. A canoe trip; or, A lark on the water. nd theconviction that as a manly, dignified and healthful recrea-tion it is bound to attain a ]3ermanent popularity, as wellas by letters from many persons interested in the subject,the writer has been induced to revise the sketches and offer them in book form. F. IL S. Detroit, November 18S0. CHAPTER I. Tis ever commonThat men are merriest when they are from home. —Shakspeare, THE CANOE EQUIPMENT — INCIDENTS OP YOTAGE DOWN THE ST. CLAIR RIVER ADVENTURE WITH INDIANS— A FISH STORY. ECIDEDLY the canoefever is insid-ious. Ever since reading McGregorsexploi
. A canoe trip; or, A lark on the water. nd theconviction that as a manly, dignified and healthful recrea-tion it is bound to attain a ]3ermanent popularity, as wellas by letters from many persons interested in the subject,the writer has been induced to revise the sketches and offer them in book form. F. IL S. Detroit, November 18S0. CHAPTER I. Tis ever commonThat men are merriest when they are from home. —Shakspeare, THE CANOE EQUIPMENT — INCIDENTS OP YOTAGE DOWN THE ST. CLAIR RIVER ADVENTURE WITH INDIANS— A FISH STORY. ECIDEDLY the canoefever is insid-ious. Ever since reading McGregorsexploits in the canoe, Rob Roy, asmall boat capable of being carried inan emergency—arranged to be slept inand easily propelled—in which exten-sive journeys had been made through-out Europe and the East, I have beenpossessed with the idea of making atrip in a cruising canoe. Canoeing has become quite the thingin England and is rapidly becomingpopular in this country, so much sothat the principal cities now boast their canoe clubs. I. 8 BEAUTY OF THE PADDLE. bought a Racine veneer canoe, weight sixty pounds, with its equipments, viz., a double-bladed paddle, jointed; a mast, also jointed; a sail, combined life preserver, cushion and mattress, and without formality it was dubbed Ulysses, after That sagacious manWho, having overthrown the sacred townOf Ilium, wandered far, and visitedThe capitals of many nations, learnedThe customs of their dwellers, and enduredGreat suffering on the deep. It contained apparatus for steering with the feet, andwater and air-tight compartments in which to stow theoutfit. Although it is claimed that oars are more effective,the beauty of the paddle as a means of locomotion is thatthe navigator faces the way he is going, and paddling isfar less of an exertion than rowing. Twenty miles a daycan be accomplished without much fatigue, even by a per-son unaccustomed to the exercise, and then the little sail,with a favoring wind, will send the canoe alon
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