The Cabin Boat Primer 



Contains Descriptions and Diagrams, Photographs and 



Chapters on the Construction, Navigation and Use 



of House- Boats for Pleasure and Profit. 



This is a very interesting and instructive book on making 

 cabin boats, canoes, row boats, etc. It teils of the various 

 streams one can trip on with a cabin 

 boat, how to equip for such a trip, what 

 to wear and eat, cost of a two months' 

 trip. It gives descriptions and diagrams, 

 photographs and chapters on construction, 

 when to float and when and where to 

 land and other useful hints for the water 

 traveler. 



This book is compiled of facts and ob- 

 servations made by the author, Mr. Ray- 

 mond S. Spears, on a skiff and shanty- 

 boat journey down the Mississippi River 

 in 1903-04. 'There are also trips and ex- 

 periences of others added to the text of 

 The Cabin Boat Primer of "How to Do 

 Things" when one goes afloat in wild 

 or tame waters. This book has up- 

 wards of 40 illustrations and diagrams 

 of building boats and canoes, contains 



THE 



CABIN BOAT 

 PRIMER 



267 pages and 32 chapters as follows: 

 I. Down the Mississippi 

 River in a Cabin 

 Boat. 



II. Trip Down the Yu- 

 kon. 



III. The Cabin Boat. 



IV. How to Build a Cabin 



Boat. 

 V. The Cabin Boat's 



Equipment. 



VI. Furnishings and Fur- 

 niture. 

 VII. Odds and Ends of 



XVIII. 

 XIX. 



VIII. 



Equipment. 

 The Skiff or 1 



Tender. 



IX. The Gasolene Launch. 

 X. What to Wear. 

 XI. Things to Eat. 

 XII. Cabin Boat Expenses. 



XIII. Cabin Boating 



Waters. 



XIV. Maps and Landing 



Lists. 



XV. Floating. 

 XVI. Floating at Night 



and in Fogs. 



XVII. Going Up Stream. 

 Weather. 



Making Fast and 

 Some Rope Hints. 

 XX. Landings. 

 XXI. Troubles. 

 XXII. Care of the Boat. 



XXIII. Ways of Making 



Money. 



XXIV. On Making Notes. 

 XXV. Land Hints. 



XXVI. Photographing. 

 XXVII. Game and Hunting. 

 XXVIII. Traps and Trapping. 

 XXIX. Fish and Fishing. 

 XXX. Amusements Books. 

 XXXI. Trapper's Canoe. 

 XXXII. A Cabin Boat Coon 

 Hunt. 



This book is handsomely bound in cloth, size 5x7 inches and 



printed on good paper. 

 Price, Postpaid, Cloth bound, $1.25 



A. R. HARDING, Pub., 75 N. Ohio Ave., Columbus, O. 



