1894
Sept. 20
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
  Cloudy during the forenoon the sun coming out in the
afternoon but the night closing in dark & stormy again
with heavy rain & distant lightning.
  At about 9 A.M. Jim & Will arrived with the boats &
rowed us back to camp. The sky was threatening but
only a little fine rain fell. We heard a Pileated Woodpecker
on the Androscoggin. A Sheldrake and two Whistlers
flew over us.
[margin]Pileated W.
Ducks[/margin]
  In the afternoon I sailed over to the Outlet and searched
a little for Snipe flushing three. Two of them rose wild.
The third lay closely among tussock grass on the river
bank & I shot it.
[margin]Snipe[/margin]
  Returning to camp I got some shells loaded with large
shot and Jim rowed me to Moose Point where we
waited until it was nearly dark. We saw five small
Ducks which looked like Teal flying very swiftly over the marshes
in a close bunch; two Black Ducks, one of which alighted
in the grass just out of range; and three Whistlers. The
last came directly over me. I shot at the leader and as
he kept on gave him the second barrel also but just
as I did so saw that he had begun to curve downward.
He fell stone dead in the Lake at least sixty yards
from where I stood. He must have been flying at
unusual speed.
[margin]Moose Point
at evening.
Teal?[/margin]
[margin]Black Ducks.
I shoot a
Whistler.[/margin]
 Several Snipe came rushing down past us on set wings
and I heard other scaiping in the distance.
[margin]Snipe[/margin]