Diaries of field trips, 1896, 1904, 1905, 1906
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July 8, 1905, Saturday, (Continued) before dinner and then [illegible] and I went eastward while Williams, his wife, and Miss Waring went westward. About 3.30 P. M. or thereabouts we reached the eastern end of the great headland and came out on top of a 50 foot cliff. Looking over this we discovered that a lady, and a gentleman and their canoe had been forced ashore by a change in the wind and a thundershower. Upon watching them a little while we realized that they had, of necessity, abandoned their canoe and had started to walk westward in hopes of finding their way out. As we knew this was impossible at high tide we followed along the top of the cliff which continued for a long distance and growing higher as we walked along. Finally we found a place to get down by means of our Alpine rope. We went down leaving the rope in place and we caught up with them after awhile and found that our suspicions were correct as to their intentions of walking home. We all came back to the rope and with aid of this went up to the top of the cliff. We were obliged to make a long and hard trip over the crests of the cliffs through the woods as the beaches at the base were submerged by the high tide. We finally reached the barn at the beach where we left the team at 8.00 P. M. and drove on to Michaud's over the trail on Cap 6. At Michaud's we all went in and got partially warm. We learned that the man and woman were Mr. and Mrs. Dale of Montreal. Mrs. Dale put on a dry skirt at Michaud's and we all drove home in our team which we found waiting there.