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bull moose and the like were coiistautly before us. We 

 could see ourselves Avounded aud uo physicians within a 

 hundred miles; our canoes smashed, provisions gone, and 

 perchance ourselves lost in the woods. How did we knoAV 

 but that these Indian guides would scalp and rob us? We 



First View of Kineo. 



awoke with the feidiiig that we would prefer 'diome and 

 motlier." A grand lake is ^Moosehead. Set in that wild 

 and beautiful country, it is a picture l)(\yond the pen to 

 describe. It is the largest lake in the ^State, and is tlie 

 main artery, winter and sumuK^', to the lumbering camps 

 of Maine. Annually millions of tons of provisions pass 

 over it by steamer in summer and by sleigh in winter. On 

 account of its rough Avaters the steamers, though small, 

 have powerful enuines, and, we niight say, tiy over the lake, 



