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They do the housework, it is true, but all the heavy labour beyond their strength is done by the men. Examples of this are seen in the frightful toil of hunting, canoeing, and portaging, besides a multitude of kindred small tasks, such as making snowshoes, bows, arrows, and canoes.
Both wielded paddles, for Ensign Christie had already seen enough of service in America to have gained a fair degree of skill in canoeing. For hours these two paddled, poled, and tracked their way against the swift current of the Mohawk, until utter darkness barred their further progress.
Stepping on the side or the gunwale of a boat shows the ignorance of a tenderfoot. There are rowboats that are neither round-bottomed nor flat but are shaped like the boat in photograph, page 206. These are safer than the round-bottomed, but are more easily capsized than the flat-bottomed boats. =Canoes and Canoeing=
"Pretty brisk out on the water this morning?" he said. "We got your message we were out canoeing last night; you use the International code, don't you?" "Have you got him?" Roy asked anxiously. "Oh, yes, he's here; pulled in somewhere around midnight, I guess. He stayed all night with one of our troop; he's up there now getting his breakfast. Great kid, isn't he?" he laughed.
To shut him out from the world where he had enjoyed himself so much for years and years? Never to go forth free among his fellows! Never to play the gallant with all the pretty girls he knew! Never to have any sports, or games, or tobacco, or good meals, or canoeing in summer, or tobogganing in winter, or moose-hunting, or any sort of philandering!
For travel by land there were nothing but narrow, rough and tortuous foot-paths, with makeshift bridges across the smaller streams. The rivers were highly advantageous both as avenues and as sources of food, for the negroes were expert at canoeing and fishing. Intertribal wars were occasional, but a crude comity lessened their frequency.
"Come along, Betty. It's a crime to waste a minute of this wonderful night." "May we, Mrs. Irving?" queried Betty, smiling up at their chaperon, who was the same who had shared their adventures, during that other eventful summer on Pine Island. "You know you love canoeing as much as the rest of us." "Of course we'll all go," Mrs. Irving assented readily.
We react to nature as does no other race. We are the descendants of pioneers all of us. And if we have not inherited a memory of pioneering experiences, at least we possess inherited tendencies and desires. The impulse that drove Boone westward may nowadays do no more than send some young Boone canoeing on Temagami, or push him up Marcy or Shasta to inexplicable happiness on the top.
Every year we hear of terrible drowning accidents which might have been avoided if some one in the party had kept his head and had been able to tell the others what to do. I have placed canoeing and swimming in the same chapter because the first word in canoeing is never go until you can swim.
Another military road, also built by Simcoe, followed the old Indian trail through thirty-three miles of forest from York to Lake Simcoe. This shorter route to Lake Superior enabled the North-West Fur Company established by Frobisher and McTavish, of Montreal, in 1776 to avoid canoeing up the Ottawa and its tortuous tributaries. The batteaux were brought up the St.
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