Word: barking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trips in foreign Iands is directly traceable the great popularity which this most delightful of sports now enjoys-indeed he is styled and justly so, the father of modern canoe cruising. Previous to that time the canoe was popularly known in only its original types, the birch bark and the more primitive dugout. Its utility for hunting purposes was recognized, but the making of long cruises, running rapids and riding heavy seas, things which are now an every day experience, were never dreamt of, and considering the canoe's then far from perfect state, would have proved difficult and dangerous...
While drifts our bark. We too shall drift...
While drifts our bark, we too shall drift...
...regular contributor to Life, the Detroit Free Press, Texas Siftings and the Continent. Mr. Lummis is at present engaged in writing a work on the "History of the Use of Tobacco," as well as preparing a second volume of his "White Mountain Sketches," and also of his "Birch Bark Poems." He is also engaged in editing the Scioto, (Ohio) Gazette...
...bark Bulwark from Yokohama bound to Puget Sound foundered at sea March 1. Eighteen men were lost...