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III
THE LAST JOURNEY OF
THOREAU
May 11 to July 10, 1861
Although Henry Thoreau took a short trip to visit his New Bedford friend, Daniel Ricketson, a month or two after his return from Minnesota and Mackinaw, the latter was the longest and last journey of his journeying life. He was never in health afterward sufficient to enable him to bear the fatigue of his travels in the Maine forest, on Cape Cod, in Canada, at the White Mountains, or the Monadnoc region nearer Concord, and, in view from its Indian hills, Nashawtuc or Anursnac. His Minnesota journey took him farther from those dear hills than ever before; not less than three thousand five hundred miles going and re-
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