Month: July 2007

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Around Lake Wener, 1907, pages 12 to 29: ‘The bacon, by the way, we had condemned and buried at the last camp. I hope no-one found it and invented a tragedy to account for its discovery, but certainly the finder, if there was one, must have had a gruesome experience!’

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Around Lake Wener, 1907: ‘The Bee, Bill’s boat, was a ten-foot sailing dinghy built by Marsh of Reading. For this cruise, she had bulkhead put in at the midship thwart, a bit of deck from the mast forward, and a Willesden canvas hood from this to the bulkhead. The Earwig was, as has been mentioned already, a home-made canoe, fourteen feet by three, watertight fore and aft, and with a well just under three feet long.’

To be continued…

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