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with the explorers, and turned up Lobster Stream, 
which comes in on the right, from the southeast. This 
was six or eight rods wide, and appeared to run nearly 
parallel with the Penobscot. Joe said that it was so 
called from small fresh-water lobsters found in it. It is 
the Matahumkeag of the maps. My companion wished 
to look for moose signs, and intended, if it proved worth 
the while, to camp up that way, since the Indian ad¬ 
vised it. On account of the rise of the Penobscot the 
water ran up this stream quite to the pond of the same 
name, one or two miles. The Spencer Mountains, east 
of the north end of Moosehead Lake, were now in plain 
sight in front of us. The kingfisher flew before us, the 
pigeon woodpecker was seen and heard, and nuthatches 
and chicadees close at hand. Joe said that they called 
the chicadee kecunnilessu in his language. I will not 
vouch for the spelling of what possibly was never spelt 
before, but I pronounced after him till he said it would 
do. We passed close to a woodcock, which stood per¬ 
fectly still on the shore, with feathers puffed up, as if 
sick. This Joe said they called nipsquecohossus. The 
kingfisher was skuscumonsuck; bear was wassus; In¬ 
dian Devil, lunxus ; the mountain-ash, upahsis . This 
was very abundant and beautiful. Moose-tracks were 
not so fresh along this stream, except in a small creek 
about a mile up it, where a large log had lodged in the 
spring, marked “ W-cross-girdle-c.row-foot.” We saw 
a pair of moose-horns on the shore, and I asked Joe 
if a moose had shed them; but he said there was a 
head attached to them, and I knew that they did not 
shed their heads more than once in their lives. 
After ascending about a mile and a half, to within 
a short distance of Lobster Lake, we returned to the 
