560 DUCK SHOOTING. 



waterways of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michi- 

 gan are described and figured below, substantially 

 from an article which appeared in Forest and Stream 

 in the year 1890. 



There are a number of boats which may claim the 

 old Indian birch in their ancestry. Some of the duck 

 shooters of Canada use a "Rice Lake canoe," which is 

 near about a white man's canoe, without the teeteriness 

 and skittishness of the birch, though a lighter goer 



NEE-PE-NAUK BOAT. 



among the rushes. Something like a birch is the idea 

 of the Nee-pe-nauk boat, used by the Chicago club men 

 on the Northern Fox River. 



This is a smooth-skinned boat, and the skin. is made 

 by screwing one longitudinal piece directly upon an- 

 other, the boat being formed upon a mold. There are 

 no ribs in the boat, and no braces except under the deck, 

 fore and aft of the cockpit. The deck is light, and the 

 cockpit ample for paddling, which is the method of pro- 



