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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Dec. 3, 1885- 



Dished him by Outwater were too much for the old man. Johason, 

 like others of the veterans of the trigger, we Imajrlne, have had their 

 day. Their record is erood. but they must give way to younger men. 

 Outwatei'. as the score shows, shot in excellent iovm John Kyan 

 was chosen iuope for Johnson and J . J. Maher for Outwater, with 

 Sam Castle as rpfpi-ep. Outwater is a member of the J. C. H. G. C, 

 «nd this is another triumph for this crack club. 



J H Outwater 1 tKnUIOOllllOillll 11010— 19 



Miles Jolinson OOOlOOlllOOOTKKilOlOlOIlO-ll 



JaoobstAff. 



NAraONAL Ova Association TbcBTrAMmrs.— Special Notice.— Mem- 

 bers desirous of organizing tournaments in their vicinity, under the 

 auspices of the Association, are requested to notify the undersigned. 

 All the expenses of the same will be paid by us. Make your arrange- 

 ments for 1886. We propose to establish a circuit of tournaments 

 annually. Claim your dates now. General oflSce and headquarters, 

 Macon, G a.— Matt R. Frkkman, Vice-President and General Manager; 

 F. C. Ethfidge, Secretary, Macon, Ga. Send 10 cents for hand book 

 oontainmg rules, constitution, etc. "Faiily started and its future 

 depends entirely upon the manner in which the sportsmen throughout 

 the country respond."-C. M. Stakk, April 18, 1886.— ^du. 



Address all comniunications to the JTorest und Stream Jr^bli$7i- 

 tng Co. 



Canoeists are invited to send us notes and full reports of cruises, 

 club meets, information about canoeable waters, and other comnm- 

 nication^ of interest. 



Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

 Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc , of 

 their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 

 reports of the same. Canoeists and all interestea in canoeing are 

 requested to forwani to Fokest and Stream their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, laaps, and information couceruing their local waters, 

 drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 

 to the sport. 



hirplihg 8t«p and falling arm forbid the double blade and light canoe. 

 I am not, 1 never shall be, a long cruiser in anv sense, tmless in the 

 matter of long time spent on short but wide cruise?, I have never 

 started out for a long cruise from one point to ayiother without 

 thitikirg of a roguish uncle, who was wont to flatter mo itilo running 

 around a 20 acre lot at my be^t speed, just to see how quick I could 

 do it. And my long cruises ahvavs began to peter out in the first 100 

 miles or less, if I happened to strike a model camping spot. It took 

 nie many .v eax.s to learn— but I did learn at last— this lesson: Hunt 

 for fairy spots and bright waters. Eschew mud, marsh and saw 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



SECRFTARY— Dr. 0, A. Neid6. Sehuylerville, N. Y. Candidates for 

 membersbip mustiorward theirnames. with $3 for initiation fee 

 and first year's dues, to the secretary, who will present names to the 

 Ihe executive committee. Money sh©uld be sent bj' registered letter 

 or money order. 



LIGHT CANOES AND THEIR USES. 



THE least among canoeists to "Seneca." The dexter pectoral of 

 camp-ma-tical brotherhood and forest fraternity, to thee, oh, 

 "Seneca!" 



•'I do not know yon, and may never know 

 Your face. Bat you have acted, on the whole. 

 Most nobly; and 1 own it from my soul." 



