But whither go our Boy Hunters in their birch-bark canoe?
The birch-bark canoe is so frail a structure, that, were it brought rudely in contact either with the bottom or the bank, it would be very much damaged, or might go to pieces altogether.
I have not yet answered the question as to where our Boy Hunters were journeying in their birch-bark canoe.
This gum is a species of pitch, and is one of the most necessary materials in the making of a bark canoe.
After having left this place some time, we discovered a bark canoe ahead; we gained on it for some time, when it turned a point about 300 yards before, and on our turning it also, it had entirely disappeared.
Mr. Frazer and myself took a bark canoe, and went up to the village, in order to see Mr. Cameron.
Opposite the mouth of Crow river [present name] we found a bark canoe cut to pieces with tomahawks, and the paddles broken on shore; a short distance higher up we saw five more, and continued to see the wrecks until we found eight.
I daresay, Master Cap, that the advice of as old a seaman as you might have done no harm to as young a sailor as myself, but it is a long and a hopeless chase that has a bark canoe in it.
Surely it is not possible for a bark canoe to go over that mighty cataract?
You do not understand our lake navigation at all, if you suppose it an easy matter to force a bark canoe ashore.
I have often crossed Ontario in a bark canoe, even when there has been a good deal of sea on.
At length we all embarked in a large birch-bark canoe.
The party of eight whites packed themselves and their goods into one birch-bark canoe.
A birch-bark canoe is an exceedingly tender craft, which is not only certain of destruction if it strikes a rock, but is pretty sure of being swamped if it even grazes one.
General details of birch-bark canoe construction, in a drawing by Adney.
Drawing by Adney for his article "How an Indian Birch-Bark Canoe is Made.
Sketch: Fiddlehead of scraped bark on bow and stern of a Montagnais birch-bark canoe at Seven Islands, Que.
Lines of an old birch-bark canoe, probably Micmac, brought to England in 1749 from New England.
We cannot keep at it all day and all night, as we could in a bark canoe.
Skirting the shore of Lake Superior in a bark canoerequires no small amount of patience.
In silence the two plied their paddles under the hot sun, but the heavy wooden boat did not respond like a bark canoe to their efforts.
A pretty poetical thing is a birch-bark canoe, as it leaps down a sparkling river among its native birch woods, but too frail a craft for a long journey in the rockbound country beyond the line where timber grows.
For this wild land of broad lakes and rapid rivers and winding creeks, the birch- bark canoe is the boat of all others most admirably fitted.
The craft, although only a frail birch-bark canoe, was not in the least injured.
As a matter of course--though so feminine and far removed from all appearance of coarseness, a true American girl in this respect--Margery knew perfectly well how to manage a bark canoe.
Michigan is a large body of water, and a bark canoe is but a frail craft to put to sea in, when there is any wind or commotion.
The Indians are not very skilful in the use of sails, while the bee- hunter knew how to manage a bark canoe in rough water, with unusual skill.
Margery and Dorothy could no longer control their feelings, and each rose in her seat, raising her body so as to bring her head above the gunwale of the canoe, if a bark canoe can be said to have a gunwale at all.
Chatsworth is better than a wigwam, and a seventy-four is a finer thing than a bark canoe.
You shall confess ere long that the Roman emperor, who proclaimed a reward for the discovery of a new pleasure, ought to have made a voyage down Lake Huron in a birch-bark canoe.
The Indian birch-bark canoe is pre-eminently characteristic of Canada.
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