Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:
Now here are my wise young neighbors who instead of getting like the wordmen into a railroad-car where they have not even the activity of holding the reins, have got into a boat which they have built with their own hands, with sails which they have contrived to serve as a tent by night, & gone up the river Merrimack to live by their wits on the fish of the stream & berries of the wood.
(Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 7:238)
