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Example sentences for "large canoe"

  • A large canoe, containing five and twenty Indians, put off towards his ships, but finally its occupants lay upon their paddles a bowshot away.

  • A large canoe, eight feet beam, and of great length, though made of a single log, approached with still stranger people in it.

  • King Boy, with three of his women, and his suite in a large canoe, and our people and myself in a smaller one.

  • All was in fact ready on the appointed day, and we were about to load the canoes, when toward midday, we saw a large canoe, with a flag displayed at her stern, rounding the point which we called Tongue Point.

  • A very curious tradition respecting the first appearance of white men on the coast was related some years ago to Mr. Duncan by an old chief:-- "A large canoe of Indians were busy catching halibut in one of these channels.

  • On 2nd July I left Metlakahtla in a large canoe, paddled by five Kincolith Indians, to visit the C.

  • To proceed: you state that you then go in search of the prahu which you ordered away, and that on your way you captured a large canoe, which you take in tow, and afterwards perceive the pirates hauling their vessel into a creek.

  • On their way they fell in with a large canoe, at anchor in one of the creeks.

  • We got under weigh and proceeded down the river accompanied by a large canoe, which was occupied by the rajah's son, six or seven hunters, and a pack of the dogs used in hunting the wild boar on this island.

  • Scercily landed before we were visited by a large Canoe with 8 men; from them we obtained a dried fruit which resembled the raspberry and which I beleave is the fruit of the large leafed thorn frequently mentioned.

  • Whitehouse & my man York in a large Canoe, with an Indian whome I hired for a Sun glass to accompany me as a pilot.

  • Suppose that forming a large Canoe with an enstriment like this was the work of Several years; but those people make them in a fiew weeks.

  • Setting out 7 Squars came over loaded with Dried fish, and bear grass neetly bundled up, Soon after 4 Indian men came down over the rapid in a large canoe.

  • The Governor's lieutenant boarded us in a large canoe, paddled by about a score of blacks.

  • A message was sent on shore to the King, who came off in a large canoe, and set his hand to a treaty, promising to keep good faith with American vessels.

  • He embarked in a large canoe on a trading voyage, along the southern coast of that country, a distance of about two degrees.

  • He told me I must pay him the same price I had paid the Indians who had left me here--ten yards of check cloth to each man, and ten additional yards for the hire of a large canoe belonging to himself.

  • Much of his description is not clear, but it seems evident that the canoe described was very much like the later grand canot, or large canoe, of the fur trade.

  • He agreed with me, and sent five able Indians with a large canoe to carry my things to my intended place, about fifty miles; and we set off the next morning.

  • I got every thing ready for my departure, and hired some Indians, with a large canoe, to carry me off.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    large birds; large black; large bowl; large brick; large characters; large company; large country; large diameter; large estate; large excess; large eyes; large fleet; large mouth; large plain; large platter; large profit; large quantity; large size; large stock; large volume; largely because; largely used; larger force; larger measure; larger proportion; rather small