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
fi