Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1894
Sept. 23
(No 2)
  Immediately after breakfast I started off in a boat
with Bill intending to spend the day taking photographs
on the Megalloway. It bid fair at the time to be a
favorable day but when we reached the Outlet the
wind rose and was soon blowing half a gale.
[margin]Outlet Marshes[/margin]
  During the early part of the morning there had been
almost incessant firing on the marshes. Seeing several
men with guns still beating about there we
approached them & asked them what they had been
shooting. They showed us about two dozen waders
- most of them Grass-birds with six or eight Ring-necked
Plover, a Carolina Rail, a Semipalmated Sandpiper, and
a Wilson's Snipe. They had found a very large flock
of waders they said and had killed only a small
proportion of the number the remainder being
scattered over the marsh. We heard more firing there
in the afternoon.
[margin]Pectorals
Ring necks
Ereunetes,
Snipe[/margin]
  We next rowed down river to Sweat's Meadow. Just as
we entered it a Wood Duck rose on the left. I fired
both barrels, bringing feathers at each shot, but the
bird kept on out of sight.
[margin]Sweat Meadow
Wood Duck[/margin]
  There was nothing else in this meadow but we found
abundant signs of the recent presence of Ducks at
the upper end.
  We returned to camp in time for dinner crossing the
Lake in the teeth of a violent wind and rugged sea.
We passed Mr. Wormell in the river. He told us
that his party killed a Deer in the Megalloway
yesterday shooting it from the deck of the steamer as
they were on their way up.
[margin]Deer killed
in Megalloway
River[/margin]