Diaries of field trips, 1896, 1904, 1905, 1906
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August 24, 1905, Thursday, (Continued) Got up about 6.00 o'clock and took the 7.00 o'clock train for Riviere-du-Loup. Went in a carriage to shore below the Bellevue House at the Point and we got fruit of Cornus Luecica and Thalictrum confine and drove back to Riviere-du- Loup station, where we waited for the 12.10 P.M. mixed train on the Temiscouata Railroad en route to Fort Kent, Maine. Train very late and kept getting later. Left Edmundaton Junction two hours and twenty minutes late and Clairs at 10.30 more than three hours late. Teams from the Dickey House met us but the ferry got stuck on a sand-bar in the middle of the river, so in order to lighten the boat, our baggage wagon was driven overboard and ashore. August 25, 1905, Friday Mostly clear. Slept very well and got up at the Dickey House about 7.45 A.M. Had breakfast with Fernald about 8.00 o'clock. Fernald went down by the end of the railroad track to collect some Angelica. I went down one half hour later and did not find him. I went back to the Dickey House and as Fernald had not returned at 10.30 I put his belongings on the carriage and went to the depot. Fernald appeared at the depot. His watch was over one half hour late and he had supposed that he had ample timetto get back to the hotel. Took several photographs from the rear of the train on the way to Ashland Junction. Train on time. Fernald left me at Oldtown. At Bangor I obtained a lower berth in the sleeper and got lunch in the station.