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most luxuriant growth, many trees measuring four to six feet 

 in diameter. This tract abounds in wild fruits of various 

 kinds. We found during the day blackberries, raspberries, 

 huckleberries, sugar-pears, ground-hemlock berries, winter- 

 green berries and red cherries, upon each of which we feasted 

 to our hearts' content. About noon we started another fine 

 buck, at which I got a running shot, but through such thick 

 brush that I failed to bring him down. The guide's gun 

 again failed to go when he pulled, at which he grew exceed- 

 ingly "hot," and threatened all manner of violence to the 

 weapon if it should ever behave so badly again. At two 

 o'clock we arrived at a lumber camp on Hunt creek, one of 

 the tributaries of Thunder Bay river, where we had expected 

 to take dinner; but unfortunately we found the camp deserted 

 and the cupboard in the same deplorable condition as Mrs. 

 Hubbard found hers when she went to it to get her poor dog a 

 bone. However, we did not fare quite so badly as the histori- 

 cal canine, for we had brought a light lunch with us to pro- 

 vide against such contingencies. After eating it and resting 

 an hour we started for another camp fifteen miles farther 

 down the creek, where we intended to spend the night. We 

 hunted through the woods in the direction of the camp until 

 near sundown, when we struck a wagon-track which the guide 

 said would take us to camp, and which we would easily 

 reach before dark, but he had been misinformed in regard to 

 it, and having never been over the ground before, soon con- 

 cluded that there was a probability of our having to sleep on 

 the ground that night. We pushed on, however, as long as 

 we could possibly see the track and then followed it several 

 miles farther by feeling for it with our feet. With great diffi- 

 culty we kept in it in this way until it grew so dim that we 

 could do so no longer, and at nine o'clock we wer? compelled 

 to abandon all hope of finding the camp that night. We 



