Continuing to shout that Marcel was attacking them, the Lelacs landed their canoe and the elder son, evidently drunk, lurched toward the man who waited.
Driven by the racing current, the canoehad already left the Esquimos, following the shore, in the rear.
As he poled his canoe south through the shoals, he recalled the tales his father had told him of the marshes of Hannah Bay, the greatest breeding ground of the gray goose and black duck in all the wide north.
Leaving hiscanoe on the beach Marcel went at once to the Mission, where the door was opened by the priest.
He had been put in charge of a canoebound on Company business.
But Jean Marcel was a trapper, and the precious days before the ice would close the upper Whale and the Ghost to canoe travel were slipping past.
So close was the canoe that only by a miracle could Marcel hope to escape down-stream if they started shooting.
At daylight he went ashore, concealed his canoe behind some boulders, and trusting to Fleur's nose and ears to guard him from surprise, slept the sleep of exhaustion.
His canoe was out of reach on the cache with the Husky's kayak, and the clumsy skin umiak of the family was useless for quick work.
Urging Jean to get his fur-pack and smoked fish to his canoe at once, Kovik hurried down the shore to the knot of wildly excited Esquimos.
With all the power of his iron back and shoulders, Jean drove his canoe on the strong current; but Kovik had the Huskies in hand and they did not follow.
Thysia; at six days' canoe travel (forty-two leagues) from the Naktche.
The canoe was steered slowly, touched the rude wharf, and the cheer died in the throats of the throng.
Wawataysee scarcely breathed until the last canoe was but a dusky line on the river.
Around a wooded bend came a canoe filled with Indians.
A canoe was coming up swiftly, and yet there was no sign of gladness on the boats, no flags flying gayly.
The Tacana helmsman would throw the canoe beyond arrow-range, while the crew would cease paddling and call "Ai-i!
The canoe still made water, but we hoped farther down the river to exchange it.
There are fourteen of them scattered along the river for two or three hundred miles, and ordinarily only two can be run, the others being weary portages, and fourteen portages with a heavy mahogany canoe is no light, frivolous trip.
We would try, and the pilot swung the canoe for the crested wave and the channel.
Broadside on we darted for a second glassy slope of water, and only in the last moment did the canoe swing round so as to take it bow on, while the wave that broke over us half filled the canoe.
The batalon was a huge, heavy canoe, thirty feet in length, with a beam of about ten feet while the bow and stern were blunt, giving the canoe the effect of a pointed scow.
Varieties of water fowl dotted the water's edge in large flocks busily at breakfast and almost indifferent to the occasional straw or rather reed canoe of the Indians.
The inner bark of a tree that is used for calking, and which is always carried for such emergencies, could not keep the water down, and we were forced to beach the canoe for repairs.
Therefore, the Lake Titicaca Indian has evolved his reed canoe and boat.
My bigcanoe would take me only to the Falls of the Madeira, and yet it would be three months before the crew would return to Rurrenabaque on their slow trip against the current.
For the daily hunt the canoe was moored where the jungle met the river, but every evening at early sunset the camp was made at the edge of some broad, sandy playa as far from the forest as possible.
From the steady platform of the drifting canoe I fired, and missed.
With cocked rifles we waited for the gleam of eyeballs--to have fired without that much chance would have made the spring certain--and motionless the crew let the canoe drift past.
On these poles, when the wind commenced to blow the islanders sat, easing up and bearing down, according to the strength of the wind, so as to keep the canoe from capsizing.
This we call an outrigger; it was for the purpose of keeping the canoe balanced when the sail was hoisted.
These mats were lashed to the canoe and made the top of the deck as round as a log and perfectly water-tight.
You would think this deck a curious place to go to sea on, yet the native islanders were perched on both ends of the canoe on this deck with their paddles to row the canoewhen the wind did not blow.
Both ends of the canoe had boards fitted in as a sort of a deck, which was covered with mats.
In the center of the canoe a certain space was left for us to sit in, and sides were formed by lashing mats to some poles that were raised above the edge of the canoe.
