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and the fire, but it beginning to rain suddenly, he took 
refuge under the tent with us, and gave us a song before 
falling asleep. 
Friday, July 31. 
•The Indian said, “You and I kill moose last night, 
therefore use ’em best wood. Always use hard wood 
to cook moose-meat.” His “best wood” was rock- 
maple. He cast the moose’s lip into the fire, to burn 
the hair off, and then rolled it up with the meat to carry 
along. Observing that we were sitting down to break¬ 
fast without any pork, he said, with a very grave look, 
“ Me want some fat,” so he was told that he might have 
as much as he would fry. 
We had smooth but swift water for a considerable dis¬ 
tance, where we glided rapidly along, scaring up ducks 
and kingfishers. But as usual, our smooth progress ere¬ 
long came to an end, and we were obliged to carry canoe 
and all about half a mile down the right bank, around 
some rapids or falls. It required sharp eyes sometimes 
to tell which side was the carry, before you went over 
the falls, but Polis never failed to land us rightly. The 
raspberries were particularly abundant and large here, 
and all hands went to eating them, the Indian remarking 
on their size. 
Often on bare rocky carries the trail was so indistinct 
' that I repeatedly lost it, but when I walked behind him 
I observed that he could keep it almost like a hound, and 
rarely hesitated, or, if he paused a moment on a bare 
rock, his eye immediately detected some sign which 
would have escaped me. frequently we found no path 
at all at these places, and were to him unaccountably 
delayed. He would only say it was “ ver strange.” 
We had heard of a Grand Fall on this stream, and 
