Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Note

In the Illustration List numbers 33 and 44 are missing. The list has
been left as printed.

Repaired some punctuation omissions—a number of missing fullstops.

Page 113: changed Metagamonsis (in the illustration) to Matagamonsis.

Italics are denoted with _ (underscore).

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CANOE AND CAMERA:
A
TWO HUNDRED MILE TOUR
THROUGH
THE MAINE FORESTS.

BY
THOMAS SEDGWICK STEELE.

“If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrows that thou wouldst forget,
If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep
Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills!—no tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.”
LONGFELLOW.

_WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS_,
BOSTON: ESTES AND LAURIAT, PUBLISHERS.

_Copyright, 1882_,
BY THOMAS SEDGWICK STEELE.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

_Thomas Sedgwick Steele_
_Hartford, Conn., 1880._]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
An Angler’s Soliloquy.—Isaak Walton’s ideas.—A fishing
minister.—The route to the woods.—Moosehead
Lake and vicinity 19

CHAPTER II.

The different routes through Maine.—The Party, Guides,
Baggage, Provisions, Canoes, Arms.—Camp appetite.—Studying
Geography.—The start.—Bid adieu to Moosehead
Lake.—North East Carry.—West Branch of the
Penobscot.—First Camp on Moosehorn stream 27

CHAPTER III.

Our first Camp at mouth of Moosehorn stream.—Accommodating one’s
self to circumstances.—The “Rips” of the West Branch.—Running
the Rapids.—Pine Stream Falls.—Chesuncook Lake.—Umbazooksus
River.—A “Bear” welcome.—Mud Pond and “Carry.”—A Picture
difficult to photograph.—Third Camp at Chamberlin Lake 51

CHAPTER IV.

Chamberlin Farm and Lake.—A novel fly-trap.—A lesson in Natural
History.—Telosmis Lake.—The “Cut.”—A three days’ rain-storm.—Webster
Lake and Dam.—An Apparition.—The weird stillness of
the primeval forests.—An accommodating fly-catcher 64

CHAPTER V.

Passage of Webster Stream.—An exciting day’s sport.—The damaged
canoes.—The canvas boat triumphant.—Grand Falls.—Photographing
along the route.—Indian “Carry.”—East Branch of the Penobscot.
—Matagamonsis Lake.—The discovery of a new Lake.—Trout
Brook Farm.—Grand, or Matagamon Lake.—A captured salmon 93