THE CANOE AURORA:

 

A  C R U I S E

FROM THE

ADIRONDACKS TO THE GULF

 

BY

DR. CHAS. A. NEIDÉ

Secretary of the American Canoe Association

 

 New York:
FOREST AND STREAM Publishing Co.

 

Copyright, FOREST AND STREAM Publishing Co. 1885.

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

CHAPTER.

I.

 

Which Leaves Us in the Pot-that-washes-itself.

II.

 

In Which are Set Forth the Delights of Canoeing on a Canal.

III.

 

In Which is Shown the Benevolent Nature of Bark-Peelers.

IV.

 

In Which We have an Encounter with the Indians.

V.

 

Oil on the Troubled Waters.

VI.

 

In Which the Paddle is Exchanged for a Club.

VII.

 

A Scow, a Cow and a Row.

VIII.

 

Which Ends in a Cloud of Smoke.

IX.

 

Down the Ohio.

X.

 

In Which We Sing a Song.

XI.

 

The Vagabonds' Highway.

XII.

 

Shanty-boats and Boatmen.

XIII.

 

A Short One, in which Barnacle Takes the Cake.

XIV.

 

In Which is Shows the Wisdom of Sitting Still.

XV.

 

In Which We have a Swell Time.

XVI.

 

We Run the Falls of the Ohio.

XVII.

 

Hospitality Ashore and Afloat.

XVIII.

 

Voyaging on a Flatboat.

XIX.

 

Nipped in the Ice.

XX.

 

In Which We Paddle Into the Mississippi.

XXI.

 

Which Finds Us Neither Afloat nor Ashore.

XXII.

 

Some Glimpses of the Mississippi.

XXIII.

 

In Which Barnacle Crawls Into a Hole.

XXIV.

 

Frozen in the Sunny South.

XXV.

 

Which Introduces Judge Lynch and Mark Twain.

XXVI.

 

In Which I Have Recourse to a Mephistophelean Ruse.

XXVII.

 

The Crescent City.

XXVIII.

 

In Which We have a Skirmish with the United States Army.

XXIX.

 

In Which Our Prows Cut the Waters of the Gulf.

XXX.

 

The Outside Gulf Passage.

XXXI.

 

In Which it is Shown that the Greatest Peril of Canoeing is Fire on Dry Land.

XXXII.

 

From Pascagoula to Point of Pines.

XXXIII.

 

In Which Barnacle Finds Deep Water.

XXXIV.

 

In Which a Mullet Drops From the Sky.

XXXV.

 

In Which the Aurora and the Comfort Dip Below the Horizon.

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

Map

The Route of the Two Canoeists (1000 x 1300 pixels)

Appendix with Additional Illustrations:

 

Watch Tackle (gun tackle purchase, luff tackle purchase).

 

A Rushton Princess Canoe

 


© 2000 Craig O'Donnell
May not be reproduced without my permission. So there.


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