We carried our guns, with provisions in our knapsacks to last us for a day, although we expected to kill more game than we should want.  As we wished to make a long excursion, we started at daybreak; that is to say, Reuben, Quambo, and I, with the dogs.  Reuben had a great desire to see a beaver settlement which I had once visited when we first came into that part of the country; and I thought that I could find my way to it. Quambo amused us, as we walked along, with all sorts of tales about beavers, raccoons, opossums, bears, and other animals, with the habits of which he was well acquainted.