

 with the geography of the wilderness, the charac- 

 ter of the sporting therein, the outfit needed for 

 the excursion, the best routes of entrance, and 

 certain suggestions as to hotels, guides, and con- 

 trivances of protection from gnats and flies, I close 

 this chapter with the wish that you may find, in 

 excursions which you may make thereto, the health 

 and happiness which have, upon its waters and 

 under its softly murmuring pines, come to me, and 

 more abundantly — as to one who needed them 

 more — to her who joins me in the hope of meet- 

 ing you amid the lilies which fleck with snow its 

 rivers, or in the merry circle, free from care, which, 

 on some future evening, we hope to gather around 

 our camp-fire. 



