Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-27
THE CRUISE CONTINUES.

A'"A - c3ahSo, Va bduCoiSlci
county, aud Barton Haxall holland,
also a Virginian, who left Irvington
the last of May in an 1S-foot skiff
for New York, the Lakes, St
Lawrence river and other places are
proceeding rapidly despite the high
seas and many reverses. But fol-
much pluck and presence of mind
these young gentlemen would ere
now have filled watery grave. The
cruise is being made in the interest
of Field and Stream, monthly mag
azine published in New York and the
following is clipped from the Septem-
Der number of that periodical:
At this writing (the 18th of Au-
gust we are quartered at Mount
Louis, a small gulf town about three
hundred and forty miles east of
Quebec, with the only English-speak-
ing gentleman in this semi-wilder-
ness country.
We think we have had to face some
pretty embarrassing conditions on
the st. Lawrence river and the gulf.
For the past three weeks we have
been looking the worst problem in
the face that could confront us as
handlers in a rowboat of five-six-
teenths of an inch in thickness. ]
refer to rocks.
Those green's shiny cks,jagged and
frowning, probably add a picturesque
effect to the already picturesque
shore, from the deck of a steam.
boat. But listen: when one is hungry
and tired after days pull and the
sun is sinking, and the sun goes down
SO fast when it gets on that last two
hour lap that a sort of impatient
feeling takes hold of one, it takes
but little wind to pick up a sea in
this broad water, and as we skirt
along the shore looking for a place
of entrance to the beach, we see moth.
ing but rocks four and five hundred
yards deep from the sand from which
a constant roar and whiteness goes
up from running surf.
| am going to relate just one
episode of our landing on these rocks
before passing them by.
The gulf was as still as death one
certain Monday afternoon. More or
less all day We had been travelling
past high jagged cliffs from five
hundred to eight hundred feet deep,
with no beach at their base save
about hundred yards of incline of
solid rock. The tide was dead low
when we turned the Dipper's nose
ashore about an hour before sum
down. Now, these rocks, which
water rises over at high tide, are
slippery to a degree that would put
ice to shame. In addition to this an
incline, and imagine us carrying
loads of camp dufile up that incline
and then the boat. We landed, and
by placing our feet in little shelves
managed to get the boats bow well
up, and John started up the rock to
consider camping place. 1 counted
four times that he fell going up. He
reached a brown looking rock finally
that appeared substantial, became
confident, walked erect, and then
| heard "zip'' and a thud. He fell
in such a position that he couldn't
recover his footing nor catch himself
The water in the Gulf of st
Lawrence is abominably cold, anG
John didn't want to go in it bit
Down the rock he came, gathering il
front of his knees and legs an increas
ing batch of moss and slime, shout
ing to me to catch him, to catch him
When he passed me / was standing by
the boat holding on to her. / grabbed
him by the back of the neck, Mi
force started me, / started the boa
and the whole outfit went humping
down the side Of that rock togethel
and into the water.
And now for the tides. We of th,
Southern States have no conception
of their like. At Quebec there is
rise on the perpendicular of twenty
two feet.
We were satisfied to run once will
a swift current regardless of tide
until within forty miles Of Quebec
One Friday afternoon we ran int,
the belt with a rush, which rapit
progress stopped at nightfall neve
to begin again. We ran out of
town pretty late and headed dowl
the river in a glowing sunset. w
noticed once or twice that we wer
going unusually fast, and lookin,
away ahead we saw two funny look
ing objects that were doing no en-,
OF scnfling in the water, and the,
seemed too large for animals. W,
brought them out quickly and to ou
amazement found them to be buoy
in the channel. They we're Of the Gu,
variety and large, yet they were sway
ing from side to side with terrif
violence and at times water swep