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The second type is exemplified by the birch-bark canoe, which has three parts in its frame gunwale, cross-bars, and ribs and a fourth part, the skin, to complete it. The third type is distinguished from the second by its keel, as clearly as vertebrate animals are distinguished from invertebrates by their backbone.
His imagination had heard it on the summer breeze as he paddled across a sun-drenched lake in his birch-bark canoe. The Blackfoot raised his head till he could look through the window. Jessie McRae sat on a stool facing him. Two men were in the room. One strode heavily up and down while the other watched him warily.
If the dishes were a motley array, a few pieces of silver and polished pewter with common earthenware and curious cups of carved wood as well as birch-bark platters, the viands were certainly appetizing. "One will not starve in this new country," he said. "But it is the winter that tries one, M. Destournier says." "There must be plenty of game. And France sends many things.
He went on a little farther and presently concealed himself in the bushes close to the trail. He had not long to wait, for soon a red scout came on ahead of the party. He was a young Huron brave, his face painted black and yellow. His head was encircled by a snake skin. A fox's tail rose above his brow and dropped back on his crown. A birch-bark horn hung over his shoulder.
These are made of poles, tied together at the upper end, and are thatched with large pieces of birch-bark. A hole is always left at the top to let out the smoke, and the whole space occupied by this primitive dwelling is not larger than a large circular dining- table. Large fierce dogs, and uncouth, terrified-looking, lank-haired children, very scantily clothed, abounded by these abodes.
Along Lone Moose a dozen Cree and half-breed families disappeared into the back country during the hazy softness of Indian summer and came gliding down in the spring with their winter's catch, a birch-bark flotilla laden indiscriminately with mongrel dogs and chattering women and children and baled furs and impassive-faced men, bound for Port Pachugan to the annual barter.
"These were precisely similar to those already described in my limit of the long-tails, except that the canoe, instead of being `a dug-out, was a light craft of birch-bark, such as are in use among the Chippowas and other Indians of the northern countries. The canoe was obtained from a settler, and tilled with torch-wood and other necessary articles, but these were clandestinely put on board.
This any one of my young readers may see, if they examine the Indian baskets or toys, made of birch-bark.
"He's got a team of Esquimaux dogs calls 'em Mahlemeuts, and he's got a birch-bark canoe, and a skin kyak from the coast." Then with an inspiration: "His people are the sort of Royal Family down there," added the Boy, thinking to appeal to the Britisher's monarchical instincts. Mac had meditatively laid his hand on a side of bacon, the Boy's eyes following.
On the morning in question for the sun was not yet much above the horizon a little birch-bark canoe might have been seen to glide noiselessly from a bed of rushes, and proceed quietly, yet swiftly, along the outer margin of the bed. The bow-paddle was wielded by a stout boy with fair curly hair. Another boy, of gentle mien and sickly aspect, sat in the stern and steered.
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