And you will catch it. You have said some things that I have been 

 aching to say ever smce the improved canoes came to the front; hut 

 1 dared not. I seemed to remember with much distinctness a lesson 

 that I learned more than fifty years ago in connection with a. first- 

 class hornet's nest. It was in early September, and the third brood 

 of hornets had attained to the proper age for military duty. They 

 had worked on that fortification until it was as large as a halt-bushel 

 basket: and, having in my mmd's eye a Sunday school lesson wherein 

 a big PhiUstine and a Ughi-weight Israelite figured conspicuously, 1 

 became possessed with a burning desire to storm that paper fort with 

 smooth pebbles from the brook: and 1 did it. Selecting a scriptural 

 ."ftock of pebbles I intrenched myself behind a clump of alders thu-ty 

 feet distant and tried the initial shot, just to get the range. I got it 

 the first time Owmg to a lack of initial velocity the trajectory was 

 a trifle high, perhaps; but the aim was perfect. The shot tooic the 

 fort right in the bulge, and as the soft crash of mashed paper struck 

 my boyish ear, the retirnj shot hit ray fool eye and I went over back- 

 ward with pain and astonishment. Their practice was good and their 

 shots came nearly point blank. I immersed myself hastily in the 

 nearest swamp, swinging an old straw hat until the rim fetched 

 away. Then i hurriecily broke a bush for each hand, jumped into 

 the hrook, sat down with the water up to my neck, and fought it out 

 on that line. When I emerged on the other side of the swamp, hold- 

 ing up one- eyehd to see the trail, I felt that I had ratherdone a brave 

 thing ; and if 1 coidd have got into a hollow log or under a haystack— 

 1 wouldn't have done it. My mother, who was apt to make remarks, 

 observed that I didn't look much Uke the clean faced little boy she 

 bad started off to school that morning. How should I, with one cheek 

 puffed out and the other trying to get under my off ear, and both eyes 

 swelled shut? But I felt that when it came to solid wisdom— practical 

 knowledge, as it were— I could discount the schoolmarra; and I got 

 even. 



When the warriors had repaired damages, making their fortress as 

 good as new, with only an open sally port at the lower end for ingress, 

 and egress, I stole on them at night, plugged the sally port with a 

 corncob, cut the whole business loose and simk it iu tnree feet of 

 water, when, after soaking a day or two, it was taken and hung up in 

 the sun to dry. The outside walls made a season's supply of excellent 

 wadding for the old flmt lock, and I sold the inside works, consisthig 

 of larvae, cells, black wax, fixtures, etc., to an Indian doctor for fifty 

 cents. The doctor used the stuff to cure gravel. He made a tjlack 

 looking infusion with it which his patients drank daily, and lie 

 eflrected cures where the regulars have failed. I mention this because 

 I have since been able to relieve some eases of intense suffering by 

 the same simple remedy. This is digression. The moral is: Don't 

 stone hornets. 



I am not going to intimate that the members of the A. C. A. and the 

 army of gentlemanly fellows who own and cruise the modem "paddle- 

 able sailing canoe" are hornets, by no manner of means. But I 

 reckon they are a safe crowd to let alone. They can, bless them, 

 handle the pen as well as the paddle, and are about as intelligent, 

 genial, and self-reliant as any class of men I happen to know. Wnen 

 I see the lateen, batten lug or double blade bearing down on me I 

 know I am going to meet a gentleman, and 1 am as much interested 

 in his complicated sailing crafr as heisin the simplehttle open canoe. 

