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Canoeing, 
Detroit to New York by Canoe. 
Continued from page 546. 
We were pretty well tired out, and it was 
eleven o’clock at night, certainly not a very 
pleasant prospect for landing. We made the 
best of a bad bargain, and I slipped overboard 
and carried our baggage ashore on my head, 
while Tom steadied the boat. First our 
blankets and tent, as it was plain to see that 
this night we would have to sleep out under the 
sky. Then followed the rest of our equipment 
and finally Tom in the canoe. We picked out a 
suitable place on a hill overlooking the lake to 
pitch our tent, and began to put it up. The 
stakes would not hold in the sandy ground, and 
it could not be put together properly, it seemed, 
and kept tumbling down. Finally Tom said, 
“Let’s crawl under the blessed thing and go to 
sleep.” W^e have laughed many times about 
this incident, although at the time it was not 
so funny. We stuck to it, however, and finally 
got it up, and then worse luck, we had buttoned 
down the front instead of the back, conse¬ 
quently, when this was straightened out, our 
tent was heading inshore instead of overlook¬ 
ing the lake. 
It is funny how these things often happen for 
the best. In the morning when we awoke it 
was pouring rain, with a southeast wind, which, 
had we left our tent as we intended, would have 
soaked us completely. As it was, we lay there 
with our. rubber blankets and laughed at our 
predicament and at the rain. We must have 
fallen asleep again, for we were suddenly 
startled by the voice of a young farmer, de¬ 
manding to know if we had washed in during 
the night, or did we rain down from above. 
He had come along driving his cattle to pasture, 
and certainly must have been greatly surprised 
to find us like two lost sheep camped out in 
the rain on the end of his farm. He kindly 
directed us to the hotel of Clear Creek about 
half a mile inshore. Here we enjoyed a good 
breakfast and began to think of going on our 
way again. 
Each day our main thought was always how 
much further can we make to-day. Yet this 
morning it was out of the question to think of 
launching any kind of boat on that shore with 
the heavy southeast wind that was blowing. 
We were beginning to think of giving up for 
the day, when by a chance look at our chart, we 
discovered Big Creek about six miles eastward, 
emptying into Long Point Bay, with the 
friendly protection of Long Point, which ex¬ 
tends southeasterly into Lake Erie, a distance 
of some thirty-four miles. We soon made an 
arrangement with a farmer to drive us to Big 
Creek, loaded our canoe on a light wagon, and 
with flags flying, walked alongside. The farm¬ 
ers we passed did not know exactly what to 
make of the procession, and we occasioned 
many remarks. 
We had just about launched into Big Creek, 
when a heavy wind storm came up. We covered 
everything with our rubber blankets, and after 
putting on our bathing suits, decided to let the 
wind do its worst. Once in the open country 
we hoisted sail, and I must say it was the 
most exciting sail we ever experienced. It took 
us so fast our canoe fairly rocked from side to 
side, and when a bend was reached instead of 
jibing over in sailor-like fashion, we were 
obliged to put our boom clear around the spar 
and over the bow to keep from capsizing. In 
less than no time, we covered the few miles to 
the lake and boldly started across the bay to¬ 
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us, however, being offshore and rapidly turn¬ 
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were practically battling for our lives, as it was 
turning cold and darkness rapidly setting in. A 
fishing shanty all by itself with a narrow plat¬ 
form surrounding it. came into our line o’ 
vision about this time, and toward that we 
headed as a last resort. Had we given up anc 
allowed ourselves to be blown out, I shudder 
to think what might have become of us. As it 
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