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River and shut us up so that it was impossible to get the boat out 

 except by cutting the bar at low water. 



Ellis Bay was the next point where we intended to stop and 

 the people at the light-house warned us that the man who lived 

 there kept Newfoundland dogs that were a terror to all travellers 

 and warned Willie and myself that., if we were attacked by them, 

 they would eat us up. I had decided that my son and I should 

 walk along the shore and through the woods up to Ellis Bay, and 

 that was the reason of the warning. The men intended to cut the 

 channel when the tide went out and follow us up when the tide 

 turned, which would be in the afternoon. My son and I started 

 and everything went weir until we approached the man's house, 

 when we heard a tremendous barking and uproar generally. I 

 warned my son to keep behind me and I would walk up to the 

 door and knock. I did this, knocking at the door. As soon as 

 I knocked, the uproar became greater, and I heard someone un- 

 lock the door and a great racket was going on inside. The owner 

 opened the door and, as he did so, two tremendously big dogs 

 jumped to the threshold and made a terrible barking, but I was 

 quite satisfied, when I saw them, that their bark was worse than 

 their bite, and, while the man was beating them back, I gave a yell 

 myself and I saw that my yell did far more good than his 

 hammering and the end was that the dogs were quiet and 

 my son and I paid our visit and proceeded on our way. Later, 

 the men came up the bay and we pitched our camp to the north 

 of the house. 



After inspecting the country round there, we proceeded to 

 Betsie River, where there was a telegraph station, and we pitched 

 our camp on the bank of the river, a little distance from the house. 

 While there, I met with a mishap. Besides collecting plants, I 

 was making a collection of fossils and, in breaking a rock, a small 

 atom flew up and struck me on the eye-ball and I was unable to 

 do much for a few days, but was cured by a simple remedy pro- 

 duced by the lady of the house. She told me that, if my eye-ball 

 was scraped by a gold ring, taken off a lady's finger, it would 

 enable me to see, as she knew it had been done on the coast 

 before. I agreed to have her husband try and see what could be 



