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Lake Umbagog
Pine Point
1898.
September 27
  Clearing with occasional heavy showers. Strong N.W. 
wind.
  Melvin came up on the steamer this morning
but he and Baker returned to Lakeside in the
late afternoon. They hunted Partridges on 
Pine Point in the early afternoon starting nine
or ten and killing four. I have never allowed
any birds to be killed here before but have now
given up all hope of preserving them as they
are constantly hunted after I leave.
[margin]My guests
shoot 
Partridges
on Pine
Point.[/margin]
" [September] 28  
  Cloudless with strong N.W. wind and brilliantly clear.
air.
  Broke camp and sailed the house boat down
the lake leaving Pine Point at 11 A.M., anchoring
near Bear Island for dinner and reaching Lakeside
at 4 P.M. The big boat behaved unusually well
but 'twas our last sail for I have decided to
have all her rigging removed and the hull cut
down so that she will be turned into a floating
house without means of propulsion.
[margin]We sail the
house boat
to Lakeside[/margin]
  Baker killed a small deer at Mollidgewock 
this summer & Will Sargent shot a fine [male] Spruce
Partridge with a rifle [?] ruining the bird
for a specimen. Two young spruce Grouse were
killed in the same locality yesterday and last Spring
Paul West snared an adult pair, the [female] of which
laid an egg the next morning.