Date: 1848
After resting an hour with this hospitable fcdow, we departed, to prepare our encampment ere it became dark, as we intended passing the night in the swamps, under our canoe.  Near the tent we passed a fox-trap set on the top of a pole, and, on inquiring, found that this was the machine in which Old Morris caught his " Aowls."  The white owl is a very large and beautiful