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lake, where we stopped for the night, in the hut of an 

 Indian named Lewis, of the Passamaquoddy tribe, who 

 had abandoned the wandering life of his race, and turned 

 his attention to farming and lumbering. Here we saw 

 the operation of making snow-shoes, which requires more 

 skill than one might imagine. The men generally make 

 the bows to suit themselves, and the women weave in 

 the threads, which are usually made of the skin of the 

 Caribou Deer. 



The next day we went on foot sixty-two miles farther, 

 when a heavy rain-storm coming on, we were detained a 

 whole day. The next morning we put on snow-shoes, 

 and proceeded about thirteen miles, to the head of the 

 Musquash Lake, where we found a camp, which had been 

 erected by some lumberers in the winter; and here we 

 established our headquarters. In the afternoon an Indian 

 had driven a female Moose-deer, and two young ones of 

 the preceding year, within a quarter of a mile of our 

 camp, when he was obliged to shoot the old one. We 

 undertook to procure the young alive, and after much ex- 

 ertion succeeded in getting one of them, and shut it up 

 in the shed made for the oxen ; but as the night was fall- 

 ing, we were compelled to leave the other in the woods. 

 The dogs having killed two fine Deer that day, we feasted 

 upon some of their flesh, and upon Moose, which cer- 

 tainly seemed to us the most savory meat we had ever 

 eaten, although a keen appetite is very apt to warp one's 

 'judgment in such a case. After supper we laid ourselves 

 down before the huge fire we had built up, and were soon 

 satisfied that we had at last discovered the most comfort- 

 able mode of sleeping. 



In the morning we started off on the track of a Moose, 

 which had been driven from its haunt, or yard, by the 

 Indians the day before; and although the snow was in 

 general five feet deep, and in some places much deeper, 

 we travelled three miles before we came to the spot where 



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