The next forenoon, Tuesday, September 1, I started with my companion in a buggy from Bangor for ‘up river,’ expecting to be overtaken the next day night at Mattawamkeag Point, some sixty miles off, by two more Bangoreans, who had decided to join us in a trip to the mountain. We had each a knapsack or bag filled with such clothing and articles as were indispensable, and my companion carried his gun . . .(The Maine Woods, 4-9)
