Fangati, flying down the hillside, reported that the canoes had entered the lagoon by the gap in the reef and had now passed from sight.
Maku instantly sent Fangati up to examine the vessels, and when by and by she declared that they were canoes from her own island the old man shook with fright.
On learning the state of affairs, he sent the steamer along the shore to the spot where the native canoes were beached, drove off the infuriated natives with a warning shot from his brass gun, and had the canoes towed out to sea.
Only when they saw the canoes departing would it be safe to venture down again.
One afternoon, however, Mary was startled on reaching the summit to see in the distance a small fleet of native canoes approaching the island.
These canoes are filled with rice and other fruits of the earth, and the four pairs of mice are then escorted to the sea-shore just as if it were a real wedding.
The canoes shot off in different directions, and in a few minutes were deployed all around it.
The canoes now separated; and in a short while each of them were seen coursing quietly along the edge of some islet, one of its occupants leaning inward, and scrutinising the narrow belt of sand that bordered the water.
Here some twenty or thirty ubas (canoes hollowed out of tree-trunks) floated on the water, ready to receive the hunters.
The canoeswere paddled as slowly and silently as possible.
In the circle of canoes that surrounded the island, there was perfect silence; each had a spot to guard, and each hunter sat, with arms ready, and eyes keenly fixed on the foliage of the underwood opposite his station.
At the same time several other canoeswere seen shooting forward to the spot.
As their boats entered the Orinoco they espied three canoes manned by natives, who, when they saw the English, paddled fast away westward towards Guiana, thinking they were Spaniards.
On swept the boat, our men pulling her through the water, though still stern foremost, at a pace such as she had rarely travelled before, and on crowded the canoes after us, spread out athwart the stream in the form of a crescent.
There were sixteen morecanoes in the line; and altogether they presented the appearance of a very formidable barrier.
The canoes were just at about the right distance to give these murderous discharges their utmost possible effect, and the carnage among the thickly-crowded craft was simply indescribable.
Canoes are all drawn up on the beach above high water mark.
On June 6th a fleet of thirty canoes arrived from Fort Simpson, bringing nearly three hundred souls; in fact nearly the whole of one tribe, the Keetlahn, with two chiefs.
Scores of gracefulcanoes were drawn above the tide.
I have other public works in view, such as fixing proper rests for canoes when unemployed, laying slides for moving canoes on the beach and into the water at low tides, also sinking wells and procuring pumps for public use, etc.
When ready to start, the church bell rang, and they paddled their canoes to our meeting-house, which is built upon the beach.
Bands of evangelists from the settlement frequently went up the coast in canoes to the Fort on Saturday to hold services on the Sunday, and their efforts received a manifest blessing.
The Indians who took up the trade with their canoes have also been stopped.
These modern yacht-like canoes are really improved kyaks, and in their construction we are much indebted to the experience of the inhabitants of the Arctic Circle.
The illustrations given of English canoes are from imported models, and are perfect of their type.
Canoes built for one person are generally too light for such occupancy when out of water.
Having concluded this preliminary part of the business, five cards are dealt to each player.
When they are completed the deal is transferred to the left of the last dealer, who begins again with the first round.
To this card each player adds one of his own, the result being that the sixteen cards are equally divided among the three players and the crib.
A party, consisting of four, divide into couples as at Whist.
A full pack of fifty-two cards are required, and any number of persons may play, though some players think it better that the number should not exceed six or seven.
Any number up to twelve may play, though four is the preferable number.
In the case of two players having equal points towards game, the elder hand of the two scores.
The elder hand having decided on his hand, plays a card from any suit he likes, but must not beg more than once, unless a special agreement has been made that he should do so.
Exchanging or playing the seven of trumps counts 10.
Brannan's men had cut out canoes from immense poplars and launched them in Battle Creek out of sight.
Reynolds collected boats at Shellmound, Brannan had built rafts and cut out canoes at the mouth of Battle Creek.
