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Masha was all a-quiver, like birch-bark in the fire; her delicate fingers flew playfully over the guitar, her dark-skinned throat slowly heaved under the two rows of amber.
"Let's hit up the speed a bit," urged Dan Dalzell. "We won't be in too big a hurry about that," Dick counseled. "Let us get the knack of this thing by degrees." "Whee! When we do get to going fast I'll wager there is a lot of fine old speed in this birch-bark tub!" chuckled Tom Reade. Dick now headed the canoe up the river. For half a mile or more they glided along on a nearly straight course.
Thus it came to pass that, two days later, a couple of birch-bark canoes were launched on the waters of Red River, with Dan Davidson in the stern of one and Fergus McKay acting as his bowman.
Fisher reported, on his return, that he had followed the stream between three and four miles, where it turned to the southwest, without discovering any indications of a wooded country; but a sufficient explanation respecting the birch-bark was perhaps furnished by his finding, at the distance of a quarter of a mile from the sea, a piece of whalebone two feet ten inches in length and two inches in breadth, having a number of circular holes very neatly and regularly perforated along one of its edges, which had undoubtedly formed part of an Esquimaux sledge.
The platforms on each side were closely packed with spectators; and, betwixt these and the fires, the younger warriors stood in lines, each bearing lighted pine-knots or rolls of birch-bark.
Port Angeles Village and the Indian Ranch. A "Ship's Klootchman." Indian Muck-a-Muck. Disposition of an Old Indian Woman. A Windy Trip to Victoria. The Black Tamáhnous. McDonald's in the Wilderness. The Wild Cowlitz. Up the River during a Flood. Indian Boatmen. Birch-Bark and Cedar Canoes. EDIZ HOOK, October 21, 1866. We are making a visit at the end of Ediz Hook.
I am going to make a birch-bark bedspread out of it. I'll cover a sheet with these pieces, you see, and sew them on. Then I can have autographs on them, and mottoes, and when I cover myself up with it I shall really feel like a dryad." "And here is what I have brought," said Mr. Raybold, holding up an armful of bark.
There they stand, on the edge of the lofty pole-shelf, or upon the extreme end of that part of it which runs off frequently over the water like a wharf, an assemblage of huts and halls, bowers and arbors, a curious huddle made of poles and sweet-smelling branches and sheets of birch-bark.
Having observed the child's habits, Petawanaquat paddled his canoe to the same point and hid it and himself among the overhanging bushes of the creek. In the course of his gambols Tony approached the place. One stroke of the paddle sent the light birch-bark canoe like an arrow across the stream. The Indian sprang on shore.
The aborigines of Newfoundland the Beothiks are said to have known the birch-bark canoe, framework canoe, but to have employed "dug-outs" hollowed tree trunks. The canoes of the Mandans of the upper Missouri basin were like coracles, of circular form, made of a framework of bent willow branches over which was stretched a raw bison-hide with the hair inside.
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