courteous treatment of the Southern people was most
gratifying. The author can only add to this expression an extract
from his reply to the address of the Mayor of St. Mary's, Georgia,
which city honored him with an ovation and presentation of flags
after the completion of his voyage:

"Since my little paper canoe entered southern waters upon her
geographical errand,--from the capes of the Delaware to your
beautiful St. Mary's,--I have been deeply sensible of the value
of Southern hospitality. The oystermen and fishermen living
along the lonely beaches of the eastern shore of Maryland and
Virginia; the surfmen and light-house keepers of Albemarle,
Pamplico, and Core sounds, in North Carolina; the ground-nut
planters who inhabit the uplands that skirt the network of
creeks, marshes, ponds, and sounds from Bogue Inlet to Cape
Fear; the piny-woods people, lumbermen, and turpentine
distillers on the little bluffs that jut into the fastnesses
of the great swamps of the crooked Waccamaw River; the
representatives of the once powerful rice-planting aristocracy
of the Santee and Peedee rivers; the colored men of the
beautiful sea-islands along the coast of Georgia; the Floridians
living between the St. Mary's River and the Suwanee--the wild
river of song; the islanders on the Gulf of Mexico where I
terminated my long journey;--all have contributed to make the
'Voyage of the Paper Canoe' a success."

After returning from this paper-canoe voyage, the author embarked alone,
December 2, 1875, in a cedar duck-boat twelve feet in length, from the
head of the Ohio River, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and followed the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers over two thousand miles to New Orleans,
where he made a portage through that city eastwardly to Lake
Pontchartrain, and rowed along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico six or
seven hundred miles, to Cedar Keys, Florida, the terminus of his
paper-canoe voyage.

While on these two voyages, the author rowed over five thousand miles,
meeting with but one accident, the overturning of his canoe in Delaware
Bay. He returned to his home with his boats in good condition, and his
note-books, charts, &c., in an excellent state of preservation.

At the request of the "Board on behalf of the United States Executive
Department" of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, the paper
canoe "Maria Theresa," and the cedar duck-boat "C