July 21 Sunday – Sam’s notebook:

July 21 ’95. (Sunday.) The “Islander.” This is merely a ferry-boat — 7 ½ mile course, to Mackinac Island. Yet it is neat, nice, comfortable, convenient — neither of those words can be applied to any channel boat, those damned offal-scows [NB 35 TS 13].

From J.B. Pond’s diary:

“Mark” and I left Petoskey for Mackinac at 5:30 this morning, where we joined the ladies and waited five hours on the dock for S.S. Northwest to take us to Duluth. It was severe on the poor man, but he was heroic and silent all the way. He has not tasted food since the dinner on the Faxton Friday [Eccentricities of Genius 204].

The Petoskey Daily Resorter’s July 21 “interview” angered Sam. He then wrote a note to J.B. Pond.

This is too bad. Here for the first time since I started from the east language is manufactured for me. I have said not a single word about Dr. Hall’s paper. I don’t like being used as a waste pipe for the delivery of another man’s bile [MTP; Gaw 26].

Note: it’s not clear why Sam wanted this in writing, since he was traveling with Pond, unless he directed it to be given to the newspaper in question, or perhaps another paper. Also, there was no repeat performance in Petoskey as shown on the circular (see Lorch p.189).

Sam’s notebook entry of July 22 reveals they boarded the steamer North West this afternoon; he noted that an “automatic electric fog-whistle” in the pilot house ran “by clockwork, which makes its own record on a slip of paper & is better evidence in court than a man’s” [NB 35 TS 13-4].