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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 27, 1908. 
of those bleak, barren hills and stayed where I 
was and the mate slept peacefully on, ignorant 
of the move. 
About four o’clock the rowers began to show 
the effects of their long pull, for they had 
rowed some forty or fifty miles since daylight, 
so at Joe’s suggestion, we relieved them and 
bent our backs until the sweat ran off us in 
streams. 
Hans had to quit—he was too short and small 
to swing the heavy oar—and Albert soon tired, 
so Joe and I each kept an oar and the Chilanos 
relieved each other at the other two, smoking 
cigarettes when not rowing. They were very 
grateful for the rest and insisted on giving us 
each a handful of their brown paper cigarettes 
in token of it. 
We could see the masts of the ships in Caleta 
Buena on the southern horizon when the sun 
set in a flood of red light behind the sea line; 
but by the time we reached the bark, it was 
pitch dark. Not a word was said to us as we 
came up the gangway, although the captain, 
second mate and cook were leaning over the rail 
watching us, so going forward we turned into 
our now blanketless bunks and soon fell asleep. 
We were aroused at four o’clock next' morn¬ 
ing by the old familiar cry of “Now then you 
sleepers, turn out and get your coffee!” It 
took some lively scouting around to get pots 
enough for all hands, for five of us had lost all 
our tins. After coffee we started sending up 
and bending on the sails. We had just turned 
to after breakfast, and I was about to go up 
the main rigging with the tail-block and gaunt- 
line, when the mate called me down and said, 
“Go aft, the old man wants to see you.” 
Canoeing. 
A. C. A. Fixtures. 
July 10-24.—Western Division Camp.—Spring Lake, 
Grand Haven, Mich. 
July 11-19.—Atlantic Division Camp. — Plum Point, 
Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
--.—Central Division Cruise and Camp.—Alle¬ 
gheny River. 
Aug. 7-21.—A. C. A. Camp.—Sugar Island, St. Lawrence 
River. 
Sept. 5-7.—Atlantic Division Camp.—Hermit Point, Hud¬ 
son River. 
- —.—Central Division Cruise and Camp.— 
Allegheny River. 
A South County Canoe Trip. 
On a certain Saturday afternoon in Septem¬ 
ber two canoeists and a friend boarded the train 
at the Providence Station, and finding the cars 
crowded betook themselves to the rear platform 
for the sake of air, also, incidentally, to avoid 
as far as possible rousing the wonder of the 
passengers as to how three hoboes raised the 
price of a ride on the Shore Line express. Pull¬ 
ing out of the station our section of the train 
stopped in the yard until the first section had 
pulled out by us, then after a long wait, and as 
we were becoming exceedingly tired of the situa¬ 
tion, another coach was coupled on and we 
moved in at once, having it almost entirely to 
ourselves. At last we were off, our destination 
being Kingston Station. 
Upon leaving the train at Kingston the bag¬ 
gage checks were presented, and the packages 
of duffle being deposited upon the platform in 
charge of the cook, the captain and crew began 
a still-hunt for the canoe, which was soon found 
reposing in the freight shed, right side up and 
in good order. Upon application at the office 
we found the freight agent very independent. 
When asked how soon we could pay the freight 
and take the canoe, he replied that it might be 
half an hour or it might be two hours, he could 
not tell; and when we stated that we were in a 
hurry he thought it made very little difference 
whether we were in a hurry or not. At first 
we thought we should have to take the canoe 
by force, but finally prevailed upon the agent to 
accept the payment of the freight bill and give 
a receipt, with which we adjourned to the freight 
house, and setting up the carriage, which had 
been lashed under the forward seat, the canoe 
was secured upon it and wheeled out upon the 
platform where the duffle was loaded in, the 
party then moving on toward the Chipuxet River 
down which the voyage was to be begun. 
Stopping a few moments at the grocery store 
and the baker shop, to add to the commissary 
supplies, we rolled the canoe along on its bicycle 
wheels, over the half mile of fine road between 
the station and the river, which proved to be 
at this point about thirty feet wide and used as 
a watering place for the horses driven by the 
country people thereabout. 
The carriage being knocked down and placed 
in the canoe, the word was given to launch, and 
CANOES ON CARRIAGES. 
the cook, having put on rubber boots, took the 
bow and backed off into the water with it. Alas, 
the momentum was too great and the water 
deeper than it looked, with the result that the 
cook was soon upon the. grassy bank, being as¬ 
sisted to remove those boots, afterward embark¬ 
ing with feet covered only as nature made them, 
the captain and crew having set the example. 
