August 3, 1905, Thursday, (continued) 
Our canoemen (Cote*, Joe Fortin, Hector and 
Edward Gagnon) pitched tent and Fernald and I 
dined with Mr. Starkey upon his invitation. Nice 
dinner and pleasant chat afterwards. Fern s ld and 
I in the tent; the canoemen in the guides' house 
at the camp. From camp we got our first fine 
view of the foothills of the Shickshock Range. 
August 4, 1905 » Friday- 
Fair. partly clear; very warm in middle of day. 
We left the"Nine- mile” camp about 8.00 A. M. 
and stopped for lunch at 11.05 A. M. While at 
lunch two men came down the river with a skin 
of a bear they had killed at the next Starkey camp. 
We camped near the head of a long and hard rapid 
known as "Three mile Rapid" and above Grand Rapid. 
We passed through a wild and beautiful rocky 
gorge (Grand Rapid) where it was very difficult 
to get the canoes through. Fernald and I in our 
lean- to tent under canopies; canoemen in another 
tent, , 
August 5, 1905, Saturday 
Cloudy and somewhat showery. Warm in middle of 
the day. Collected a considerable number of specimens 
and I got quite a numberof mosses. In the late 
P. M. we reached Riviere la Marte (Marten River) 
and camped about one mile above that on a gravel 
beach. Got some fine views of Tabletop Mountain 
A few rods above our camp the top of Mt. Albert 
was seen(our first view of it) th£ top of a 
