All kinds of weather today,- regular New England climate, after Mark Twain. It started in to be fair, though windy. Up at five-thirty,- breakfast at six,- Indian pudding, bacon, pancakes, bread, and coffee. Pancakes were fine,- couldn't ask for anything better anywhere.

We broke camp and took to the water at 8:30. A brisk breeze on the lake from the south made us hustle to round Big Island and Pine-knot Point. Pulled around Long Point and entered the Marion River (2 miles from camp). This is much like Brown's Tract Inlet, though wider, and not quite so many turns. Six miles of this, passing the beginning of the railroad carry to Utowana, brought us to a point midway on the carry, from which we carried half a mile along the railroad track to the lake.