A few strokes of the paddles sent the canoe 
across the pool, and the outlet, which from the 
bank had looked hardly wide enough for a canoe 
to pass, proved deep and just wide enough to 
slip through. Beyond, the bushes overhung and 
almost closed the brook, but always left room 
sufficient for us to pass. In places the river 
widened out, sometimes almost filled with marine 
THE CAPTAIN AND THE COOK, WORDEN’S POINT. 
growths, and at one place, where the alders grew 
thickly jn clumps, we must have taken the wrong 
channel, for we found ourselves pushing the 
canoe among the hummocks, sliding over the 
mud, with almost no water under us. Trying 
to return would be as bad as to go ahead, so 
we pushed on and finally found the channel 
again after which we had no more trouble in 
keeping to the river which wound around 
through the swamp until, just before the sun 
set, we reached that broad expanse of shallow, 
reedy water known as Worden’s Pond. 
Southwest of the inlet lies a small island, and 
for this we steered, thinkinsr to camp there for 
the night, but upon approaching nearer we found 
it little more than a sandhill with a few bushes 
and one or two stunted trees growing upon it 
and not our idea of a camping spot, so we swung 
over toward a point which projected out from 
the east shore where we found a fine place for 
a camp and soon had the tent up and a lunch 
prepared, after which the evening was pleas¬ 
antly spent smoking and talking around the 
camp-fire. 
Some time during the night the crew was 
awakened by the rumble of thunder in the dis¬ 
tance and proceeded to make all snug, but the 
storm passed over with only a few scattered 
drops of rain. 
Sunday morning dawned cool, and with a light 
fog over the water, which, however, soon burned 
off and the fishing tackle was rigged, some bait 
procured from one of the boys of the vicinity, 
an attempt then being made to entice some of 
the finny tribe from the waters of the pond, but 
with poor success, two small perch being the 
total catch, and these were returned to the water 
to grow. 
As we only wished to reach Carolina before 
making our next camp, and as the map shows 
the distance as being comparatively short, we 
did not get started from Worden’s Pond until 
2 P. M., believing we could reach Carolina by 
about 5 o’clock. Crossing the pond in the direc¬ 
tion of the outlet as shown by the map, and 
finding no signs of a river where we supposed 
it ought to be, the crew landed, and seeing a 
lady and gentleman who appeared to belong 
thereabouts, pronounced the question, “Can you 
direct us to the outlet?” They could not, but 
thought it was somewhere along the shore, 
northerly from where we stood, and thanking 
them we started to look in that direction. After 
paddling some distance it was decided to push 
through the rushes and see what was beyond, 
and after pushing along some fifty yards we 
came upon a stream about fifteen feet wide, but 
quite deep, which proved to be the outlet sought. 
This stream flowed into and through a swamp 
and was bordered by dense foliage, which in 
places overhung the river, almost closing it up. 
The current was quite swift, and the river, 
though narrow, was deep, and in most places 
free from obstructions; but while, as shown on 
the map, the river appears to be nearly straight, 
we found it quite the contrary, often paddling 
down a stretch from fifty to three hundred yards 
long toward the south, only to find at the end 
a turn so short as to require vigorous use of 
both bow and stern paddles to get around with¬ 
out' running into the bank, then paddling down 
another stretch to the north as long or longer 
than that to the south, to find we had made a 
net gain in the general direction of not more 
than ten to fifty feet. 
A thunder cloud appeared in the northwest 
and spurred us to renewed efforts, as we pre¬ 
ferred to be out of the swamp before the shower 
reached us if possible, but gradually the clouds 
rolled away to the north and no rain fell in our 
vicinity. 
[to be concluded.] 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Eastern Division.—Arthur H. Garst, 48 Henry 
street, Edgewood, R. I., and Edgar T. Sellew, 
101 Potter street, Auburn, R. I., both by Arthur 
E. Neill. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—5529, Edward R. Rose, 949 
Berkeley avenue, Trenton, N. J.; 5531, Howard 
B. Marsh, 23 South 9th street, Newark, N. J.; 
S 53 2 . Farnum F. Dorsey, 39 Cortlandt street, 
New York city". 
Eastern Division.—5530, Herbert L. Platts, 
Reading, Mass. 
APPLICANT FOR REINSTATEMENT. 
Atlantic Division.—Wilbur D. Andrews. 
NEW LIFE MEMBER. 
No. 86 (A. 4292), Wilbur D. Andrews, Fort 
Washington avenue and West 177th street, New 
York city. 
