OPEN, DELAWARE, 98
6. FROM CAPE HENLOPEN, DELAWARE, TO NORFOLK,
VIRGINIA, 114
7. FROM NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, TO BOGUE INLET, NORTH
CAROLINA, 148
8. FROM BOGUE INLET, NORTH CAROLINA, TO BULL'S
BAY, SOUTH CAROLINA, 180
9. FROM BULL'S BAY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TO ST. SIMON'S
SOUND, GEORGIA, 261
10. FROM ST. SIMON'S SOUND, GEORGIA, TO CEDAR KEYS,
FLORIDA, 317
ILLUSTRATIONS.
ENGRAVED BY JOHN ANDREW & SON.
PAGE
HOME OF THE ALLIGATOR. (Frontispiece.)
GREAT AUK (_Alca impennis_). Extinct. 11
ANCHORED AT LAST, 56
A FULL-RIGGED NAUTILUS CANOE, 57
THE ROB ROY CANOE, 68
THE ABORIGINAL TYPE, 74
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Photographed at Disco, Greenland.
THE IMPROVED TYPE.--PAPER CANOE MARIA THERESA, 74
A CAPSIZE IN DELAWARE BAY, 108
DELAWARE WHIPPING-POST AND PILLORY, 147
BODY ISLAND LIGHT HOUSE, 179
CROSSING HATTERAS INLET, 190
RECEPTION AT CHARLESTON POST-OFFICE, 259
THE PANTHER'S LEAP, 345
THE VOYAGE ENDED, 351
[Illustration: General Map of Routes followed by the Author during two
Voyages made to the Gulf of Mexico.
MAP OF ROUTES FOLLOWED BY N. H. BISHOP IN PAPER CANOE
"MARIA THERESA" AND DUCK BOAT "CENTENNIAL REPUBLIC" 1874-1876
_Copyright, 1878 by Lee & Shepard_]
VOYAGE OF THE PAPER CANOE.
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CHAPTER I.
THE APPROACHES TO THE WATER-WAY OF THE CONTINENT.
ISLAND OF ST. PAUL.--THE PORTALS OF THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE.--THE
EXTINCT AUK.--ANTICOSTI ISLAND.--ICEBERGS.--SAILORS' SUPERSTITIONS.--THE
ESTUARY OF THE ST. LAWRENCE.--TADOUSAC.--THE SAGUENAY RIVER.--WHITE
WHALES.--QUEBEC.
While on his passage to the ports of the St. Lawrence River, the mariner
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