Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — FOR LOVE OF ADVENTURE. [ARTICLE]

FOR LOVE OF ADVENTURE.

Four Thousand Five Hundred Miles in a Canoe. |New Orleans dispatch.] Two brothers, from Pittsfield, Mass., \V. E. and H. F. Hermance, aged respectively twenty-three and eighteen years, arrived in the city yesterday from Livingston, Mont., having traveled the distance of 4,500 miles in an open, light canoe, since July 4, 1885. The trip was made purely for love of adventure. The hardships of the trip have a romantic color, but, beyond a little spell of sickness, they have made the long voyage in safety, although they had unwelcome adventures with Indians and blizzards. The Eda is fifteen feet long, thirty-four inches beam, is made of yellow pine, and is provided with dry storage compartments. They are provided with a gun and cooking utensiLs, and camped out every night. The cable cars in Kansas City carry weather signals.