narrow that in some
places one can easily jump across it."

The following account of an interview with Mr. Paine is extracted from
the New Orleans _Democrat_ of November twentieth, 1881:

"There arrived at the Jetties on the fifteenth a tiny cedar canoe,
bearing aloft at the bows a pennant with the inscription _Alice_,
and at the stern a United States flag. Its officers and crew
consisted of Captain Willard Glazier, a distinguished writer, and a
reportorial companion, Mr. Barrett Channing Paine, of the Saint
Paul _Pioneer Press_, who had come all the way down the
Mississippi, from its source, in this frail bark. Great, indeed,
was the joy of the voyagers as they glided down to the mouth of the
river, and saw the salt spray of the Gulf dash high over the
seaward wall of the Jetties. After clambering up by the beacon, and
standing gazing at the broad expanse of water, toward which they
had been paddling for the last four months, until they were
drenched by an unusually heavy wave, the two men again descended
slowly, scarcely conscious that their long voyage was finished.
Hailing a passing boat, they boarded her, and the light canoe was
made fast behind and towed back to Port Eads, where the travellers
were most hospitably entertained until the arrival of an inward
bound steamship to bring them to New Orleans.

"As this is by far the longest canoe voyage ever made, and extended
the whole length of the Great River, some account of the
expedition, its aims and incidents, cannot fail to be of interest.

"A representative of the _Democrat_ had the pleasure of meeting
Barrett Channing Paine, who accompanied Captain Glazier, and from
him learned the following particulars of the voyage:

"Captain Willard Glazier is a serious, soldierly-looking man, and a
military author of repute. Among his best known works are 'Soldiers
of the Saddle,' 'Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape,' 'Battles for the
Union,' 'Heroes of Three Wars,' and 'Peculiarities of American
Cities.' The Captain does not look like a man of thoughtless,
adventurous disposition, and it seems strange at first that he
should have made the voyage in the manner he did; but it looks
sensible enough when his reasons are taken into consideration. The
Captain made the trip avowedly for the purpose of study a