ALONE UP MT. KATAHDIN 271 



and started off on my down-stream journey early 

 the following morning, after taking a photograph 

 of the mountain as it unveiled itself to greet the 

 rising sun. The wind blew strongly in my favour, 

 and in twenty-six hours I arrived at Morcross, the 

 head of Pummadumcook Lake, and there bade 

 farewell to the land of the balsam fir. 