 When be offers me his watch key for an anchor and a few yards of 

 fine Imen line by way of cable, I take it as complimentary, and can 

 hardly reciprocate by admirin\r his beautiful craft. ButI do not call 

 her a'canoe. She is very oanoey in form, however, and an elegant 

 means of enjoyment and healthful recreation; but not, jjer se, a 

 canoe. The canoe, at least to the eye of an old woodsman, must be 

 alike at both stems, with no mdder, no cleats, sheets, tabernacle, or 

 centerhoard, and no masts or sails. The canoe, pure and simple, as 

 I recognize it, is the birch, or well-made dugout, and the kyak, with 

 canoes of other make and material which are mainly modeled on 



And here comes Forest and Stream, two numbers which have 

 been delaj^ed; and something of what 1 was gomg to say is ah-eady 

 said in good shape bv better men. Only, friend "Seneca," as you 

 have pu.shed me to the front, I want to "raise myiian'an' tell my 

 crack afore them a.' " I am in good company, but get a rap over 

 the knuckles all the same. Perhaps I am one of the best known of 

 American canoeists. I didn't know it. And the only signihcauce o.t 

 placing me in the trio with Dr. Neide and H. N. Bishop is the tact 

 that as a trio we represent the extremes of canoeing. My cruises 

 are never long, measm-ed by miles, but are rather beamy at times, 

 breadth rather than lengtli. The other two getitlemen cruise long 

 distances by sail, in a craft not easily carried: and they set- m to take 

 pride m a cruise according to the distance gone over between two 

 given points. My favorite cruiser weighs lOlhs. I go by the double- 

 blade, or, in fishing and shooting, the Uttle 6-ouDce single blade, and 

 the distance made in a three or six month's cruise does not amount 

 toafacior with me. , ^ •, ^ f 



But the pleasant, unfrequented, beautiful campmg spots That 1 

 find whi-re the sueakbox and heavy canoe cannot come. The blight, 

 unmariv'pd streams, the cool, gm-gllng springs, the blessed calm of 

 lonely places, where the bngbt-eyed, wary wood folk come almost 

 to your feet as you sit quietly smokmg; where the arch rascal man 

 does not intrude; where one may camp for months without seeing a 

 human face or hearing the buzz of civilized racket; this and these 

 we faotoj'B that will remain photographed on memory when the 



"Seneca," "Surge" and "Jersey Blue" each and all write from 

 different standpoints, and each speaks ably. And whf n the latter 

 says, "'Nessmuk' is content to cruise in the moat primiirive form of 

 canoe, and has never made the least improvement in it," I agree 

 with him cordially— as to "form of canoe." To me, my first Mic Mae 

 bircb, which I paddled forty-five years ago, was so perfect, so satis- 

 factory in every respect, save weight, that it never entered my mind 

 to attempt any improvement. She was a irifle heavy on me over the 

 carries, and it sometimes occurred to me that her weight could be 

 reduced nearly one htlf without impairing her ability I made 

 several canoes that were meant to be verv light, but they were all 

 too heavy, and I finally sent an order to a well known builder for a 

 cedar canoe to weigh not over 20 pounds, and as much lighter as he 

 could make her with due regard to strength. She came to hand 

 weighing just 17 pounds 13?^ ounces; she was staunch and able to 

 carry a man of 200 pounds with hetter trim than with my light 

 weight. The next season I ordered another canoe to weigh as near 

 as might he l.'j pounds. She was to be ,"ix inches longer than the 

 Nessniuk. and a greater can-ying capacity. The result was the Susan 

 Kipper, weighing just 1(5 pounds And a summer's cruise in the 

 North Woods convinced me that a 10-pouud eanoe could be made that 

 would prove a com fortaoie cruiser for a fight-weight of 115 pounds 

 or less. This resulted in the Sairy Gamp, weighing just 10% pounds, 

 and wh'ch proved sufficient for my weiirht with 20 pounds of dufiip, 

 I crui»ed in her for some three months in the Northern Wilderness of 

 New York, taking her through the Fulton Chain, Raquette Lake, 

 Forked Lake, Long Lake, Raqnette River. Spect-icle Pond, etc , to 

 Paul Smith's on the lower s^t. Regis, and back to the Forge House by 

 a somewhat dift'erent route, finding her very steady and well behaved 

 on rough water, but rather smiJl for carrying a gun in addition to 

 rod. blanket, knapsack and raiiors. I brought hei" home to Northern 

 Pennsylvania, sent her to New ^ovk without protection, and then 

 she went to her builder at Canton, who sent her to the New Orleans 

 Exposition, and— I don't know where she is now, but the last I heard 

 of her she was staunch and tight 



My next canoe was the Bucktall, built on dimensions thai I thought 

 nearly right for the average open cruiser, and with no special at- 

 tempt at lightness, save that her weight was to fall under 35 pounds. 

 Her ribs of red elm were only lin. apart, her upper streaks were 

 mahogany, and she was strongly made every way. As an open 34- 

 pound caiioe I do not see how she can bo improved; and she is able 

 and lifoly with a freight of 225 pounds, which trims her about right. 

