Evidently his friends who helped him to escape were canoe-men.

I arranged things for taking a canoe elège on the next day, and proceeding rapidly down the river to its junction with the main St. Croix and Yellow River, in order to meet my engagements, made by a runner from La Pointe.

It was raining heavily as the men started to explore in different directions for good canoe trees.

She made many canoe trips back and forth.

Their party had had two canoes; and here was a canoe-rest, on which the daubs of red ochre, and the roots of trees used to fasten or tie it together appeared fresh.

The program consisted of contests in swimming and diving, canoe upsetting and righting, demonstrations of rescue work, stunts and small canoe races, and ended up with a race between the two war canoes.

This camp was daily supplied with meat and vegetables, even more than could be consumed, and several canoe-loads were sent off to the ships.

The doctor bought a handsome trumpeter bird, very friendly and confiding, which was thenceforth my canoe companion.

He succeeded in gaining his feet, though the current was waist high, and recovered his fowling piece, but irretrievably lost his canoe-compass, a nautical balanced instrument, and everything besides.

Sahwah won the canoe tipping contest, getting her canoe righted in one minute less time than it took Undine Girelle, so the first score went to the Alley.

" They would have need of good canoe-craft before the journey's end, the villagers told them.

Her canoe dances lightly over the St. Peter's, and her companions try in vain to keep up with her.

When he had gone some distance and the hotel and houses began to melt into the background, he stopped and let the canoe drift.

She saw them bind him, and stand waiting; she saw a canoe glide out of the darkness; she saw the occupants of the canoe disembark; she saw them exhibit her little rifle, and heard them explain in Cree, that they had followed the man swimming.

As I was saying, one would almost have thought that what with picnicking in the bush all day and trapesing around in a canoe half the night and having to stay where she wasn't expected and wouldn't like to ask the loan of the flat-irons" "Please, Mrs. Sykes, don't let Ann eat another biscuit.

" "The canoe hesitates and beckons again," said Robert, "and, as sure as we are here, the skies have turned somewhat darker.

" Corbeille had been the objective of our proposed canoe journey.

In the same month, on the other hand, two friendly Indians, who had a canoe laden with peltry, were murdered on the Holston by a couple of white ruffians, who then attempted to sell the furs.

"Now," continued Miss Harson, "I am going to read you an account of canoe-making, and of some other uses to which the bark is put: "'In Canada and in the district of Maine the country-people place large pieces of the bark immediately below the shingles of the roof, to form a more impenetrable covering for their houses.

" Migwan sighed quietly and gave herself over to being agreeable to her canoe mates, but the occasion had lost its savor for her.

It was just a holiday canoe-meet, and hundreds of the small, frail craft were darting about upon the surface of the water like so many pretty dragon-flies.

One pleasant summer day, when the children had the pleasure of a canoe outing with Mary and Kennedy, they decided to visit the wigwam of their old friends, Kinnesasis and his wife.

To get there he dragged his war-canoes overland across the Auckland isthmus, straightened winding creeks for their passage, and, when the Waikatos felled large trees across one channel, patiently spent two months in cutting through the trunks.

To confirm their fears some Indians assured them that they had seen a canoe overset and driven by the current on the coast of Jamaica; which report had probably been spread by the mutineers to make those who were with the admiral despair of getting off.

" There was a mad rush for canoe partners, and a hasty gathering together of guitars and mandolins, which would certainly be in demand for the evening sing-out which would follow supper.