day. The next year he was Lovewell's lieutenant at Pigewacket, but that time he left his bones in the wilderness.
Gentle river, gentle river,
Lo, thy streams are stained with gore,
Many a brave and noble captain
Floats along thy willowed shore;
All beside thy limpid waters,
All beside thy sands so bright,
Indian chiefs and Christian warriors
Joined in fierce and mortal fight.
Tuesday, September 3, is mostly omitted from this fragment of a journal; and there was not much to record on the Merrimac; for in the volume Thoreau goes out of his way, both in time and space, to record a journey taken five years later, to meet his friend Channing in 1844 (who had come up from New York, and awaited Thoreau at the foot of the Berkshire mountain, Saddleback, where the Concord pilgrim had passed the night). This journey Thoreau, in The Week, breaks into two parts, printing the last first, near the beginning of his "Tuesday," where it runs on for fourteen pages. Then after
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