1894
Sept. 24
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
Pine Point
  Much cooler the sky filled with cloud masses which drove rapidly
before a violent N.W. wind, the sun shining out for brief intervals
between them. The Lake white-capped, wild & stormy looking.
  I spent the entire day about camp cutting some birches for
exercise. No birds save a flock of Chickadees & Kinglets. 
[margin]Small birds[/margin]
  Some young men who have been camping on Moll's Rock
rowed down the Lake early this morning & came upon
a Bear which was swimming across from the Tidswell place
to Great Island. They fired a number of shots at and
finally killed it. This is the third Bear which has
been killed near the lower end of the Lake within the
past two weeks. The first was shot by Deering in a 
pasture, the second by Charlie Douglas from the steamer
as it was swimming from B. Point to Birch Point. A
fourth, a cub of about 40 lbs. weight, was caught alive
by a young man who pursued it across a pasture (the
Pearly White pasture about Sargents's) and overtaking it threw
a horse blanket over its head. The old "she" and another
cub were with it & ran off. These bears had been 
robbing apples on this farm & had torn the young trees
to pieces so as to nearly ruin them.
[margin]Bear shot
while swimming
across lake
from Tidswell
place to 
Great Island[/margin]
  Yesterday morning two young fellows who are camping
on our old point & trapping musk rats shot a
very large Buck in Leonard's Pond.
[margin]Buck shot
in
Leonard Pond[/margin]