The remains of a canoe made of the stringy bark were lying upon the shore, near the house whence the net had been taken.
How miserable a being would the latter be, his canoe taken from him, his stone hatchet blunted, his hut pervious to the smallest shower of rain, and few or no excavations in the rocks to fly to!
Came the vision of a distant shore sliding by, and the lower reach with a ferry steamer halfway across, and Belding felt the canoe lift and quiver, while a green wave flung its white crest in his face.
From the blockhouse window Clark had seen him since first the canoe approached the shore.
He saw the thirty-foot canoe lowered delicately into just such a lock as this, and automatically thrust out his own paddle to protect her tender tawny sides from the rough masonry.
The half breed brought the side of his canoe delicately against the sand and, stepping lightly out, began to unload, greeting Manson with a low-voiced "Good morning.
The canoe slid delicately forward till presently it floated in the tiny lock.
Presently he dipped his blade in the untroubled water, and the canoe backed out of the lock.
THE GIRL IN THE CANOE She stared at him with undisguised astonishment.
He put his back into his work and the canoe shot forward, reaching presently those long foam-flecked swells that mark the foot of the turmoil.
Thus for hours the canoe floated like a dry leaf in the unruffled corner of a hidden pool, and in it the ancient pair, dry themselves with the searching seasons of nearly a hundred years.
Then the middle span swept back overhead, he heard the river, split by the sharp piers, hissing along their rough sides and the canoe sailed like a leaf into the first smooth dip.
His face was fiery, not only from his full blooded habit but also from long canoe voyages.
After a little she pointed northward and the canoe edged into the big bay that stretched below, the works.
He smuggled liquor over the border by canoe loads, hiding it at convenient points, to exchange for log-drivers' wages.
Here he halted, and placing one hand scoop-fashion over his ear, listened intently until he caught the faint sound of a paddle touching a canoe gunwale.
At every bend of the stream his eyes were alert to catch the first sight of a down-coming canoe in time to conceal Chip, as he decided must be done.
When nightfall neared, he hauled his canoe out where a stretch of hard bank favored, and camped for the night, and when daylight came again, he pushed on.
Old Cy was trailing bigger game now; and when the point where they had left the canoe the day previous was reached, the canoe was pulled out on the stream's bank, the rifles only taken, and the trailing began.
And now began a canoe journey into and through a vast swamp, the upland border of which could scarce be seen.
Here, also, evidences of a canoe having been hauled up into the bog were visible.
To hide his canoe here, ascend this with pack and rifle, was the next move of this human panther, and here in a sheltering crevasse he lay and watched for his enemy.
Then as two trails led over, with only one returning, that proved he had made two trips across to carry his canoe and belongings and had not returned.
Growing bolder, as the days wore on, he hid his canoe below the outlet of the lake and taking advantage of this outcropping slate ledge with its many fissures, secreted himself and watched.
His canoe had been taken along by Martin's party, to be left at Tim's Place, for even Hersey would have scorned to appropriate it.
Levi was up early the next morning, and had the best canoe packed for a hurry trip ere breakfast was ready.
There is a narrow water-communication through the neck of land or isthmus, which can be passed through by a canoe in one day.
He had travelled by canoe during the night, but had been afraid to approach the sentries until daylight.
They now unlashed the arms of the prisoner, and insisted upon his paddling the canoe across the river.
The irregulars were concealed in the high grass close to the bank, and as the canoe touched the shore, they shot the two natives dead, and immediately secured it.
The canoe now pushed off from the bank, and paddled towards the apparently solitary native.
About 250 Shillooks came to assist us under the command of old Quat Kare, who sat in his canoe and directed his people.
They soon observed a canoeon the other side of the river, in which were two men.
During the second journey, as the canoe was passing a rock above some dangerous rapids, the native suddenly upset the boat by throwing his weight quickly to one side, and plunged the whole party in the river.
We'd better drag the canoe close to the tent, and be ready to start at a moment's notice.
