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haps he might get a pair of moccasins at this place, and 
that he could walk very easily in them without hurting 
his feet, wearing several pairs of stockings, and he said 
beside that they were so porous that when you had taken 
in water it all drained out again in a little while. We 
stopped to get some sugar, but found that the family had 
moved away, and the house was unoccupied, except tem¬ 
porarily by some men who were getting the hay. They 
told me that the road to Ktaadn left the river eight miles 
above; also that perhaps we could get some sugar at 
Fisk’s, fourteen miles below. I do not remember that 
we saw the mountain at all from the river. I noticed a 
seine here stretched on the bank, which probably had 
been used to catch salmon. Just below this, on the west 
bank, we saw a moose-hide stretched, and with it a bear¬ 
skin, which was comparatively very small. I was the 
more interested in this sight, because it was near here 
that a townsman of ours, then quite a lad, and alone, 
killed a large bear some years ago. The Indian said 
that they belonged to Joe Aitteon, my last guide, but how 
he told I do not know. He was probably hunting near, 
and had left them for the day. Finding that we were 
going directly to Oldtown, he regretted that he had not 
taken more of the moose-meat to his family, saying that 
in a short time, by drying it, he could have made it so 
light as to have brought away the greater part, leaving 
the bones. We once or twice inquired after the lip, 
which is a famous tit-bit, but he said, “ That go Oldtown 
for my old woman; don’t get it every day.” 
Maples grew more and more numerous. It was 
lowering, and rained a little during the forenoon, and, as 
we expected a wetting, we stopped early and dined on 
the east side of a small expansion of the river, just above 
