Figure 4. Notes Immediately Following Entries
8 Friday
The air is pretty cool this morning and the wind quite fresh
and chilly.
At 9 A.M. bundled in cloak & hood went out in a
small boat to fish.
sailed down the Harbor 2 1/2 miles had one
bite, but lost it, stopt at
the Siscowit Mining Co's location
visited the grave yard there, there are
only three graves in it
and one of them is a man that starved to death
on this
Island in the month of March A. D. 1844, his wife was the only
person
then remaining on this Island, and she supported herself by ensnaring
Rabbits, We now got into our boat and came about half way home
where
we crossed over to a small Island oposite, launched our boat
strolled about
the Island for some time at length we found berries
of different varieties,
Whortleberries, mulberries, wild pears, & cherries
and a few red Raspberries,
clambered up some very high rocks
and then down to a gravelly beach, where
we found some very
pretty stones. In attempting to step from one
point of rock to an-
other my foot slipped and I fell into the water, this
was my
first bath in Lake Superior. Mr. Douglass helped me out and
rang my clothes, and then made all possible speed for home.
SISCOWIT MINING . . . STARVED TO DEATH: The Siskowit Mine was across from Mott Island, named for Charlie
Mott, whose death by starvation and whose wife's survival is recounted
in Ralph D. Williams, The Honorable Peter White. Cleveland: Penton Publishing
Co., 1907. C. C. Douglass was one of the people who came to the island
with the Motts when they were hired to winter over on a mining site.
(See Introduction Note 101.)
9 Saturday
Feel the effects of my cold bath a little this morning, but
not half as
much so as I expected. think I shall be more
cautious in future.
The air seems cold enough for snow. I can
hardly keep warm by the
stove the wood is green pine and
very wet at that.
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