And during the fight our canoeslipped down from its shoulder to its breast, and had the time of its life among the struggling waves.
The rent in the canoe was the only thing that seemed quite inexplicable; and, after all, it was conceivable that a sharp point had caught it when we landed.
And meanwhile, as he mended that torn canoe with the skill and address of a red Indian, I was glad to notice his absorption in the work, for there was a vague dread in my heart that he would speak of the changed aspect of the willows.
The canoe we had carefully covered with a waterproof sheet during the day, and the one remaining paddle had been securely tied by the Swede to the base of a tree, lest the wind should rob us of that too.
That afternoon, while the canoedried and hardened, we spent trying to fish, testing the leak, collecting wood, and watching the enormous flood of rising water.
The canoe still lay there as I had last seen her in the night, ribs uppermost, the paddles, or rather, the paddle, on the sand beside her.
I at once set the pitch melting, and presently the Swede joined me at the work, though under the best conditions in the world the canoe could not be safe for traveling till the following day.
It broke out into three arms, for one thing, that only met again a hundred kilometers farther down, and for a canoe there were no indications which one was intended to be followed.
Smith accepted the offer, and the canoe was brought.
He got into it with one of his men and some Indians; and then, ordering the rest of his men not to leave the big boat nor to go ashore during his absence, he set off in his canoe to explore the river higher up.
They made their camp at last across the river from Talimeco, and I with my women went out to meet them as a great Cacique should be met, in a canoe with an awning, with fan-bearers and flutes and drums.
That was a canoe trip, down the Scioto, down the O-hey-yo, up the Little Tenasa as far as Little River.
Lenni-Lenape, and the next thing I knew I was struggling in the river, bleeding freely from a knife wound, and somebody was pulling me into a canoe and safety.
Seated with him in the canoe were two little girls, attired in patriotic colors.
While a band played "The Stars and Stripes Forever," the spectators who lined the shore saw approaching from beneath the green foliage down the river a canoe paddled by a young man who wore the gay dress and war-paint of a Mohawk brave.
The canoe was paddled close to the eastern shore, and the three occupants drew aside the flag which concealed the marker, amid the applause of the spectators assembled on the banks.
Myself, with Joseph Brant, his wife and Child, and another Young Mohawk named James, went down in the new Canoe to our upper Corner.
Along the stretch of beach he ran eastward to the place where the lovers were already in the canoe awaiting him, and from this point Deerslayer pushed theircanoe to safety, yielding himself to capture.
The three in the canoe were lineal descendants of Revolutionary stock.
It was on the northern side of the projecting point that Hetty had landed on the errand just referred to, setting her canoe adrift.
Around this point Deerslayer gently propelled his canoe southward until he gained a view of the fire-lit camp, which the Hurons had moved from the region of Blackbird Bay to the southern slope of Three-Mile Point.
The trio in the canoe then drifted back down the river, and were soon lost to view beyond the overhanging branches.
Coming off from town, to-day, I took a canoe with a couple of Kroomen, who paddled down the river, till we arrived at a narrow part of the promontory.
Two of our boats were instantly despatched, and picked up three Kroomen, whose canoe had sunk, leaving them to the mercy of the current, which was rapidly drifting them towards the ocean.
The first canoe approached, and Prince Jumbo stepped boldly up the brig's side, but started back into his boat, the moment that he saw the guns and martial equipment on deck.
A large canoecame off, with a small English flag displayed, and a native in regimentals standing erect; a most unusual and inconvenient posture to be maintained in a canoe.
Six or eight miles further along the coast, the brig being under sail, another canoe came off with two natives, who were likewise secured.
A canoe being sent ashore, returned with a letter from the Rev.
In the canoe was a small bullock, tied by the feet, together with several ducks, chickens, kids, and plantains.
King George remarked that the other articles in the canoebelonged to the boys, and were for sale.
Into thecanoe she stepped and floated slowly down the river toward the great fish.
Her canoe came to the place where the great fin arose and stopped, its prow grating on the monster's back.
Make a new canoe of bark," she said, which was made for her.