Within a quarter of an hour the light bark canoes were speeding toward the harbor mouth, big brown arms manning the paddles vigorously.
In an incredibly short space of time the restless savages were coming up the beach with their canoes on their shoulders, heading straight for the opening through which the moonlight streamed.
There are a lot of canoescoming in from everywhere, so they say--fifty Cree boats from their camp.
When he calls time for meals, the men from the other boats take turns in putting out in canoes and going to the cook-boat for meals.
Starting in the morning at sunrise, the canoes took us six miles by seven o'clock, when we stopped in the woods for breakfast.
The canoes arrived about sunset, having come twelve miles since noon against a strong current.
The next morning we started in wagons for Matapedia, thirty miles up the river, where we expected to secure canoes and Indians for our trip to the upper waters of the Restigouche.
Before the boat touched the shore, the natives flocked down to the beach, and thirtycanoes surrounded the vessel, all filled with the wondering Indians.
As they sailed up the river the Indians put out from the shore in their canoes and paddled up to the Half Moon.
The canoe in which the princess sat was fastened to this one, and then they started, followed by several other canoes in which were the most noted warriors of the tribe.
The guides left them as soon as their canoes floated into the current of the larger river, and then their voyage began in earnest.
The sea was heavy, and the canoes were capsized more than once, but they reached the islands at last, only to find that the natives were thronging the beach ready to drive them off as quickly as they should land.
I need food for my people andcanoes and rafts to cross the river, and I beg you to help me.
Joliet and Marquette sprang from their canoes and started up the path, while the rest of the party remained on the river to guard against surprise.
Some of the canoes were very long and could carry ten or twelve men.
Double canoes of this kind were used in New Zealand formerly, also in New Caledonia.
On the Kitangule, west of Lake Victoria Nyanza, near Karague, he describes the canoes as being hollowed out of a log of timber 15 feet long and the breadth of an easy-chair.
As we approach the Arctic regions, the dug-out and bark canoes are replaced by canoes of skin and wicker.
Such a mode of constructing canoes might serve well enough for river navigation, but would be unserviceable for sea craft.
Livingstone says the canoes of the Bayeye of South Africa are hollow trees, made for use and not for speed.
These kind of canoes are also used by the Makoba east of Lake Ngami, by the Apingi and Camma, and the Krumen of the West African coast; of which last, No.
These canoes have names given to them like European vessels.
In Samoa the canoes are built with bow and stern, and the outrigger is pointed towards the fore part only.
In Europe Pliny mentions the use of canoes hollowed out of a single tree by the Germans.
The canoes of the Solomon Isles and other islands are, however, also ornamented with shells in different parts.
In South America the Patagonians use no canoes, but in the northern parts of the continent dug-out canoes are common.
Professor Wilson says that several dug-out canoes have been found in the ancient river-deposits of the Clyde, and also in the neighbourhood of Falkirk.
It is probable that this mode of bending canoes has been discovered during the process of cooking, in which red-hot stones are used in many countries to boil the water in vessels of skin or wood, in which the meat is cooked.
Myriads and myriads of Indian canoes like flocks of waterfowl seemed swarming everywhere, whilst from two to three hundred bateaux conveyed the French and Canadian soldiers.
The next morning they put the canoes into the water; the paddles dipped, and the half-dozen houses of the village dropped out of sight behind the pines.
We ought to have come with two or three canoes and with twice as much grub, and we should have brought several pairs of boots apiece.
Sometimes they could paddle, more often they had to pole, and frequently they were forced either to carry, or else to wade and "track" the canoes up the current.
I was just thinking about the funeral canoes and the Potlatch.
As the trader turned toward the beach and walked to the canoes now landing in the dusk, he smiled to think how neatly he had nipped in the bud any possible romance between Gregg and Jean.
The shimmering path from its glow threw into silhouette the prows of the big canoes drawn up on the beach.
When Shane finally landed at a cannery fifty miles from Katleean the boat was abandoned and they were taken to the trading post in the canoesof some fishing Indians.