 My last eanoe, the little Rushton, reached The last Junfe, and I have 

 come to like her best of all. 1 scarcely float the Bucktail once a 

 month, flndiue: the little one quite as steady when I am once seated, 

 more easily propelled, and no more ti'ouble to carry than a heavy 

 umbrella. With her I can find a good many sunny spots that'l 

 should never see within a 35-pound canoe And though she is a little 

 skittish under a heavily loaded 12 bore, I have managed to scuffle 

 along with her for the last four months with only one ducking. Too 

 small for outside cruising, tlioiigh I have cruised her scores of miles 

 mside the kevs, and have also ti ie.l ner up the open coast as far as 

 the mouth of the Cootio. But it wa.^ exhausting to watch every wave 

 and lift her over with the broad blade just in the nick of time, let 

 alone that 1 got washed and driven ashore in a stiff breeze. In cruis- 

 ing on ttie Gulf coast 1 judge the Barnegat cruiser to be the boat. ■ 



And I protest against calling McGregor or anv modern man the 

 father of canoeing. Mr Lo of th.; birch or Nitchika of the kyak 

 would have a fairer claim to that title. But they aie too recent. If 

 I knew the fellow who. with stone axe and the aid of fire, fashioned 

 the first respectable dug-out. I could go near to name the "father of 

 canoeing." As for the double blade, I believe that vo be pre-historio. 



On reflection, lam disposed to amend my plea. > 



If 1 have done sometoing to demonstrate that the open cruising 

 canoe can be reduced from one-tbird to one-half in weight and yet 

 retain all needful capacity for the average canoeist, it is an improve- 

 ment, and in the right direction. It will aid many a genuine lover of 

 nature and true canoeist in visiting unnoted and interesting spot^ 

 where a heavy canoe would hardly go. And are there not scores of 

 canoeists who are onl.y preven ted from seeking these lonely, unnoted 

 groimds by the weight of their canoe:. !^ 



Ten miles southeast from this place is the new town of Keystone, 

 containing, in a square of six miles, some eighty lakes, by actual 

 survey. Some of these are small and the largest is only four miles 

 long, but they abound in trout, black ba^s, bream, goggle-eyed 

 perch and other fi eih- water fish, while the surroimdmg forest aft'ords 

 exceUent shooting. Many of these lak^s are connected by inlets and 

 outlets, navigable for small boats, and the waters are described as 

 wonderfulli' clear, with mo-tly high, dry, sandy banks. The canoe 

 of the white man has never" floated on these lakes, and a sailing 

 canoe would hardly be available there. But a ligni open canoe 

 "would find plenty of work for an entire season in exploring a score of 

 tnem, and would not such a cruise be far more interesting than 

 thousands of miles hurried over along the naekneyed highways of 

 commerce? I hope to try it before many days. 



I have no claim to be ranked among the three best known canoe- 

 ists of the land. Perhaps, in the large army of American canoeists, 

 I may be accorded honorable place on the left flank of the rear rank, 

 as oiie who for more than fifty years remained stubbornly loyal to 

 the light open canoe and double blade. « Nes.smttkl, 



Oak and Pine Camp, Oct. 29. 



snug, tight little wall tent ad lib., standing 614ft. high at ridge pole , 

 5ft. deep from front to back, and rf t. long. We used this tent in this 

 shape when the ground permitted it; on other occasions we slept m 

 the boats. A grub box, 12xlC'in,, containing tin cans for various 

 provisions, as well as canisters of coffee, tea, salt, pepper, etc.. and 

 plemyof room for our knives, forks, spoons, etc. ; a dozen muslsn 

 sacks of various size for potatoes, onions, eggs and other sundries: 

 a sheet iron camp stove, the usual supply of tinware and cookiDg 

 utensils; tools, such as saw. hatchet, nails, screws, etc., completed 

 our outfit, not forgetting to mention a plentiful supply of bljinkefcs 

 and rubber sheets. Also lat^e rubber navy bag for clothing, etc. 



FLORIDA CANOE HEADQUARTERS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The fleet of canoes and other small cruising boats from the North 

 in e'lorida waters this winter is going to be larger than ever before. 

 What an interesting rendezvous it would be if there could be a gen- 

 eral gathering of them sometime in the course of the winter on some 

 salt water cruising ground chosen with a view to the convenience of 

 the greatest number— say somewhere on the Halifax or Indian 

 rivers. There need he no organization nor anything to beget ex- 

 pense, but merely a sort of swarming of the mosquito fleet as though 

 brought together by converging winds and tides. There have al- 

 ready arrived in Florida several men whose namas are widely known 

 through their devotion to this sort of recreation, and to them 1 com- 

 mend this suggestion. 



