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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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the head of the falls. Our last taskbefore breakfast was to drag the cayucasup and bring up our commissary sup-plies. There is no particular art or sciencein getting a cayuca up a hill. It is justa question of brute strength. The read-er should not confuse the cayuca of thetropics with the birch-bark canoe of theNorth American Indian. A cayuca isa one-piece boat, a dug-out, a single treehollowed and sharpened at both ends.In the water it has two objects in ex-istence; one is to drift down stream, theother is to turn over when checked. Onland it is a monument to inertia. An hours hard labor landed them atthe top, where we meant to camp untilafternoon. We had turned the boatsbottom up and were seated on them hav-ing a breathing spell, when we remem-bered that it would not be safe to leaveour food supplies at the mercy of prowl-ing animals and hurried down again tobring them up also. Our food had been packed in threecases. One contained canned beef andsalmon; a second, canned tongue, ham
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DOC SAID HE FELT ALL THE SENSATIONS OF BEING EATEN (725) 726 THE OUTING MAGAZINE and condensed milk; a third containedour meager cooking outfit, coffee, sugar,bread, some fruit and a few eggs. Itwas a perplexed quartet that reachedthe lower end of that trail. There wasbut one case there—the one containingthe least food with the cooking utensils. I accused the Quartermaster and Docof neglecting to take them from thelaunch. They protested vehementlythat they did bring the other two casesand remembered distinctly placing themwith the other during the night. Emi-line was satisfied that hants tuhk um.No reply being forthcoming, he felt thathe had made a favorable impression andsuggested further that it wasnt half ashard to pull cayucas down hill as it wasto take them up. Hunger composed the major portionof my sensations by now, and I knewthe others were in the same condition.With lowered spirits we returned tocamp and set Emiline to get breakfastfrom the meager supply of food that waslef

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