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fasten it with tacks; that is lubber’s work, bad sea¬ 
manship. Use 'a sailor’s palm and needle and the her¬ 
ring bone stitch, the same a baseball is sewed with. 
The use of this leather is to stop the sound of touch¬ 
ing the side. It makes everything softer; and that is 
what a canoe is supposed to be; soft, sliding, gliding, 
soundless, like the moccasined foot of the Indian still 
hunter in the woods. 
I have had fine sport in Florida with these muffled 
paddles. You can go close to all sorts of birds and 
animals along a stream and study them, especially 
if you do not change your stroke. Perfect silence and 
the same motion always repeated disarm their sus¬ 
picions in a most curious way. But make the slight¬ 
est change in motion even in your hand, or move your 
position and they are off like a flash. After I adopted 
the muffled paddles, I was greatly delighted to find 
myself, or rather the bow of the canoe, not infre¬ 
quently within 10 or 15 feet of a big alligator lying on 
the bank with his little black eye watching me for 
the slightest suspicious change or sound. They are 
grand beasts when you see them in that way, and 
their glint and coloring and that black eye are never 
the same in captivity. And then make a change of 
motion and see that rush and plunge into the water. 
It is better sport than killing them. They are becom¬ 
ing scarce; and I do not like to shoot anything stand¬ 
ing still. 
I once paddled suddenly upon an otter in the water; 
and for a few seconds before he realized the situa¬ 
tion, he was his natural wild self. I shall never for¬ 
get his expression and attitude. It was the incarna¬ 
tion of the infinite joy of swimming. I do not know 
that I am a transcendentalist. But if there is such 
a thing in the universe as the abstract infinitude of 
swimming joy, I saw it concentrated before me for a 
brief moment. We are all descended I suppose from 
creatures that a million years ago swam for millions 
of years; and possibly the latest recollection of those 
old days may have been brought back to me in a 
flash. At any rate I do not see why everybody is 
trying to kill off the otters. The dear American people 
seem determined to exterminate them from the whole 
continent. I do not see why they should not be 
preserved and encouraged so that the dear people could 
have the pleasure of watching them at their play. 
Single hand canoeing with your pointer or setter dog. 
is good fun. They enjoy it immensely, especially in 
Florida where they can watch the wild life along 
the shore. They will study it in such a comically in¬ 
terested way that I have often broken the silence by 
laughing. I once had a setter who seemed to think 
that he could see the fish deep down in the clear water 
better if he got a little higher up. He would put his 
forepaws up on the gunwale near the bow, and then get 
his hind paws up and from this position gaze down 
with panting excitement, relying on me to keep the 
canoe very steady. 
By the way, did you know that a dog was a good 
judge of stability in a canoe. My pointer Saxon, likes 
to lean over and drink, but if I tip the canoe on that 
side he will draw back and not drink. I must tip it 
to the opposite side. I was once caught in a sud¬ 
den squall in a bay with my old pointer Dandy in 
a 12 foot canoe. He immediately lay flat down in the 
bottom; and I thanked him for it in the sea that quickly 
arose. 
Among single handers the 12 footer has always had 
a reputation for seaworthiness. It will climb up and 
down the seas most cleverly and you can hold its 
head against the wind and seas in almost any position, 
because it is so short and there is very little lever¬ 
age against you. It is usually given a good depth 
amidships of 13 inches and an extreme beam of 33 or 
34 inches. It will, of course, turn easily in following 
winding streams. Ever since the days of Noah’s Ark, 
the short ship has always had advantages. 
As to what length of single hander you should 
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have, 12, 13 or 14, you must work that out by your own 
individuality. But let me call attention to some lines 
and shapes. I have drawn a rough illustration of 
midship sections of canoes, to show the two extremes 
of a very fiat floor with hard bilges, as the corners 
are called, up or down to the racer form with very 
easy bilges. Between the two extremes the forms are 
almost infinite in variety. The shape of the bilges has 
a great deal to do with the speed and stability. The 
bilges are the first things to examine. Dead rise, or 
the rise of the floor from perfect flatness is an ele¬ 
ment in canoes as in sail boats. Dead rise gives depth, 
and depth, as in larger vessels, is an element of stabil¬ 
ity. But, of course, depth does not go far in a canoe. 
In the illustration of fore hnd aft bottom lines the 
canoe on the left gives the bottom line usual in the 
United States, especially in what may be called pleas¬ 
ure canoes, as opposed to freight and weight carrying. 
The canoe in the middle shows what is considered a 
good line for cruising with baggage and camp equip¬ 
ment and in running rapids, either up or down. It 
makes a heavily laden canoe a little easier to turn; 
and also helps it to rise in a heavy sea. 
The canoe on the right with the extreme curve is 
taken from a design by a very experienced canoeist, 
Mr. Henry K. Wicksteed, chief engineer of surveys of 
the Canadian Northern Railway, and built for him by 
the Chestnut Canoe Company of Fredrickton, New 
Brunswick. It is a 14 foot single hander for one man 
and his baggage, or camp equipment. Its designer 
speaks very highly of its performances and considers 
it a most happy combination of handiness, speed and 
quick turning. It has rather easy bilges. 
I have never tried either of these curved bottoms for 
my purposes. I am inclined to think they are more 
suited to carrying heavy loads single handed. With 
only one man aboard and no cargo, the wind would 
seem to have too much control of the bow. But I am 
open to conviction and if anybody has one within a 
reasonable distance of Philadelphia, I should like noth¬ 
ing better than a chance to try it for an hour or so. 
I refrain from other divisions of the subject: The 
use of the double paddle, the Eskimo as a single hander 
in his Kyak with greatest beam abaft midships, the 
Rob Roy type, length of paddles, width of blades, and 
so on. The open type, originally birch bark, the in¬ 
vention and gift to us of the North American Indian, 
seems to displace all others. We still have to imitate 
its lines in canvas. There is an old saw, that there 
are only three absolutely perfected instruments in the 
world, the bow, the boomerang and the violin; and 
two of those are the inventions of savages. They for 
got the fourth one, also the invention of a savage. 
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