1 have been knocking around on the St. Johns and its tributaries 

 for more than a year in a ISJ.^ feet sharpie, and if I haven't become 

 an old salt 1 can modestly claim to be at least an old syrup— or there 

 LS no vu'tue m the characteristic color of these waters. My sharpie 

 has been to me all that a ship could have been, and I have cruised in 

 her when the weather has been so hot I couldn't hold my hand on the 

 deck outside the awning, and when it has been so cold I had to 

 anchor and turn in to keep warm, A rendezvous on the Indian River 

 or the Halifax would be rather out of the way for those of us on tue 

 St. Johns, but I for one would be there even if I had to sail the 

 sharpie acro-s country some morning on a heavy dew, "yours, 

 afloat, Waip. 



Green Cove Springs, Fla , Nov. 23. 



BRITISH CANOEING. 



FOR a long time past the state of canoeing in England has been 

 far from encouraging, and not what might be expected in tt^e 

 birth place of the sport. With one large and powerful club to advance 

 its interests, besides smafler ones in various places, it ha-s gradually 

 dwindled down to a few sailing and paddUng races between half 

 a dozen men, while cruising has seen lost sigtit of entirely as a club 

 feature. 



The smaller clubs and some individuals still keep the sport alive 

 outside of London . but it has made no progress for some years, in 

 fact, has retrograded. Races and entries are few, cruising is neglected, 

 little is said about canoeing, and the sport is reaUy iii a deplorable 

 condition. One reason of this seems to be that under the present 

 rules a class of canoes has been developed that are costly, cumber- 

 some, unfitted for cruising, and only suitable for racing, while the 

 races are virtually limited to a few who have time and money to 

 perfect these boats. The country c'ubs have various rules and 06 its 

 of more or less merit, but there is a total lack of unity and concerted 

 action among tham that hinders tke growth of the sport. The pro- 

 gress made in America shows what the-e may accomplish; and what 

 is possible here, with a sport that was litile known but unpopular at 

 oa-'- time, shows what similar means might effect in a country where 

 outdoor, and especially aquatic sports, have always been held m hieli 

 estimation and where the spore originated and was once firmly es- 

 tablished. 



Complaints have been heard lately from many of the condition of 

 British canoeing and its remedy, and it has been proposed to form an 

 association similar to the A. C, A, AVhat is needed is a general re- 

 vival, which can best be effecced, as our experience has proved, by 

 concerted action on the part of aU clubs and individuals, in the hold- 

 ing of a meet at which an asso-'iation can be forni'id and common 

 rules adopted. Such a meet would brmg together men from different 

 localities, it would give an opportunity for trials of tueir boats, and 

 it would arouse a spirit of competition which now seems wholly 

 lacking. A healthy spirit of rivahy, not merely between club mem- 

 bers but between the various clubs, has proved here a most impor- 

 tant factor in the improvement of boats and rigs, and also of skill in 

 handling; but this feature is entirely absent from English canoeing. 



Another important point is the alteration of the rules, not merely 

 to allow but to actively encourage a more popular class than the first?^ 

 class U. C. 0. canoes; one that will be open to the average canoeist 

 and not merely to the finished expert. A s'^en in this direction will 

 soon ne made by a proposal lo adopt the rules of the A. C. A. that 

 will be presented at the general meeting of the R. C. C, together 

 with restrictions on sails, hoards and fittings. Curiously enough 

 our rules were taken directly from the Royal C. C; but the fric- 

 tion of hard racing for five seasons has eliminated many of the 

 objectionable points and hitroduced others, favoring the lighter 

 boats. We hope this year that the energies of British canoeists will 

 De concentrated on a visil to our camp and that what they see there 

 will aid and encourage them in the formation of a similar association 

 that will once more put canoeing on a proper footing in the waters 

 where it first found birth. 



TWO AMATEUR CANOES. 



