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piort'ingly cold and frosty days towards the close of 

 Novembor, when our party, consisting of ua two and our 

 attendant Indian, tlie faithful John Williams, (than 

 whom a more artful hunter or more; agrceahle companion 

 in camp never stepped in mocassin) arrived at the little 

 town of Windsor, at the head of the l)asin of j\linas, 

 whence embarking in a small schooner, wc W(H-e to cross 

 to the opposite side to hunt the cariboo in the iicighbcnu- 

 hood of Parsboro'. I'he distance across was but a matter 

 of thirty miles or so, and with light hearts we step})c(l on 

 board, and stowed our camping apparatus, bags of pro- 

 visions, l)lank('ts and rifles in the hold of the "Jack 

 Easy," when presently the rai)i(lly ebbing tide bore us [ 



swiftly down the course of the Avon into the dark- f 



coloured waters of the arm of the Bay of Fundy. i 



Tlu; first part of the voyage was pleasant enough ; a ' 



lio;ht thouuh freshening brecjic from the eastward filled i 



the sails ; and we swe})t on with the surging tide of i-cd I 



mud and water past the OT*''^t dark headland of IMomidon : 



with its snow-streaked furrows and crown of evergreen ' 



forest, enjoying both our pipes and the [)rospect, and '^ 



recalling the various interesting traditions of this famed 

 location of the old Acadians whose memory has been so .1 



beautifully perpetuat(;d by Longfellow. lUit on leaving I 



the cape and standing across the open bay, we soon ,; 



encountered a rouglier state of affairs. The dai'k nmrky • 



clouds now commenced discharging a heavy fall of danij) 

 snow, which froze upon everything as soon as it fell, 

 rendering the process of reefing, which had become neces- il 



sary from the increasing breeze, very difficult of accom- ^ 



plishment. The sheets were coated with a film of ice, j 



and frozen stiffly in the blocks, and the deck became so I 



