Lake Umbagog.
1909
June 9 [June 9, 1909]
(No 3)
  The cove where we are now anchored is inhabited 
by two large Muskrats. They were swimming about in the
open water and diving for grass roots at all hours of the 
day and almost constantly through the entire forenoon 
although the sky was without a cloud and the sun
broiling hot. One of them is surprisingly tame. He swam
past our house boat within a few yards when my guide
was hammering something and when I was paddling across 
the cove in my canoe he intercepted it and came directly
beneath the gunwale so that I could easily have touched
him by extending my hand. He then dove & passed 
under the keel coming to the surface again as soon as he
had got clear of the canoe. When under water he used 
only his hind feet, the forefoot & tail being held motionless.
He approached the canoe within four or five feet in the
evening twilight. I see Muskrats everywhere about this part
of the lake,sometimes five or six in one day.
Tame 
Muskrat