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necessary to shelter the flame of the alcohol 
lamp behind a bush as supper was cooked; and 
while the lamp was at work I opened and 
sampled a can of fine apricots that had been 
brought from the city. Mr. Epicure, if a dish 
of ice-cold, sweet preserved apricots, with 
plenty of syrup juice, doesn’t tempt your appe¬ 
tite, you ought to take somebody’s “pink pills’’ 
or sarsaparilla. If more high-grade fruit of this 
kind could be carried, the canoeist’s bill-of-fare 
would be even better than it is; but the weight 
and bulk of the cans prevent taking more than 
a few. Oranges are very nice for a canoe trip, 
as they are always refreshing, and keep very 
well. 
The York River flows into Chesapeake Bay 
just below Mobjack Bay; and as there were 
channels leading through the marshes, it 
seemed likely that one or more of them would 
take me to the York River without going clear 
around the eastern point of the marshes. An 
amiable native was seen approaching in a sail¬ 
boat, and as a result of my inquiries he kindly 
offered to show me the way through to the 
York River. His flat-bottomed boat, with only 
one leg-of-mutton sail, skimmed along .sur¬ 
prisingly fast with the brisk beam wind; and 
now and then he had to spill the wind out of 
his sail to enable me to keep up with him. In 
a few minutes an opening was seen that led to 
the river I was seeking; and the native turned 
his boat’s bow homeward, while I paddled on 
looking for a place to camp. The evening sky 
was red with gorgeous sunset hues as I landed 
on a marsh of just such character as the one al¬ 
ready described; and close to an unoccupied 
fishing cabin the tent was pitched. 
A light patter of rain was heard occasionally 
during the night, and in the morning it was 
raining quite steadily. So for an hour the cap¬ 
tain stayed in camp, reading blood-curdling 
stories of the sea, and receiving a call from 
some good-natured residents. Then, as the 
rain let up, the outfit was placed on board and 
the York River crossed. Though not so wide 
as Mobjack Bay or the Rappahannock, the 
York was much rougher than either; and I esti¬ 
mated the length of the waves in mid-channel 
at fifty, and their height from crest to trough 
at from four to six feet. This doesn’t sound 
like much in the way of height, but it looks like 
a lot when you’re there in an ii-foot canoe. 
Bunny sank deeply into the crests of the break¬ 
ing waves as they passed under her, but while 
the broken water boiled over on deck on either 
side it did not enter the cockpit to any extent. 
Here again the deck saved the little craft from 
coming to grief; and on landing on the further 
side it was only necessary to sponge out about 
a gallon of water altogether. 
The rain now commenced to descend smartly 
once more; but for a while a poncho worn by 
the captain kept him dry, while another 
sheltered the duffle-bags. Upon nearing the 
Poquosin River the rain came down so hard 
that the pine trees on shore could only be dimly 
seen through the diagonal downpour; but 
Bunny forged ahead, the exercise keeping her 
captain warm. The Poquosin fs a small stream, 
and was soon crossed; but here the canoeist 
was confronted by an apparently endless stretch 
of marsh, extending to windward for a long 
distance, and toward the east as far as he could 
see—and it was necessary to either go to wind¬ 
ward to get around the marsh, or toward the 
east to get through it and out into the bay 
again. The captain did think of landing on one 
of the marshy islands for the night; but a close 
inspection revealed such a cold, wet, cheerless 
jungle of tangled vegetation that the idea was 
at once given up. 
Fortunately, the captain was able to obtain 
information here from the occupant of a cabin 
raised on “stilts” to the effect that the marshes 
could be crossed without going clear around 
them; and the channel was pointed out and 
described as well as possible. For a while the 
directions were followed, but at length the 
canoeist became lost in the maze of little 
channels leading in every direction. The rain 
still fell, and the paddler was chilled through; 
and it looked for a while as though it would be 
necessary to spend the night on the marshes, 
I without shelter and with an excellent chance 
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