UP THE TOBIQUE. 



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through delightful scenery. We stopped 

 for lunch and to rest the horses at a small 

 village called " Three Brooks." 



" Riley brook " was reached about 6 p.m. 

 We found the tents pitched and the Indians 

 expecting us, and at once proceeded to get 

 acquainted. Our guides were John Moul- 

 ton. Joe Ellis, Frank Francis, known as 

 "Talcum"; Pete, his son. Xewell Bear and 

 Baptiste. The long drive through the fresh 

 air had given us such an appetite that we 

 could not wait for Joe Ellis to cook supper. 

 So we supped at the " Harmony Hotel " 

 kept by Mrs. Ross. 



This was our first night in the tent, and 



our names for an autograph quilt, at five 

 cents a head. This quilt was to be drawn 

 for at some future church fair. We de- 

 parted, cheered by the thought that if we 

 failed in getting a moose we might be for- 

 tunate enough to draw a bed quilt The 

 water in the river was quite shallow, but the 

 Indians poled up against the current for 

 the first 7 miles until the '* Forks " was 

 reached. Here we were detained until 4 

 o'clock in the afternoon while the canoes 

 were shod with cedar strips to protect them 

 from the rocks. We camped that night 

 about half a mile farther up on the right 

 branch of the river. We started early the 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY P. M. BERRY. 



A HALT FOR LUNCH. 



our first experience with the " Kenwood 

 Sleeping Bag." We learned a lot about 

 it before morning. It was decidedly chilly 

 in spite of a good camp fire, so we 

 crawled into the bags with all our clothes 

 on. We soon realized our mistake, and 

 spent the next hour in crawling out at short 

 intervals shedding garment after garment, 

 until our costume resembled that of an in- 

 habitant of Xew York City on a hot night. 

 After we had learned to appreciate the dif- 

 ference in temperature between the outside 

 and inside, we found the bags perfectly sat- 

 isfactory, and we should be sorry to be 

 without them on a trip of this kind. 



We had 2 tents, fitted with jointed poles, 

 quickly put up and easily packed. We got 

 away early the next morning, but not be- 

 fore Mrs. Ross had succeeded in getting all 



next morning, but found the Tobique a 

 hard stream to make time on. The water 

 was rarely a foot deep and very swift, and 

 the bottom was full of large stones. We 

 covered about 8 miles that day. often hav- 

 ing to get out and walk. The trees and un- 

 derbrush were so thick and close to the 

 water's edge that walking along the banks 

 was well nigh impossible, and the middle 

 of the river was the only road. The banks 

 affording no clear space large enough, the 

 tents were pitched that night on the stone- 

 of the river bed. and consequently we 

 awoke the next morning rather stiff in the 

 joints. But we had a good chance to lim- 

 ber up <>n this day. There was very little 

 riding in the canoes after this; the water 

 was 50 shallow that the Indians had to walk- 

 all the time and pull the canoes after them. 



