Lake Umbagog.
Megalloway River.
1896
September 15
  A fine day, cooler, sunny for the most part but with
masses of dark clouds driving rapidly overhead before
the violent north-west wind.
  I have been waiting for just this kind of day for a
trip up the Megalloway so immediately after breakfast
I started with Will in the large boat. The whole
Crocker family were shooting Snipe on the Outlet marshes
and Harry Crocker, who hailed us as we were passing
through Richardson's Carry, told me that they had started
about 15 birds and killed 2 up to that time. He also
said that his father had shot a Black-bellied Plover.
The shooting continued as long as we were within
hearing and just before we reached the mouth of the
Megalloway a Snipe came from the direction of the
big marsh and alighted near us on the river bank.
I landed but the bird was very wild & I missed it.
Landing next at the first pond hole on the left
bank of the Megalloway we found perfectly fresh
tracks of a cow Moose, apparently the same animal
that I saw August 27th. For the next two miles above
this place, as well as around the shores of Pine Hill Pond,
Moose tracks were to be seen everywhere near the water,
some of them those of the cow, others of a large bull,
some fresh, others made at different times during
this past two or three weeks. Will's quick eyes detected
a number of long hairs clinging to a stump where
one of the big beasts had rubbed himself. At several
places we saw where the animal had climbed or
descended the steep banks of the river its hoofs
slipping and making long grooved marks in the clayey mud.
[margin]Trip up the
Megalloway[/margin]
[margin]Beetle-head[/margin]
[margin]Moose tracks]