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to start in the morning, and if it had not held some of 
our property would not have been obliged to roll up his 
blanket. Instead of carrying a large bundle of his own 
extra clothing, &c., he brought back the great-coats of 
moose tied up in his blanket. I found that his outfit was 
the result of a long experience, and in the main hardly to 
be improved on, unless by washing and an extra shirt. 
Wanting a button here, he walked off to a place where 
some Indians had recently encamped, and searched for 
one, but I believe in vain. 
Having softened our stiffened boots and shoes with 
the pork fat, the usual disposition of what was left at 
breakfast, we crossed the lake early, steering in a diag¬ 
onal direction northeasterly about four miles, to the out¬ 
let, which was not to be discovered till we were close to. 
it. The Indian name, Apmoojenegamook, means lake 
that is crossed, because the usual course lies across, and 
not along it. This is the largest of the Allegash lakes, 
and was the first St. John’s water that we floated on. 
It is shaped in the main like Cliesuncook. There are 
no mountains or high hills very near it. At Bangor we 
had been told of a township many miles farther north¬ 
west; it was indicated to us as containing the highest 
land thereabouts, where, by climbing a particular tree in 
the forest, we could get a general idea of the country. 
I have no doubt that the last was good advice, but w r e 
did not go there. We did not intend to go far down the 
Allegash, but merely to get a view of the great lakes 
which are its source, and then return this way to the 
East Branch of the Penobscot. The water now, by good 
rights, flowed northward, if it could be said to flow at all. 
After reaching the middle of the lake, we found the 
waves as usual pretty high, and the Indian warned my 
