Excerpt from Diary of Daniel E. Heywood: A Parmachenee Guide at Camp Caribou, Parmachenee Lake, Oxford Co, , Maine, Fall of 1890

In the fall of 1890, being in the employ of Mr. J. S. Dan-forth, manager of Parmachenee Club, as Trapper, Hunter and Guide, and having instructions from him to keep a Diary of my adventures, I made the following entries: -

Rump Pond, Oct. 11th.

Came to Rump Pond to-day, from Camp Caribou, to do some trapping for beaver and rats. Went up stream after dinner, and set eleven traps for rats. Went over to Billings' Ponds, and walked all around them. Pound five big roads where they are cutting and hauling wood for winter. I did n't see anything of the house, although there must be a large one somewhere. I saw a deer in the big meadows. I got so close to him before I saw him, and he run so fast, before I got my pistol out, that he got away. I fired four shots after him. Rained and blowed hard all day.

October 12th.

Cold and windy, but no rain to-day. I went up river and hauled my boat over the log jams - three of them, and poled up most to the Second East Branch, looking for more beaver signs, saw none. Went out to Camp Caribou in afternoon after some more beaver traps. The fleas were awful thick in this camp last night.

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