The cruise of the Canoe Club

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS.

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The narrative follows four young friends who resolve to buy canoes and mount a wilderness cruise. After raising money through an unexpected windfall, they consult experienced canoeists, purchase craft, and set out on a river journey. Their trip combines practical lessons about canoeing and camping with episodic adventures — navigating rapids, improvising shelter and food, encountering wildlife, and solving equipment troubles — which test their teamwork, judgment, and seamanship while offering lively sketches of outdoor life and youth.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

		PAGE
“Don’t Think for a Moment of Getting any other Canoe”		Frontispiece
“She’s Half Full of Water”		30
A Stampede in Camp		38
Not so Easy as it Looks		50
“He Caught Hold of the Root of a Tree and kept his Canoe Stationary”		70
Running the Rapid		78
Getting Breakfast under Difficulties		94
Hunting for a Wild-cat in Chambly Castle		110
Sailing Down the Richelieu River		116
“They Found a Bear Feasting upon the Remains of their Breakfast”		138
Around the Camp-fire		146
“How in the World did you Get up there?”		160