no WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



stop before the Halfway House was reached, which is 

 ten and one-half miles from the " carry." Here they 

 spent their vacation, and they happened to come out 

 again and to cross Moosehead Lake on the home trip in 

 the same boat that I crossed in. Another party was to go 

 up Pine Stream. This is the stream on which Thoreau, 

 the naturalist, spent some time on when he visited this 

 region in 1857, and near which the man who accompa- 

 nied him killed a cow moose. It is nineteen miles down 

 the river from the " carry." 



Other parties were to make the Allegash River trip, 

 which takes many days and finally lands them on the 

 broad waters of the St. Johns River. This Allegash 

 trip when taken from the Penobscot waters is all down- 

 stream with the exception of about ten miles when you 

 leave Chesuncook Lake. Then you toil up a narrow tor- 

 tuous stream until a small lake is reached and out of this 

 you come to the famous Mud Pond Carry where a team 

 of horses and a wagon take your canoes and supplies 

 into Chamberlain Lake. After that you enter lake after 

 lake until the Allegash River is reached. Then you 

 have a lively run until your canoe glides into the noble 

 St. Johns River. Two parties were to canoe to Har- 

 rington Lake, which is a few miles below Chesuncook 

 Lake. 



As for ourselves, we made the Halfway House easily 

 in time for dinner. My companion, who was making 

 his first acquaintance with the wild and beauteous 



