, 1877-11-03
SATURDAY. :. NOVEMBER 8, 1871.
Lost, Drowned, Etc.

So our friends Thought US 10 ne, oc'
cause We were away about week longer
than antici patcd, and they failed to re-
ceive satisfactory accounts of our where.
abouts. The consequence was, that on
our return last Tuesday evening, the
hands in the office, as well as several
citizens of the place were engaged trying
70 learn where we were, in place of work
ing on the paper therefore we are com
PEELED to furnish our readers only half a
paper this week. This compcls us to
leave out snmc aids, and defer great
deal OF original matter until next week.
We hope hereafter, our friends will
give themselves no more worry as to our
whereabouts. as we feel fully able to take
care OF ourselves, and should any acci.-
dents ever lefall US, they would be
wholly unable to render any real service
in such case as the one imagined to
have taken place. Besides we would
rather be drowned dozen times, than
to occasion so much worry and anxiety
again, and that needlesly.
When first on the river, before VIC eve
tried to handle paddle or manage II
canoe, in trip up river, under the man
agement Of others, VIC met with the first
aud only accident, that contained any ele-
ment of danger ever experienced by US
in near FIVE years Of canoe and row boat
navigation ot this river, and this resulted
in nothing more than in being compelled
20 swim ashore. r.f
During the past three years, we have
travelled in canoe or small boat more
miles than perhaps any other citizen of
the county; going, dozens of times each
year from this place to the mouth of the
river and back at all hours OF the day
and night, without an accident
Within the past year and halt, we
have been making systematic eexamina--
tion of the Sound country, visiting its
several regions, writing up its resources,
and extending tue influence and circula-
tiou Of the STAR. This work has taken
as from home about one-halt OF the time,
and although we have received much
assistance otherwise, We have been COM
PEELED to row or paddle skiff or canoe,
in that time over 5000 miles, most Of that
distance alone, with none to help Us, and
'intil the past few months seldom using
sail. Ia all this time we never received
an injury or met with an accident occa-
STONED, by the roughness Of the water or
pcrils Of the sea, so called, except once
last summer, in getting off the Zephyr
into small skiff, the officers were igno-
rant OF such work, aud did not know
how to handle the steamer, this was just
before their accident up the skagit; they
became frightened at the sea, less than
what we frequently Tentured upon be-
fore and since, and put the boat of the
wrong side, and started up the steamer,
and run the boat down. OF course we
caught the steamers guard and got on
her again, but lost our boat. This was
.occasioned wholly by the incompetence
of her cfiieers a'"ie" '".' H"*i
In fact, whore persca knows how to
manage ais craft, ls cool, does not get
-frightsned when there is no danger, aud
and 10 neE@ given to the use of liquor,
the dangeCs of rowing about the bays
and riveEs of,the Sound are too trivial to
DO taken into consideration by any one
pretending to ordinary strength o!
mind.
While the real dangers are very slight,
not greater than those encountered by
common travellers in other modes OF
cohvtyance, yet the delays are sometimes
very vexatiOns and frequently disagreea-
ble. One of the most common sources of
delay is in travelling over the tide flats.
and innumerGale sloughs Of the lower
Sound, where va person attempts to be