She required eleven hours on our trip.

Under conditions then obtaining, it took me a day and a half more to reach Lake Ontario.

Here, happily, I picked up a frail steam craft, owned by an adventurous soul who was not unwilling to risk his life and that of others on the uncertain and ice-filled waters of Ontario.

With him I negotiated to carry me with others down the St.
Lawrence.

At that time, of course, the Lachine Canal was not completed, and the Victoria Bridge was not even conceived as a possibility.