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Title: The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"

Author: John MacGregor

Release Date: November 12, 2008 [eBook #27235]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VOYAGE ALONE IN THE YAWL "ROB
ROY"***

Transcribed from the 1893 Sampson Low, Marston and Company edition by
David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

[Picture: Book cover]

THE
VOYAGE ALONE
IN THE
YAWL "ROB ROY,"

FROM LONDON TO PARIS, AND BY HARVE
ACROSS THE CHANNEL TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT,
SOUTH COAST, &c., &c.

BY JOHN MACGREGOR, M.A.,

CAPTAIN OF 'THE ROYAL CANOE CLUB,'
AUTHOR OF 'A THOUSAND MILES IN THE ROB ROY CANOE,'
'THE ROB ROY ON THE BALTIC,'
'THE ROB ROY ON THE JORDAN,' &c.

_SIXTH EDITION_.

LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY
_LIMITED_.
St. Dunstan's House,
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1893

(_All rights reserved_.)

LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

[Picture: Frontispiece: A tight squeeze. See page 159]

PREFACE.

In the earlier part of this voyage, and where it was most wished for,
along the dangerous coast of France, fine weather came.

Next there was an amphibious interlude to the Paris Exhibition, while the
Rob Roy sailed inland.

Thence her course over the sea brought the yawl across the broad Channel
(100 miles) to Cowes and its Regattas, and to rough water in dark nights
of thunder, until once more in the Thames