direction; have two or three narrow shaves of limbs falling on tents; expecting the crowd out every hour. Sept 26th. No sign of the party surely they will be here today; but the rain may have stopped them it is very wet today. Sept 27th. The rain has caused the lake to rise 3 ft consequently making us move all our tents; it is still raining hard & no sign of the party. Sept 28th. Fine today; making things ready for the party; cooking lots of grub for them. Sept 29th. At last they arrive; one man with a black eye thro effect of someone's knuckles. we are sent to get extra boats from Union. Sept 30th. Three of us start back in separate boats and have a race against a hard wind; one man get disabled losing one of his row locks so I take him in tow part of the way trying to tack with the sail.