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Updated: May 24, 2025
A notion to go down stream struck the salmon like a flash of lightning; without a moment's warning he took the line over his shoulder and darted into the rapids. "Il va descendre! Vite, vite! Le canot!
After leaving this post we had a strong breeze of adverse wind for the remainder of the day, and encamped in consequence earlier than usual. On the following morning we were very early roused from our slumbers by the call of "Canot
Crack! went a pistol-shot close to his head, and he dived again; but not before he had seen the yacht's boat not thirty yards off. How near the canot lay he had not been able to inform himself, but the narrow shave he had just had gave him a hint that it could not be far distant.
"A boat?" said Captain Branscome, staring again, and slowly rubbing the back of his head. He took a step forward, to descend to the beach and examine her, but Dr. Beauregard laid a hand on his arm. "Not so fast, my friend! Qui dit canot dit canotier a glance will assure you that she did not beach herself in that position, above high-water mark, still less furl her own sail and stow it.
The yachtsmen's blood was up, and they worked like heroes, but they were four to twelve. The canot shot ahead and got the inside track. The race, as a race, could now have but one end. The canot was bound to be first at the spot where the runaway forçat and one of his English friends stood side by side out of reach of the hungry sharks, but not beyond the grasp of justice.
Simpson was famous in those days for his swift journeys with his celebrated Iroquois canoemen. They were made by Canot du Maitre as it was called, the largest bark canoe made by the Indians, carrying about six tons and a crew of sixteen paddlers, and which ascended as far as Fort William. Thence further progress was made in the much smaller "North Canoes" to all points west of Lake Superior.
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