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He looked upon this oversight as a very great blun- 

 der. 



The wind when we started was very fresh, and Mar- 

 tin said he was afraid that when we reached Round Lake, 

 which seems, from some cause or other, to be thrown into 

 twice the agitation that either of the lakes is between 

 which it lies, we should get a wetting. But when we 

 entered the crooked inlet, three miles long, which con- 

 nects the Lower Saranac with it, the sudden silence and 

 repose that followed seemed to indicate that the gale had 

 all at once subsided. We kept on up the quiet stream, 

 startling the wild fowl as we advanced, until at length 

 the roar of rapids ahead echoed down through the 

 forest. JSoon after they came in sight, Charlie, who was 

 ahead, endeavored to push up a few feet around a cer- 

 tain rock, but was caught by the current, and hurled 

 back against our boat, throwing it amid the rocks and 

 boiling water, from which Chet, in trying to extricate it, 

 snapped one oar short off. " Well," I exclaimed, " we 

 "are now in a fix ; four or five miles to go before dark 

 against a head wind, with one oar." There was no 

 remedy for this mishap, and the guide must paddle the 

 boat the whole distance, no easy job against wind and 

 sea. We got along very well while in the still inlet, 



