The Sugar Camp 13 The Old Academy 21 Accomac 27 Salmon Fishing 34 The Fur Trappers 46 The Canadian Recluse 52 Trout Fishing 57 Rock Creek 66 Lilly Larnard 75 Basse Fishing 83 A Virginia Barbecue 94 Death in the Wilderness 98 Rock Fishing 101 Rattlesnakes 113 The Western Pioneer 119 Pike Fishing 123 Plantation Customs 139 Fishing in General 146 Our Master in Landscape Painting 152 Poverty in the Empire City 165 The Fatal Valentine 182 Indian Legends 187 RECORDS OF A TOURIST. THE SUGAR CAMP. Among our more agreeable recollections of the wilderness are those associated with the making of _maple sugar_. Our first taste of this sweetest of woodland luxuries was received from the hands of an Indian, into whose wigwam we had wandered from our father’s dwelling on one of the Saturday afternoons of our boyhood. It was many years ago, and long before the frontier of Michigan was transformed into a flourishing member of the national confederacy. Since that time we have not only eaten our full proportion of the luxury in question, both in wigwam and cabin, but we have seen it extensively manufactured by the Indian, as well as the white man; and we now purpose to discourse upon the article itself, and upon a few incidents connected with its manufacture.