One of our missionaries, who was one of the best canoemen in the country, was conceited enough to imagine, that the beautiful cedar canoe of the white man was superior to the birch-bark ones of the natives.
Generally two skilful Indian canoemen were my companions, one of whom was called, "the guide.
When my canoemen had time to prepare the bear's feet and boil them they were quite a luxury.
After the English took control of Canada and the fur trade, a large number of Iroquois removed into Quebec and were employed by the English fur traders as canoemen and as canoe builders.
In Christopherson's service, sail was rarely used, as the canoemen were unskilled in handling it and loss had resulted.
All the important bands within the tribal group were expert canoemen and builders.
Hence there were very few recorded instances of battles in canoes; these took place only when sudden meetings occurred without preparation on either side, such as when war parties surprised canoemen in narrow waters.
The Koryaks are not daringcanoemen and do not venture into rough water.
This is especially the case when they are employed as canoemen or dog-drivers.
They had reached perhaps half the distance, when Menard saw that two of his canoemen had exchanged glances and were looking toward the shore.
His canoemen checked their swing, for the beach was close at hand, and then backed water.
They swung out into the lake, the wiry arms and shoulders of the canoemen knotting with each stroke of the paddles; and the crowd of Indians stood on the shore gazing after until they had passed from view beyond a wooded point.
Vérendrye's canoemen a month to coast from the Straits of Mackinaw to Kaministiquia, which they reached on the 26th of August, seventy-eight days after they had left Montreal.
Having been a servant of the Nor'westers he knew the value of Canadian canoemen in the fur trade, and, on his advice, the Hudson's Bay Company now imitated its rival by employing voyageurs.
Indians regularly employed by the North-West Company were engaged as canoemen and guides.
The canoemen were mainly French-Canadian coureurs de bois, gay voyageurs on lake and stream.
Possibly these canoemenaccompanied Selkirk on the first stages of his journey.
On the contrary, the canoemen always broke camp about four o'clock in the morning, and they kept going until about seven at night.
The submerged branch of this tree, swinging up and down in the violent current, made one of the dangerous "sweepers" which canoemen dread.
Rifles, accoutrements, were disembarked, and the canoemen were ordered to pass their canoes down the left branch.
On the 11th we marched about a mile to give the canoemen a chance to pole their vessels through the rapids and the column a rest.
This was what the children delighted to call "The Rapids," but old canoemen simply dubbed it "a stretch of swift water.
When at last the rush was over, the sounds grew softer, and the triumphant canoemen drew their good craft in to shore, and paused to rest their tired muscles, Dora gave a deep sigh of relief.
Then someone struck up a voyageurs' ballad and the canoemen unconsciously kept time with the beat of the song.
A man on a less venturesome quest than mine could hardly have set out with the brigades of canoemen for the north country and not have been thrilled like a lad on first escape from school's leading strings.
At nightfall the fourth day from the shrine, after a tiresome nine-mile traverse past the Chaudière Falls of the Ottawa, glittering camp-fires on the river bank ahead showed where a fresh relay of canoemen awaited us.
I found one of my canoemen had your lost fowling-piece, and it was he who had listened and carried off the drunk sot and tried to send that spear-head into me at the Sault.
Thus, for example, the native canoemen and porters engaged by Henry for his winter hunts were paid each at the rate of a hundred pounds weight of beaver skins.
I'll handle the canoemen and pick up the fur, and then I've got to drop down the river and run in the supplies.
And, without waiting for a reply, turned and followed the two canoemeninto the brush.
Darkness settled, and at a word from Lapierre, fires flared out on the beach and in the clearing, and by their light the long line of canoemen conveyed the pieces upon their heads into the wide door of the storehouse.
As different from the half-breeds and Indian canoemen with whom she had been thrown as his speech was from the throaty guttural by means of which they exchanged their primitive ideas.
Upon a level plateau at the top of the high bank that slants steeply to the water of the Yellow Knife River, a short distance above its mouth, Lapierre set the canoemen to cutting the timber and brush from a wide area.
I am going to take two of the canoemen and return in all haste to your school.
And so, pushing his canoemen to the limit of their endurance, he overtook her as she talked with MacNair by the side of his mother's grave.
The canoemen picked up their paddles, and the canoe swung into its course and disappeared around a point.
The canoemen bound heavy stones to the legs of the dead Indian, laid the body upon the camp equipage amidship, and silently took their places.
As he talked, two of the canoemen made up light packs from the outfit of the wrecked canoe.
It was obviously patent that the canoemenshared Lapierre's fear and hatred of MacNair.
He turned a deaf ear to the frantic clamourings of those who had been unable to secure the wonderful bargains, and ordering his canoemen to paddle down the lake some two or three hundred yards, deliberately prepared to camp.
The remaining canoemen were outfitted with surprising celerity.
In pursuance of this design, Angélique had already sent for a couple of Indian canoemen to embark Fanchon at the quay of the Friponne and convey her to St. Valier.
