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Camps and Tramps About Ktaadn. 



NIGHT VIEW OF THE CAMP. 



poles, or it may be logged or otherwise reenforced according to the 

 weather. Smaller parties sometimes prefer the "A" tent. Works 

 like ours may be built from standing trees, in a day or two, by three 

 expert guides. Our camp was placed some thirty rods from Ktaadn 

 Lake, and a good path was cut to it through the underwood. 



We are a party of six excursionists and five guides. Four of us 

 are artists, whom we will call Don Cathedra, Don Gifaro, Herr 

 Rubens, and M. De Woods. Two of us are professional men, — M. 

 La Rose and myself, Mr. Arbor Ilex. 



At 7 p. m., September 4th, we boarded an Eastern Railroad 

 sleeping-car at Boston. We breakfasted in Bangor and dined in the 

 village of Matte wamkeag, on the European and North American 

 Railway, fifty-eight miles further, where we met our chief guide and 

 bought our heavy supplies. Wedged with our impedimenta into 

 two wagons, we jogged twenty-five miles to the northward, 

 and slept in the outlying settlement of Sherman. On the bright 

 morning of the 6th we and our roughing baggage were packed 

 into a four-hOrse, springless wagon, with the running gear of a 

 gun-carriage and the side-grating of a bear-cage. The signifi- 

 cance of this construction soon became obvious. Upon driving 

 some half-dozen miles to the eastward, we suddenly rose upon 



