Adventure Magazine Cover, August 18, 1921 — page 194: what you’re looking at

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188 Canoeing Ontario’s Streams 4p as is a two-seasons trip; at the begin- ning of the second season you pick it up where you left off at the end of the first. Not a bad idea; eh? Question:—“My chum and I have an 18-foot mo- tor-equipped canoe in which we can cover 50 miles a day easy cruising. We are planning to start from Rouse’s Point, New York, and head for the St. Lawrence River; and from that point on I would like to have a few suggestions as to the routes. I have thought to cover about five hundred miles, leave the canoe at our stopping-point and return to New York by rail, continuing the trip for another five hundred miles next year. In framing your answer please consider these points: We would like wild country, where we will not bother any one or be bothered in turn, yet we must consider the gas question as it is impractical to carry more than a one-hundred-fifty-mile supply. Long portages are very difficult with our heavy out- fit, and we must end our trip at some place that is near a railroad and yet leaves us in a good position to make another good-sized trip next year. As an example of what I have in mind, a small- scale atlas shows a tributary of the Ottawa River approaching within what I should judge to be ten or fifteen miles of river running into Lake Nipissing. I had considered running up the Ottawa River and having our outfit hauled within navigating distance of Lake Nipissing and then to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. Of course, I have no way of knowing just what possibilities there are of making the connec- tion between the river and the lake; but the above is what I have in mind, and any information you may give me will be greatly appreciated. Last Summer we went up the Hudson River from New York City to Troy and then by canal to Lake Champlain, and we certainly had a fine time camp- ing by the waterside at night. We avoided towns entirely except for supplies. This year we are look- ing for a wilder trip.” —R. FLINTOFT, Mount Kisco, ae Answer, by Mr. Moore:—If you have a heavy out- fit I wouldn’t advise you to go up the Ottawa River. From the mouth to Mattawa there are innumerable rapids, many very long, which means too much portaging. If I were you I would come to Cape Vincent, N. Y., instead of Rouse’s Point; then, taking the north shore of Lake Ontario, come into the Bay of Quinte, pass Deseronto and Belleville and go on to Trenton. From Trenton go up the Trent River to Campbell- ford, through Rice Lake, the Ottonabee River, into Clear Lake, Stony Lake, Buckhorn Lake, Pigeon Lake, Sturgeon Lake, Canoe Lake, Balsam Lake, the canal to Lake Simcoe, up Lake Couchiching, the Severn River, and out to Georgian Bay. Having reached the bay, you could cruise at will, take in the many side trips available and leave your canoe at Parry Sound for the next year. Next year you could leave Parry Sound, go north to the mouth of the French River, east to Lake Nipissing and the connection to the Ottawa and down the Ottawa—a stream much easiér to descend than to ascend. You will have to go through a dozen or more locks Adventure on the Trent trip, but you will see country from the tamest at the beginning to the wildest at the end; you will bother nobody, else it be the lockmasters who are paid for being bothered; nobody will bother you. Your gasoline supply will be very readily replenished along the route. Reaching the Severn River, in our famed Mus- koka District, you will feel that you have been well repaid for the trip—a trip which I understand from a young man who made it last year entails practi- cally no portaging at all. If you should make this Trent trip, drop in and see us, or let me know in time and I will go down the bay to meet you. Put at least five cents postage on all let- ters addressed to ‘‘Ask Adventure’’ editors who live outside the U. S. Always enclose at least five cents in International Reply Coupons for answer. Tahiti 1 a fine little place for the visitor with money; and no place at all for the wanderer with empty pockets: Qucstion:—‘‘Kindly give me all dope on the island of Tahiti. 1. What group of islands is the island of Tahiti in? 2. What direction is it from Frisco, and how far? 3. What are the living conditions there at the present time? 4. Could one get work there, and what kind? I can operate any type of sewing-machine made; have done riveting, holding-on, drilling, reaming, short knife cutting; leather-belt pressman; fairly good meat-cutter; four years of machine-shop work; drove a tin can two years as cook in the Air Service; painting almost anything. 5. When does the harvest season begin in the West, and in what State? I intend to follow up the harvest this Summer and then intend to work or beat my way to Tahiti from Frisco. 6. Can this be done? 7. Would you advise me to take a pal along?”— “ROVER,” Philadelphia, Pa. Answer, by Mr. Charles Brown, Jr.:—I am taking up your questions in the order that you put them to me. * 1. Tahiti is in the Society Islands. 2. 3,360 miles southwest of San Francisco. 3. The living conditions are very good. One can live out in the districts of Tahiti for as low as $20 American a month. In Papeete, the only large village on the island, it can be done European fashion for $40 a month, this including hotel expen- ses, laundry and other ‘incidentals. Which is be- cause it is a French island. | 4. I would not advise you to go to Tahiti with the hope or expectation of finding work. Wages in Tahiti do not amount to anything at all. The trading-houses have brought up their own men, French and Tahitian, who know their peculiar game ron A to Z. The same holds true for mechanical work. In fact, one must speak French or Tahitian in order to hold his own down there. I know of any MICLOOKS S|