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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: [1918 c1900-[1918]] (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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in torrents. The sheer weight of pound- ing water threatened to tear our tent in shreds, but the silk had withstood tropical storms of equal violence and we spent a comfortable night when the roar outside had ceased. The next morning the stream was almost in our camp, which the guides had said was well be- yond the reach of summer freshets. All day the water rose, but we had carried our food and blankets to higher ground and for a week remained in an open camp a few hundred yards away. It was useless to think of work upon the streams or ponds for at least a fort- night, because the woods were so soaked with water that the deer had moved to higher ground. We hunted diligently but the never-ceasing rain was a serious handicap and not until mid-August did I shoot a buck suitable for the group; a doe and fawn were secured a week later. It was a labor of love to select a spot for the background of the group, for almost any curve of the stream was a picture in itself. With Mr. Courtenay Brandreth who had volunteered to make the field painting, we paddled up and down discussing the possibilities of every portion and, as the artist, he finally selected an open stretch, where on one side the alders gave place to a grassy meadow with the blue summit of Albany mountain far in the distance. ^ At this very spot a few days later as the canoe slipped around the curve, we surprised three does feeding in the stream and a fourth upon the bank. For a moment they stared at us but, as the camera began to whir, in great leaps they dashed for the friendly cover of the alders only to stop a few yards within the forest to blow and stamp in protest at the in- terruption of their breakfast. September was ushered in by the dry, hot weather we had hoped for all sum- mer — just when our work had been com- pleted and it was time to start for home.
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Doe, startled by the sound of the camera, plunging frantically into the forest. (From motion-picture film] 413

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