at need of having an outfit like
Eddie's--of having it in the party, I mean, handy like, where it would
be easy to get hold of in time of need. I foresaw that clothes would
want mending; also, perhaps, rods; and it was pleasant to note that my
tent-mate would have boxes of tools for all such repairs.

I foresaw, too, that I should burn, and bruise, and cut myself and that
Eddie's liniments and lotions and New Skin would come in handy. It
seemed to me that in those bags would be almost everything that human
heart could need or human ills require, and when we went below where Del
and Charlie, our appointed guides, were crowding certain other bags
full of the bulkier stores--packages, cans and bottles, and when I gazed
about on still other things--tents, boots, and baskets of camp
furniture--I had a sense of being cared for, though I could not but
wonder how two small canoes were going to float all that provender and
plunder and four strong men.

Chapter Five

_Then away to the heart of the deep unknown,_
_Where the trout and the wild moose are--_
_Where the fire burns bright, and tent gleams white_
_Under the northern star._

Chapter Five

It was possible to put our canoes into one of the lakes near the hotel
and enter the wilderness by water--the Liverpool chain--but it was
decided to load boats and baggage into wagons and drive through the
woods--a distance of some seventeen uneven miles--striking at once for
the true wilderness where the larger trout were said to dwell and the
"over Sunday" fisherman does not penetrate. Then for a day or two we
would follow waters and portages familiar to our guides, after which we
would be on the borders of the unknown, prepared to conquer the
wilderness with an assortment of fishing rods, a supply of mosquito
ointment and a pair of twenty-two caliber rifles, these being our only
guns.

It seems hardly necessary to say that we expected to do little shooting.
In the first place it was out of season for most things, though this did
not matter so much, for Eddie had in some manner armed himself with a
commission from the British Museum to procure specimens dead or alive,
and this amounted to a permit to kill, and skin, and hence to eat,
promiscuously and at will. But I believe as a party, we were averse to
promiscuous killing; besides it is well to be rather nice in the matter
of special permits. Also, we had come, in the main, for trout and
explorati