A delightful story in 8 pictures, taken from ‘The Graphic’, an illustrated weekly newspaper dated Saturday 6 November 1880. Unfortunately, there are no details of the artist, nor does there appear to be any text. Of interest, are the use of oars with rowlocks, and of single bladed paddles and this at one and the same time. One is left wondering just what ‘the Rob Roy Manoeuvre’ was - drawing, prying, or simply shooting a rapid. It also appears from the drawings, that the canoe was a take-apart design. In later editions of MacGregor’s ‘A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe’, the author tells us in the Appendix under ‘Portable Canoes’ that “A wooden canoe in four pieces is easily made, although somewhat heavy. The additional expense is soon saved, if the canoe is taken often by railway as a box.”
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