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I hadn't got far when I hear a man say: "We better camp here if we can find a good place; the horses is about beat out. Let's look around." I didn't wait, but shoved out and paddled away easy. I tied up in the old place, and reckoned I would sleep in the canoe. I didn't sleep much. I couldn't, somehow, for thinking. And every time I waked up I thought somebody had me by the neck.
Even when moulting their feathers, or when young, they can escape fluttering over the surface of the water faster than a canoe can be paddled. The most usual method of hunting them is by snares. These are set in the following manner:
This induced the king to say before them, laughing, "Bana, you see, is not to be done; he is accustomed to sit before kings, and sit he will." Then by way of a change, he ordered all the drums to embark and play upon the waters; whilst he and his attendants paddled and steered by turns, first up the creek, and then down nearly to the broad waters of the lake.
“That broadside settled it; seven or eight of their big canoes were smashed up; several of the others turned and paddled to the shore; and a moment later, the men who were attacking us leapt into the boats alongside and followed their example.
The pinnace was accordingly steered into the bay, and anchored a short distance from the shore. Adair and Desmond landed in the canoe, accompanied by two men and as many breakers as she could carry. While the two men paddled back for more, he and his nephew walked up to the village.
Having dined, they had no need of provisions; so, taking plenty of powder and shot, with their three weapons, they shoved off, Mr Large sitting in the after-end, while the two midshipmen paddled well forward, in order in some degree to counteract his weight, which, as it was, brought the canoe considerably down by the stern, and lifted the bows almost out of the water.
They now arrived at a convenient place for stopping awhile, to give their canoe men rest from their labour, and at day break they launched out again into the river, and paddled down the stream.
They paddled on to the right, to the left, in every direction, but the dark water lay calm and sluggish on all sides. "We are on a lake," said Guy. "There is no doubt of it; a vast underground lake." "There must be an outlet on the other side, though," replied Melton. "All we need do is to paddle across and find it." "But which is the proper side?" said Canaris. "Are we headed straight now?"
With the aid of glasses it was seen that every part of the shore was laid out in plantations, while the natives were observed running along the shore waving small white flags, which were, of course, looked on as an emblem of peace. They were answered by hoisting a Saint George's ensign. Several canoes paddled alongside, and the people in them, after presenting the cava root, came boldly on board.
"I will, if you like," said Billie; "if you'll only carry me up to the garden gate and set me down, I can easily walk up the path." This proposal had just been agreed to when the whole flotilla of canoes paddled up alongside of the bank close under Prairie Cottage. It was evening at the time.
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