The greatest animation at once arose in our flotilla; the canoemen bending themselves to their paddles, the auxiliary Indians of our party shouting, and the whole party assuming an unwonted excitement.
Our third day's ascent witnessed no diminution of the strength and alacrity with which our canoemen urged our way up the stream.
The winds were high and adverse, which caused the canoemen to toil two hours in crossing.
By the time we had well seen the falls, and made some sketches and notes, the indefatigable canoemen announced our baggage all carried over the portage, and the canoes put into the water.
I was not successful in connecting these ruins on the Rio Tinaja with the name of Chacujál, until one of my canoemen whom I was questioning on the subject, after repeating the name several times exclaimed "Chaki-jal!
At the Paso Real I was fortunately able to secure as guide one of the canoemen who had accompanied Prof.
Then that is why all the canoemen have been so distant and servile with me to-day," said the young surgeon.
The other canoemen at once abandoned their paddling and stood expectant, spear in hand.
These became more and more angry, and at last refused to answer Smyth, who thereupon, for peace' sake, told his canoemen to paddle on.
In due time she was towed as far as the low bank and the six men were taken aboard; but Mr. Colton never again trusted himself down a strange river with canoemen who knew no more about it than he.
The canoemen were dipping their paddles lazily, and Mansfield himself was inclined to doze, for it was getting towards the middle of the day, when a horrified whisper, which he could not catch, passed from mouth to mouth.
By the goal nearest the water, the absent canoemen were standing, a goodly heap of game piled at their feet.
As the canoemen held on with their paddles and shot by through spume and rain, every soul in the boat exulted except the woman who lay flat on its keel.
His canoemen would hardly camp with her, and he had no provisions.
The fact that the Mohawk canoemen were painted for war suggested the possibility of a large war-party somewhere near at hand.
Once the canoemen had disappeared around a long wooded arm of the shore, the Delawares left the willows, and hurried through the woods in pursuit of them.
The lads were fearful of colliding with the canoemen who had disembarked on their side of the river, and they determined to hide themselves until darkness made it safe to advance.
They saw that the faces of the canoemen were streaked with black.
In a few moments they saw two of the Mohawk canoemen returning along the trail.
Canoemen on the Upper Amazons live in constant dread of the "terras cahidas," or landslips, which occasionally take place along the steep earthy banks, especially when the waters are rising.
Santarem is worse provided with Indian canoementhan any other town on the river.
Both were intrepid canoemen and huntsmen, and both perfectly at home anywhere in these fearful wastes of forest and water.
For several days after this most of the party trudged on foot carrying the cargo, while four of the most experienced canoemen brought the empty canoe down the rapids.
Once, however, when Mackenzie and Mackay had gone ahead on foot to reconnoitre, ordering the canoemen to paddle along behind, the canoe failed to follow.
So swift is the river in these parts (and in fact it is extremely rapid during its entire course), that the native canoemen use no other method in ascending it, except for very short distances.
When required, however, they can go at a speed that few canoemen in the world, savage or civilized, can equal.
So it happened that Jean and Ronald, expert canoemen and eager to make the Superior trip, had been engaged with three others.
Even for skilled canoemen there was danger enough.
Before the canoemen drew near enough to speak to them, the boys were making their way towards the post.
Desertion from the fleet was a serious matter, for the canoemen were under strict contract, and the guilty man was liable to heavy punishment.
Jean Havard and Ronald Kennedy had come to the Grande Portage, on the northwest shore of Lake Superior, ascanoemen in the service of the Northwest Fur Company.
Then the canoemen had to remain in camp on shore or island, sometimes for a few hours, sometimes for days.
Now, Sol, we'll turn down stream and paddle with all our might, showing what canoemen we really are!
The light but strong craft touched the bank gently, and the six canoemen stepped out, a figure that appeared among the bushes confronting them.
There seemed but one thing to do, and that was to hide in the woods until the canoemen passed.
The actions of the distant canoemen confirmed his fears.
He feared that other canoemen were concealed along the opposite side of the river.
When this was partaken of, Mrs Ross and the young people embarked in their capacious canoe for the return trip, and under the vigorous paddling of their four canoemen reached Sagasta-weekee before midnight.
The faithful canoemen were well paid and given a capital supper in the kitchen, and then dismissed to their several homes.
Sam's canoemenat length saw an unguarded place and so dashed in alongside the big fellow, and at the right minute the Indian steering called out to Sam: "Now give it to him in the neck, close up to his head.
So evenly matched were the canoemen that they were not far apart when they arrived at the designated locality.
Fast as the reindeer can swim, Indian canoemen can paddle their canoes much faster, and so it was not long ere the deer were overtaken.
Ignorant of this, as soon as he observed a large sturgeon not far ahead of him he quietly indicated by signs to the canoemen which way he wished them to paddle, so as to bring him close enough to spear the fish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canoemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
