The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 475
lights of canoeing,and consequent inducementsto this mode of travel, havebeen fully appreciated sincethe summer of 1866, whenMr. Macgregor, Eob Boy,called together some kindredspirits at Putney, and aftergiving an entertaining ac-count of his journey of 1,000miles in a canoe, throughvarious… … ings annually for business and bivouac, for paddling and sail-ing, and for racing and chasing in canoes over land and water.One newspaper stated that the Canoe Club united themaximum of danger and discomfort with the minimum ofutility, and why? Perhaps the editor had turned over thefirst time he…
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