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they had gone. , So we continued out of the 

 forest to Kempt, where we arrived at nine 

 o'clock in the evening, after a day of hard 

 but most healthful work. The next day we 

 returned to the lake to see if our meat was 

 all right, taking with us two extra men. We 

 arrived at six in the evening, too late for 

 work. October 3d, we cut up the meat, 

 and found that our animal weighed between 

 seven hundred and eight hundred pounds. 

 We loaded canoes and started for Kempt at 

 nine in the morning. We spent the night on 

 Big Carry, and reached the landing at twelve 

 o'clock. After dinner David and the men 

 started for home. I, being very tired, found 

 a good place and pitched camp and got all 

 housed for the night. At some time in the 

 small hours David returned, and in the early 

 morning we started for Eel river, where we 

 arrived about eleven in the forenoon. Here 

 we found partridges in great numbers, also 

 plenty of fish. We went down the river 



