. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. aneffort to clear us of this imputation, so Stephen shouldered thetow-rope and we entered a pool about two miles long and of ex-ceptional width. This pool is situated between the twosuspension-bridges of St. Romain and Thoissey. Calm as itwas now, we remembered the second of September, 1883, theday of a great gale, that raised waves comparable to those of aHighland lake. We were out here with the Arar in that galeunder double reefs, going before the wind from Thoissey to St. A Summer Voyage. 295 Romain and beat
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. aneffort to clear us of this imputation, so Stephen shouldered thetow-rope and we entered a pool about two miles long and of ex-ceptional width. This pool is situated between the twosuspension-bridges of St. Romain and Thoissey. Calm as itwas now, we remembered the second of September, 1883, theday of a great gale, that raised waves comparable to those of aHighland lake. We were out here with the Arar in that galeunder double reefs, going before the wind from Thoissey to St. A Summer Voyage. 295 Romain and beating all the way back. This we did at Stephensrequest as a crucial test of the Avar. We found her perfectlysafe, and our central deck remained dry though the water flowedfreely over the hulls, but it is well known that wave water is un-favourable to catamarans. Notwithstanding their remarkablespeed on mere ripples they become sluggish in high waves, towhich their structure and their lightness are equally , on that occasion the A rar was handier than I expected. The Beaujolais Hills from Thoissey. her to be, and we returned to port at Thoissey without theslightest accident or Now, in this smooth lake, the Avar was moving lightly whenshe disturbed the solitude of a group of girls bathing. Theyhid themselves in the water, and let the tow-rope go over their 1 This is understated in the letter. Having returned as far as Thoissey, we con-tinued in another reach of the river against the wind, and then returned with it. Anexperiment of this kind is of the greatest value, as it leaves you entirely withoutapprehension in all winds of inferior strength. The only danger that day was thetendency to run nose under in going before the wind, which is a well-known defect ofcatamarans. 296 The Saone. heads. They were able to swim, but not with confidence orstyle. Three hundred yards lower down we came upon anumerous group of boys. All these were skilled swimmers, an
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