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Image 1 of Down the West branch. ©own the Mc6t tlrip in fIDalne 1890- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 2 of Down the West branch. Gopyiight]^^. COPYRIGHT DEPOSITS- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 7 of Down the West branch. 4 T)cywn the West Branch vw eA Canoeing Trip in cMaine 1399 k W Written by Stokes and T^ickering WTk Press of The Leeds Biddle Co. 1 1 9-2 J Market Street...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 8 of Down the West branch. 37916 Copyfight,n900 _ _ TAUG 23 1900 ft E»i.«i r«vtstON, INTRODUCTION. JUN^J901_ CHAPTER L—The Start. CHAPTER II.— Our Three Days Camp CHAPTER III— The Gorge. CHAPTER IV.— The Horse %ace %apids. CHAPTER...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 9 of Down the West branch. Bown the Mest Branch Introduction mS our vacation drew near, we began to think about taking a trip, and wondered where we would go. Our last expedition along the northern shore of...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 10 of Down the West branch. us, see us off and bid us Bon Voyage. After the coffee and cigars, we gathered up our fishing rods, rifles, cameras and other miscellaneous paraphernalia, and started for Broad Street Station,...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 11 of Down the West branch. ourselves for an all day s ride, and a very pleasant and beautiful one it was, as part of the country through which we passed was magnificent. Stopped at Portland, Maine, for...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 12 of Down the West branch. CHAPTER L The Start. /^te^UNDAY morning, August 27th, 6.30 A. M. found us up and stirring, the morning was bright and clear, and the lake as still as a mill-pond. Oue outfit...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 13 of Down the West branch. the party following on foot. Reaching the river we em- barked and started down to look for a good camping ground, which we found about five and a half miles below, and...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 14 of Down the West branch. 8 Up at 5.45 the next morning to find a dense fog hanging over everything. Had breakfast at 6.30, of which flap- jacks with maple syrup formed the principal part then broke...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 15 of Down the West branch. The view from this camp was particularly fine, Mt.Katahdin looming up directly opposite, about twenty miles away. After a hearty supper Doughten and Pickering each caught a large eel, one weighing three...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 16 of Down the West branch. lO the one reaching it first, so the water fairly boiled under the bows of the canoes as they bounded forward in response to the long swift strokes of the paddles. As...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 17 of Down the West branch. II snap him as he left the water, while the others drove him just where they wanted him to go. He was so w^eak after leaving the water that he could scarcely...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
- Date: 1900
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Image 18 of Down the West branch. CHAPTER IL Our Three Days* Camp K reached the lower end of Chesuncook Lake, which is about twenty-three miles long, at eleven o clock, where we found we would have to wait...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 19 of Down the West branch. 13 blankets lying out in the sun, found upon investigation that the candles had mysteriously disappeared, nothing but the wicks remaining we afterwards found the main body of them had been absorbed...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 20 of Down the West branch. ^4 for Frost Pond. We all took our guides with us leaving one in camp to look after things, and see that no more can- dles melted. Only one of the guides...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 21 of Down the West branch. 15 his time in clambering over the rocks taking photographs of the Gorge. The long absence of the mighty Biddle caused Pick to fear that he had gotten lost, so sent his...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 22 of Down the West branch. i6 six-thirty were ready to move camp. At seven o clock Labree came with his horses and hauled us over to Ripo- genous Lake. We camped again about half way down on...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 23 of Down the West branch. 17 fore leg he fired the deer jumped as if hit, and then stood looking at them while Stokes industriously pumped shot after shot at it without apparent effect. We understand he...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 24 of Down the West branch. i8 dead. Thereby gaining the name of mighty hunter. One of the peculiarities we noticed about these Maine guides was, they might occasionally lie to each other, but never go back on...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 25 of Down the West branch. CHAPTER IIL The Gorge. ^MT HAVING two of the guides to help load the sled ■B aud look after our things, we took the other two, and clambered down through the Gorge,...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 26 of Down the West branch. instead of a sled, which was a cumbersome contrivance built of heavy logs about twelve feet long, with runners tied together by cross pieces four or five feet long. The guides told...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 27 of Down the West branch. 21 acetylene lamp and congregated in the tent to smoke our pipes before turning in. We were all more or less interested in fishing, and had asked several times where the best...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 28 of Down the West branch. 22 and many other stories, the evening slipped by, until 8.30 found us all ready for sleep. This was the only day, so far, we had not been in our canoes, or...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 29 of Down the West branch. CHAPTER IV, The Horse Race Rapids* ^^W AD a beautiful ride down stream of about two Ij^ miles, shooting several small rapids on the Ib%x way. Upon reaching the next carry Doughten...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
- Date: 1900
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Image 30 of Down the West branch. 24 about half way down Biddle and Ed. passed them, out in mid stream, running on the paddle and going about twenty-five miles an hour. Caulder seeing them go down with such...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 31 of Down the West branch. 25 not know how to get Pick and guide off the rock, as it was too far for them to jump, the water too deep to walk, and swimming simply out of...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 32 of Down the West branch. 26 day in some way to make it different from the other days, so they both brushed their hair for the first time since leav- ing Kineo. Breakfasted at 7 A. M.,...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 33 of Down the West branch. 27 Doughten and Pick in the meantime had gone down stream to see if the^^ could get a deer, but did not see any until late in the afternoon on their wa}^...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 34 of Down the West branch. 28 his guide, promising to join us at noon, at the mouth of Katahdin Brook, where we intended making our next camp. Getting our things together and taking Biddle s canoe, we...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 35 of Down the West branch. 29 and began feeding on the lily pads, about three hundred yards away. They waited for some time hoping she would come nearer, or that another one would come out. By this...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 36 of Down the West branch. CHAPTER V. cMt. Katahdin. EPTKMBKR 5th. Up at 4.30 A. M., after a restless night, being awake several times with the cold; the thermometer registered 38° at five o clock, the coldest...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 37 of Down the West branch. 31 feet being so steep we had to pull ourselves up over the large rocks with our hands. Once safely up, on this table- land, many hundred feet above the line of...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 38 of Down the West branch. 32 they had been polished, and were of a deep purple. They rise nearly perpendicularly on three sides from a small lake that nestles among the trees at their foot. By this...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 39 of Down the West branch. 33 with him, so the three set out, while the rest of us sat around and rested. They went over to Lily Pond and waited some time in cover, where they saw...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
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Image 40 of Down the West branch. 34 We stopped on dead water at 12.25 for lunch, and while the guides were building a fire, all started off in different directions, to see if we could add anything to...- Contributor: Stokes, [J. Bispham]
- Date: 1900