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trouble.” “Ye!” replied Louis, “ may be you carry 
some provision for all, — some pork, — some bread, — 
and so pay.” He said, “ Me sure get some moose ”; 
and when I asked if he thought Pomola would let us 
go up, he answered that we must plant one bottle of 
rum on the top; he had planted good many ; and when 
he looked again, the rum was all gone. He had been 
up two or three times: he had planted letter, — Eng- 
lish, German, French, &c. These men were slightly 
clad in shirt and pantaloons, like laborers with us in 
warm weather. They did not invite us into their houses, 
but met us outside. So we left the Indians, thinking 
ourselves lucky to have secured such guides and com¬ 
panions. 
There were very few houses along the road, yet they 
did not altogether fail, as if the law by which men are 
dispersed over the globe were a very stringent one, and 
not to be resisted with impunity or for slight reasons. 
There were even the germs of one or two villages just 
beginning to expand. The beauty of the road itself was 
remarkable. The various evergreens, many of which 
are rare with us, — delicate and beautiful specimens of 
the larch, arbor-vitse, ball-spruce, and fir-balsam, from a 
few inches to many feet in height, — lined its sides, in 
some places like a long, front yard, springing up from the 
smooth grass-plots which uninterruptedly border it, and 
are made fertile by its wash; while it was but a step 
on either hand to the grim, untrodden wilderness, whose 
tangled labyrinth of living, fallen, and decaying trees 
only the deer and moose, the bear and wolf, can easily 
penetrate. More perfect specimens than any front-yard 
plot can show, grew there to grace the passage of the 
Houlton teams. 