Then Gaithel put his hands to his mouth and gave a peculiar call, and the people in the canoe heard it and came quickly to the shore.
Then Gaithel took Tig back to the lake, and they got into a canoe and rowed on the lake.
Also Tig saw, what he had never seen before, a canoe on the water, and some people paddling about in it.
In the canoe was a spear with a long, fine-pointed head made of bone, barbed on both sides.
But then a log canoe will outlast you four of the other, let alone being a deal more comfortable.
Illustration: Making a Canoe] “My uncle is making a canoe in the wood now,” said Gaithel.
The canoe landed, the strangers stepped ashore and disappeared.
The canoe had now reached the beach and Jack and the black assistant climbed in.
The canoe ran alongside the schooner, and having discharged its passengers and freight, put off for its return to shore.
The canoe swept alongside the schooner and Jack, grasping a chain, swung himself up into the channel, whence he climbed to the bulwark rail and dropped down on the deck.
As the canoebounded forward, Jack suddenly caught the sound of the schooner's windlass pawl.
We were going to take the complete test--upset the canoe, undress in deep water, right the canoe and paddle back to shore.
We got out where the water was over our heads and upset the canoewith a fine splash.
Sahwah and I wanted to get an honor for upsetting a canoe and righting it again, so we put on our skirts and middies over our bathing suits and paddled out into deep water.
There was no firelight there, and no one saw me when I entered a canoe and cut the rope and pushed off from the land.
As I drove my boat in between the sloop of the commander of Shirley Hundred and the canoe of the Nansemond werowance, the two bells then newly hung in the church began to peal and the drum to beat.
There was no use in sulkiness; we laughed as at some huge jest, and bent to the task with a will that sent our canoe well in advance of its mate.
An Indian rowing in the second canoe commenced a chant or prayer to Okee.
Make a sketch of the scene described in the second stanza, showing the winding river, with its high banks appearing to meet in the distance, the man in his canoe in the foreground, and over all the dim light of early morning.
Instantly the rising flood seized the canoe and sent her flying madly downstream.
He had spent the whole summer in Alaska, and could handle a canoe as well as most boys of his age.
As it tightened, the canoe was drawn away from under him, and he, dragged over the stern, was struggling in the rushing water.
Once or twice the river contracted dangerously between walls of rock, and the canoe pitched and plunged among foam-tipped waves.
But he had not taken six strokes before he realized that two strong men could not have paddled the canoe back against the flood that was now coming down.
Guess there's been a cloud burst up in the hills," said Nick to himself as he turned the bow of the canoe upstream.
What he hoped was that some freak of the current would drive the canoe near enough to the bank to catch hold of a branch and so pull himself ashore.
The canoe shot like an arrow toward the lip of the fall.
The shriek of the tortured waters rang high above the roar of the flood which bore the canoe onward to its doom.
The only thing to do was to get across, land anywhere he could, pull the canoe up, and walk back.
Suddenly the water lost its crystal clearness, and turned to a yellow, muddy hue, and the canoe began to strain at her anchor rope.
So they set out; and the canoe brought them straightway to the land of the Golden Pillars, without delay and without mishap.
The canoe was not unmindful of the voice of its master, and obeyed the command without delay, according to its wont.
Accordingly they went on board their canoe, bringing with them every part of the fine they had gotten already; and the canoe glided swiftly over the waves to Erin.
They gazed sadly after them, till they lost sight of the canoe over the utmost verge; and no one can tell whither they went, for Connla was never again seen in his native land.
And then he spoke to the canoe, "Thou canoe of Mannanan, thou Sweeper of the waves, we ask thee and we command thee, that thou sail straightway to the Garden of Hisberna!
He ceased, however, at the bidding of Ethnea, who told him that the canoe would turn out large enough when they came to try it, and that it was under strict command not to let any one grumble at its smallness.
Then they went on board their ship--for they had Mannanan's canoe no longer--and they sailed forth on the green billowy sea to search for the Island of Fincara.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canoe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
