. New England; a human interest geographical reader. Moosehead Lake from Kineo use except in winter; and the rivers and lakes are thechief thoroughfares, just as they were in the days ofthe first explorers. Even the Indians are not alto-gether lacking, for a remnant of the once powerfulPenobscot tribe has survived, and some of its memberscontinue to resort to the woods to hunt and fish andact as guides. The four hundred persons who constitute this In-dian tribe have permanent dwellings on the outskirtsof the wilderness at Old town, where they occupy an The Maine Forests 34: island in the river
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. Moosehead Lake from Kineo use except in winter; and the rivers and lakes are thechief thoroughfares, just as they were in the days ofthe first explorers. Even the Indians are not alto-gether lacking, for a remnant of the once powerfulPenobscot tribe has survived, and some of its memberscontinue to resort to the woods to hunt and fish andact as guides. The four hundred persons who constitute this In-dian tribe have permanent dwellings on the outskirtsof the wilderness at Old town, where they occupy an The Maine Forests 34: island in the river. A lumbermans bateau rowed bya swarthy Indian gives access to the island. Amongthe dwelHngs, which are set helter-skelter in a some-what close group at one end of the island, are a publichall, a school-house, and a good-sized church. Thereare no streets nor roads —• only Squaw Mountain The tribe owns considerable land which the statelooks after, and from which there is an annual incomeof about twenty dollars for each individual. Oc-casionally a young islander goes to college, and some ofthem have won fame playing ball in the nationalleagues. The levels of many of the wilderness lakes vary onlya few feet, and boatmen, by short portages, or bynone at all, pass easily from one to another. There 342 New England are mail-carriers on some of the forest streams. Onesuch mail-carrier paddles his canoe twenty miles fromMoosehead Lake to Lake Chesuncook, where there aretwo tiny settlements. The journey takes him all day,and he returns the next day. At each of the Chesun-cook settlements is a school-house, and the teacherscome in canoes from the world outside. Hunters, fishermen, and other pleasure-seekers oftenmake long trips on the streams and lakes for days and weeks at a time. A guideand two personscan travel com-fortably in acanoe and carrya tent, food, and
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