Rod And Gun In Canada Vol 17

Author : Canadian Forestry Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333838010
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Rod and Gun in Canada, Vol. 5 written by Canadian Forestry Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rod and Gun in Canada, Vol. 5: June, 1903 The monotony of our voyage by the novel (to us') horse and dug-out team was destined to be rudely interrupted, and the interruption came about in this wise. After we had gone about four or five miles we came to the Narrows, a gorge with walls of nearly precipitous rock and dangerous water. Most of the baggage had to be portaged, and the remainder was entrusted to the guides who undertook to pole the dug-out up through the rapids, resulting in an upset and total wreck of the vessel. Our sup plies went to the bottom or oated down stream. Hurrying to the spot in our bark canoe we recued ham, butter, pork, fishing tackle, etc. But there were some things dear to our hearts that the greedy waters would not yield up, and these were baked beans and our aluminum outfit, containing cooking utensils and dishes. Guides are a necessity. They are also an encumbrance if not of the right kind. \ve decided to dispense with ours. The generous sportsman Mr. D. Honeywell, of Boston) at the fishing lodge below Grand Falls, on being appealed to, improvised for us cooking utensils, supplementing them with various luxuries. Meantime our alum inum outfit had been recovered from a pool in the river. Left to our own resources, we pictured the delights of making our way unaided through the wilderness ahead of us, taking our own time and examining whatever we chose, - a free life, indeed, with a prospect of abundant ingenuity and exercise in overcoming the obstacles that lay strewn in our pathway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."