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times a week, and never on the arrival of the boat, and 

 will occupy ten hours of your time at a charge of three 

 dollars and a half; or you may take an extra for sixteen 

 dollars. If you hire one of Kelley, the stage proprietor, 

 make a tight bargain, for he is Biblical and takes in 

 strangers. In case you should be too late to reach 

 Bathurst the same day, or have leisure on your hands, 

 stop at the Half-way House on the Tabasintac, which 

 has the last syllable accentuated, and fish that night 

 and the next morning for sea trout. They are taken 

 from a horse-boat in abundance and of great size. 



In Bathurst there is a good hotel called the "Welling- 

 ton, kept by Mr. Baldwin, with the efficient aid of Mary ; 

 and also a more private establishment, by Bela Packard, 

 which is the customary resort of Americans. There is a 

 telegraph from St. John to Bathurst, and Baldwin will 

 meet at Chatham any guests that send him word, and 

 bring them to Bathurst for fourteen dollars. In the 

 latter place, Ferguson, Rankin & Co. will furnish all 

 the heavy outfit, such as pork, biscuit, butter, tea, sugar, 

 tobacco, and will have them ready put up if written to 

 beforehand. As it is customary on the Nipisiquit to 

 loan the guides blankets, the same firm keep them on 

 hand, and will lend them to those that buy stores of 

 them. Once or twice a month the Arabian leaves She- 

 diac and stops within a couple of miles of Bathurst, and 

 if you can manage to suit, your time to hers, you can go 

 direct and be ticketed through for ten dollars. Her 

 days may be ascertained at the office of the Boston boats, 

 but it is well to telegraph to Bathurst to have a canoe to 

 meet you, as otherwise you may have difficulty in reach- 