In his dejection his thoughts went back time and again to those few moments of silent companionship when he had stood beside the girl in the dusk and watched the funeral canoes come in.
She stood a moment pointing out the reason for the flutter of white, and as she did so a group of Indians landing from canoes on the beach, came up the trail toward the post.
His eyes were fixed on three Indian canoes being paddled in from the lagoon across the bay which was now taking on the opalescent tints of the late Alaska sunset.
In the gloom a hundred blanket-covered canoes lined the crescent beach that sloped gently upward to a strip of gravel before the row of Indian houses.
With a glow of pleasure he recognized it,--the lament of the funeral canoes at Katleean, but with something else added, something that made him feel the mystery and the weirdness and the elemental call of the North.
Gulls floated high on lavender wings, their intermittent plaint answering the Indian voices that drifted up from the beach where the canoes were landing.
There was laughing and merriment with the feast, and when it was all over, the canoes floated away as they had come, into the sunset, which gilded all the sea to rosy, golden beauty.
As the canoes landed their occupants, the dancers thronged to welcome their guests.
As the canoes reached the shallows, the shore Indians dashed into the water to draw them up to land, and the company was joyously received.
Teddy was delighted, for in one of the canoes was his father, whom he had not seen for several weeks.
There was a great deal of pride in his tone and look, and he received a warm welcome as the canoes touched land and their occupants sprang on shore.
The canoes were all gaily decorated, and they came swiftly onward to the weird chant of the paddlers, which the breeze wafted to the listeners' ears in a monotonous melody.
Tyee Klake was giving a feast to the people of the neighbouring islands, and a dozen canoes glided over the water from different directions.
The rising moon shed her silvery light upon the calm waters, and heaven's stars shone down into its quiet depths, as the canoes with their dusky freight parted the glittering rays with their light paddles.
Once we left Rice Lake in the fall, and ascended the river in canoes as far as Belmont Lake.
Among the Maoris boats or canoes which were cast adrift became the property of the captors.
He has made rafts orcanoes for fishing or crossing over to neighbouring fertile islands.
In places timber-falls blocked the passage of the narrow stream, and the boats and canoes were portaged around.
In the cool season the girls used to come down and visit me in Hilo, where Dad had two houses, one at the beach, or the three of us used to go down to our place in Puna, and that meant canoes and boats and fishing and swimming.
He had had the couch taken out on the veranda, and he was lying on it when the canoes paddled in and hauled out on the beach.
Those Malaita canoes are always raiding down that way, and you know what that Port Adams lot is.
And all afternoon he and Joan loafed in the cool of the veranda and watched them diving down and emptying their sunken canoes of the sand and rocks.
The canoes themselves, splintered and broken, filled with sand and coral- boulders, were towed out to ten fathoms of water and sunk.
They swear there were two hundred war canoes around her inside half an hour, and five thousand bushmen on the beach.
Many trading vessels were riding at anchor off the city, and canoesof various sizes and design were passing to and from them.
It was a sharp one, and left her very weak, but as soon as she was sufficiently strong to travel they started in canoes for Abeokuta.
For thirteen days they explored in canoes the eastern shore of the newly-discovered lake, coming at last to the mouth of Somerset or Victoria Nile.
The two parties were now within less than a hundred yards of each other, and it seemed doubtful whether the large canoes would clear the eastern boat without trouble.
Boats and canoes were all speedily hauled up, and the commander of the party, with delicate attention, handed Edith out, and then gave orders to his men to follow him, which was effected with rapidity and precision.
The yells and whoops of the Hurons still continued, and their canoescame rushing nearer, so that one danger seemed only to be escaped to encounter a still greater.
The great-winged canoes are coming up Corlear very quick; but I think my words must have been whispered in the French chief's ear, to cause them to fly so quickly to Ticonderoga.
When all had disembarked, the canoes were drawn safely up under concealment of the bushes on either side, and the voyageurs pushed off, and took their way up the lake again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
