Up the river farther we found another mill looked after by Sam Ferguson.

Both mills were frozen up.

The Indians had been here all winter.

They come from Lake Superior when the swamps froze up there, to hunt deer, till the weather gets warm, then they returned to the Lake to fish.
Of course the presence of the Indians made game scarce, but the mill men told us if we would go up farther into the marten country they thought we would do well.

We therefore made us a hand sled, put some provisions and traps on board, and started up the river on the ice.