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usual caution, and steps into the trap which has been 

 set for him. There's a close time now on all beavers 

 south of the Blackwater River, and in consequence 

 many are the beaver skins shipped as being from north 

 of the Blackwater, whose- owners were never within 

 three hundred miles of that famous beaver district. 



I told of the capsizing of a boat with Drs. W. E. 

 Hughes and W. R. Roe in it. Dr. Hughes treated the 

 ducking with indifference, and did not change his wet 

 clothes for dry ones. As a consequence, when we sat 

 down to our rude meal in the trapper's cabin, he had 

 no appetite and complained of a sore throat and cold 

 in his head. 



In the morning his pulse had increased twenty beats, 

 and he felt bad enough to say that he would stay in 

 bed all day, and starve it out. However, I prevailed 

 upon him to take a cup of soup, made from lentils. 



In spite of his protests, Kibbee and I took the boat 

 and paddled down to the Swan Lake camp. There we 

 found that W. J. Roe and W. R. Roe had not yet 

 started for their next camp. We therefore had dinner 

 together, and taking a couple of bottles of medicine, we 

 poled up-stream again, making the camp at 7 : 30 p. M. 



Dr. Hughes was much better as a result of his en- 

 forced rest, and also from his refraining from food. As 

 to the medicines while he thanked us for bringing 

 them, he declined their use, saying that as he was a 

 doctor, he didrtt take medicine. 



