ours.

The National Championship, N. A. of A. O.:
Singles, Doubles, and Fours.

The World's Championship at Centennial Exhibition:
Singles, Doubles, and Fours.

The Professional Championship of the United States.

And every other important race of the season, besides receiving the
highest honors at the Centennial Exhibition. The right to make boats of
paper in Canada and in the United States is exclusively held by the
Messrs. Waters, and they are the only manufacturers of paper boats in
the world.

It is not many years since Mr. Macgregor, of London, built the little
Rob Roy canoe, and in it made the tour of interesting European waters.
His example was followed by an army of tourists, and it is now a common
thing to meet canoe voyagers in miniature flotillas upon the
watercourses of our own and foreign lands. Mr. W. Baden-Powell, also an
Englishman, perfected the model of the Nautilus type of canoe, which
possesses a great deal of sheer with fullness of bow, and is therefore a
better boat for rough water than the Rob Roy. The New York Canoe Club,
in 1874, had the Nautilus for their model. We still need a distinctive
American type for our waters, more like the best Indian canoe than the
European models here presented. These modern yacht-like canoes are
really improved _kyaks_, and in their construction we are much indebted
to the experience of the inhabitants of the Arctic Circle. Very few of
the so-called Rob Roy canoes, built in the United States, resemble the
original perfected boat of Mr. Macgregor--the father of modern canoe
travelling. The illustrations given of English canoes are from imported
models, and are perfect of their type.

CHAPTER VI.

TROY TO PHILADELPHIA.

PAPER CANOE MARIA THERESA.--THE START.--THE DESCENT OF THE HUDSON
RIVER.--CROSSING THE UPPER BAY OF NEW YORK.--PASSAGE OF THE
KILLS.--RARITAN RIVER.--THE CANAL ROUTE FROM NEW BRUNSWICK TO THE
DELAWARE RIVER.--FROM BORDENTOWN TO PHILADELPHIA.

[Illustration: From Albany to New York City.

Route of Paper Canoe MARIA THERESA From Albany to New
York City Via Hudson River Followed by N. H. Bishop in 1874
_Copyright, 1878 by Lee & Shepard_]

My canoe of the English "Nautilus" type was completed by the middle of
October; and on the cold, drizzly morning of the 21st of the same month
I embarked in my little fifty-eight pound craft from the landing of the
paper-boat