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lily, and higher in the meadows a great many clumps of 
a peculiar narrow-leaved willow (Salix petiolaris), which 
is common in our river meadows. It was the prevailing 
one here, and the Indian said that the musquash ate 
much of it; and here also grew the red osier ( Cornus 
stolonifera ), its large fruit now whitish. 
Though it was still early in the morning, we saw night- 
hawks circling over the meadow, and as usual heard the 
Pepe (Muscicapa Cooperi ), which is one of the pre¬ 
vailing birds in these woods, and the robin. 
It was unusual for the woods to be so distant from the 
shore, and there was quite an echo from them, but when 
I was shouting in order to awake it, the Indian reminded 
me that I should scare the moose, which he was looking 
out for, and which we all wanted to see. The word for 
echo was PockadunJcquaywciyle . 
A broad belt of dead larch-trees along the distant edge 
of the meadow, against the forest on each side, increased 
the usual wildness of the scenery. The Indian called 
these juniper, and said that they had been killed by the 
back water caused by the dam at the outlet of Chesun- 
cook Lake, some twenty miles distant. I plucked at the 
water’s edge the Asclepias incarnata , with quite hand¬ 
some flowers, a brighter red than our variety (the pul - 
chra ). It was the only form of it which I saw there. 
Having paddled several miles up the Umbazookskus, 
it suddenly contracted to a mere brook, narrow and 
swift, the larches and other trees approaching the bank 
and leaving no open meadow, and we landed to get a 
black-spruce pole for pushing against the stream. This 
was the first occasion for one. The one selected was quite 
slender, cut about ten feet long, merely whittled to a point, 
and the bark shaved off. The stream, though narrow 