ASTRAY Racine catalogue decided me in favor of a modern cruis- 

 ing canoe, but as the beauty and convenience of the Racine 

 canoes tand, as I afterward found, of almost all good canoes) were 

 only equalled by the altitude of the prices askedfor them, the eanoe 

 project seemed hopeless until I finally hit upon the idea of building 

 my own canoes, which I finally did from plan* by Mr. Stephens, mod- 

 ified somewhat with a view to Che work required of them, and very 

 satisfactory canoes they proved to be, answeiing the purpose admir 

 ably. 



As our outfit was unusually complete and satisfactory, perhaps an 

 extended description of it might be of raterest. The Belle was the 

 Frankie of last year's Shenandoah experience, a canvas canoe rebuilt 

 and improved. Her dimensions are: Length, 14ft. ; beam. 30in. ; and 

 she has an unusually broad, flat floor, her midship section being quite 

 like that of the Herald canoe. She is, in consequence, remarkably 

 stiff, but paddles a little heavy. Her well is octagonal iu shape, Sf t. 

 long and SOin. wide, tapering at each end to 14in., and reduced by 

 hatches at each end to a length of 4ft. She was thus built at D.'s 

 request with a view to his utilizing her for future boating purposes 

 in company with his best girl, and, as subsequent experience proved, 

 •'carried double" very nicely and safely. 



The Frankie is 14ft. long, breadth 2f}in., and her model is quite like 

 the plans as prepared by Mr, Stephens, except that she is 9in, deep 

 (as is the Belle also) at the gunwale, and l2iu, deep in the middle, 

 and has more sheer. The well is square, 4ft, long, and iSin. wide, 

 the covermg to the well is made of two hatches, as illustrated in the 

 Canoi-fet f or May, 1883, in the article on hatches, by Mr. Tredwen, 

 differing from iiis iu being covered with heavy musun oiled and 

 painted, instead of cedar, and fastening to the front of coaming tjy 

 leather str 1 ps buitoning over large round-headed screws, instead of 

 iron hinges. The muslin, after covering both pieces of the hatch, 

 continuing aft far enough to cover the entire well, and tuck up under 

 the waist of the crew, and I do not believe it possible to get up a 

 simpler, better or more perfect hatch or apron for well covering. 



The Belle was, of course, similarly suppUed, her apron differing a 

 little in construction so as to fit the hatches over her tapermg ends. 

 The motive power of the Belle was the same 7ft, paddle. I paid thirty 

 cents for a North River last year, finished up a little neater and finer, 

 while the Frankie was driven by a magnificent 9ft, paddle, which I 

 took the earliest opportunity of exchanging with the captain of tlie 

 Belle for his smaller and lighter 7Ii., which answered my purpose 

 much better. Both boats carried a lateen danciy sail, which, when a 

 sail could be used, was stepped forward in place of a mainsail. As 

 might be expected iu iulaud cruisiug, we had very little use for them 

 during the trip, and, when used, they answered our purpose as well 

 as a larger sail, and possessed the advantage at all other times of 

 taking up much less room than a mainsail, they were buttoned along- 

 side the well just above the gunwale on deck with light leather straps. 



The Frankie carried a light and pretty Uttle Mohican tent, while 

 the BeUe carried the larger tent used by me last year, and illustrated 

 iu the Canoeist tor April, 1885. In the absence of masts the Frankie 

 tent was supported the same as was the Belle's, on notched standards 

 which rested on each side of the gunwale, forward and aft of the 

 well and outside the tent (the Belle's standards being inside). An 

 esoetdiugly bandy feature of the Belle'.-i tent was the fact that it 

 could be readily converted into an ordinary wall tent by means of a 

 couple of lighc^bamboo tent poles. 6i^ft, long, on which it was erected 

 on the ground instead of over thi; iioat. When thus erected it stood 

 3ft off tue ground all around at the bottom; a strip of tentmg Ztt. 

 wide was then buttoned all ai ound inside the lower edges of the tent 

 by means of a simple system of loops and buttons, thus formmg a 

 wall which, after being fastened to stakes at the corners, gave ns a 



A BOAT CRUISE DOWN THE ST. LAWRENCE. 



