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the people say stands for Blue Beard and they suppose that he had buried
much treasure near-by.  On this account the ground around is dug up in
every direction.  Mrs. R. told us that two friends were spending some time with
them - a young mining engineer and his wife, they were then out on the river fishing.
These two young people were stranded, in other words, they had no visible
means of support, notwithstanding, he could waste his time doing nothing.

We spent more than an hour with Mrs. R.  After shoring up the path around the creek we bade her good-bye.  She said we must come back
and borrow the boat.  We found the path very pretty.  It was now 12 o'clock.
Finding a nice place we stopped to eat lunch; this did not take us long and as soon
as we were through we started for the inlet.  As we approached the house, Fannie
(the dog) announced our coming.  Mrs. R. appeared and told us we must by all means
borrow the boat.  We were very glad to borrow it and thanked her for lending
it to us.  We went at once to the place where the boat was and took possession.
It did not take us long to get the boat overboard.  It was very light,
and was tossed about readily by the waves.  The inlet to the creek is
very narrow and winding, and we found it impossible to row up it,  Mr. W.
therefore took off his shoes and stockings and pushed the boat along.  As soon as I could
get out of the boat I got hold of the rope at the bow and pulled, in this way
we got the boat to the bridge which crosses the inlet.  We now found that
it was impossible to get the boat under the bridge.  We tried hard but it could
        