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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.