FRIDAY, Aug. 7. Got under way about 11 o'clock with a very light 

 south wind, and arrived at Phoenix at 4 P. M. Here we had to 

 change river for canal, and did not arrive at Oswego until 5 A. M.. 

 Aug. 8. 



Aug. 8. After a good brealcfast we started out across the lake with 

 a light N.E. wind which soon swung around to the north, and at last 

 died away and we had to pull to the nearest shore, which was near 

 Port Ontario. 



Aug. 9. After a hasty breakfast we started off with a good wind 

 from the S.S.W. At the Sackett's Harbor Light, all the inhabitants 

 turned out, and handkerchiefs were waved; then we surveyed each 

 other with our glasses, waved adieu and went on to Cape Vmcent, 

 where we arrived about 4 P, M., in the middle of a good shower. 

 After tryhig m vain to send a telegram home of om- safe arrival, we 

 struck out again and made camp on the island that lies close to the 

 shore just beyond Carleton Island. 



Aug. 10. Visited Clayton, Round Island, Thousand Island Park, 

 criused around the islands in Alexandria Bay and camped on Hill 

 Island, just at the entrance of the Lake of the Isles. Here we had our 

 first and last experience with mosqmtoes, who seemed to be worseji^ 

 a thick smudge than out of it, 



Aug. 11. Spent all the forenoon with Prof. North, at Westminster 

 Park, and about 2 o'clock started on the north of Grenadier Island, 

 and camped off Ch'ppawa Point. 



Aug. 12. Got a good start at 7 A. M., and after a splendid two hours' 

 run with a west wind arrived at Brockville. We stopped here and 

 wandered around the town which impressed us as being the finest 

 place which we saw. Especially noticeable wt^re the jewelry stores 

 and stores for the sale of the images, etc., for the use of Catholic 

 churches. Made saU again at 11 A. M. and G o'clock found us in 

 Ogdensburgh. Here we replenished our stock of provisions and 

 struck camp on an island about half a mile down the river. 



Aug. 13 was a day which we wiU not be hable 10 forget, as the one 

 of our fii'st experience in running rapids. We left; camp about 6.-80 

 and after an hour's run struck our first rapid. After landing and 

 looking them over we concluded to try them. Our feelings and 

 caution at these rapids was amusing. When we saw how easy it was 

 we did not stop at the others but went right anead. Fortunately we 

 took the raft channel at the Long Sault and got through them with 

 only half a boatful of water. Aj-rived at Cornwall we were informed 

 that we were the second boating party which had run the rapids 

 successfully this season, and that the best riverman in that section 

 had been drowned in trying it. If any one of the readers of Forest 

 AND Stream can beat our accord of runnmg the Long Sault in a 15ft. 

 open boat, I should be glad to hear from them. 



We had had enough of rapid runnmg for one day, and took the 

 steamer Algerian for Montreal, where we arrived at 9 A. M the follow- 

 ing morning, the steamer being obliged to lay at C otea'i all night on 

 account of the darkness. After stayhig in Montreal about five hours 

 we again set sail, and for that afternoon and nearly all the next day 

 cruised through the most uninviting comitry imaginable. A continu- 

 ou^^ flat country, with its one-story houses and tbatched-roofed barns, 

 and when we reached Sorel we were, to say the least, glad. But we 

 werenoc yet out of French land, nor did we gt-t avyay from it until 

 we readied the border, and never did "My Country" ring with more 

 fervor than when we entered Lake Champlain at Rouse's Point. 



Our cruise on this lake was the most pleasant of all. Good camping 

 plae<='S are in abundance and the scenery is grand. But everything 

 mnst have an end, even a cruise, and on Monday, Aug. 24, we were 

 obh'ged to snip for home from Fort Ticonderaga, our time being up, 

 and hoping at some future time we might be able to complete oui' 

 cruise, going through Lake George and down the upper Hudson. 



.lUANlTA, 



THE A, C. A. CUP.-Subseriptions of $1 each may be sent to Mr" 

 Wm. Whifclock, 37 and 39 West Twenty-seoond street. New York, 

 ch airmail of the committee. 



