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bow and a stern paddle as the case may be. the bow paddle is longer. and less ornamental than the stern. This then when the parts are all put together is the Ojibway canoe. and any one who has ridden in it for three hundred miles, across the quiet [?] of the lake. or [?landing?] along from billow to billow driven by the blast of a tempest where the sea around was white with breakers. and the clouds over head heavy with a driving rain. while overhead comes the forked tongue of lightning darted from the sky. accompanied with the most sublime peal of | bow and a stern paddle as the case may be. the bow paddle is longer. and less ornamental than the stern. This then when the parts are all put together is the Ojibway canoe. and any one who has ridden in it for three hundred miles, across the quiet [?] of the lake. or [?landing?] along from billow to billow driven by the blast of a tempest where the sea around was white with breakers. and the clouds over head heavy with a driving rain. while overhead comes the forked tongue of lightning darted from the sky. accompanied with the most sublime peal of thunder with thin miles of such a master of energy [?] to [?] to a place of safety and this frail bark loaded with two human beings and a lot of camp outfit. bounding along now on the crest of a wave then in the trough of the sea. again trembling from stem to stern from the shock of a wave breaking over her. yet righting herself standing [?]. Or as in the rapid river when with the strike of the paddle the vessels clear water; such an one cannot refrain from singing the praise of the frail yet sturdy boat made of thin strips of wood and covered with a layer of cork scarcely a sixteenth of an inch thick. | ||
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bow and a stern paddle as the case may be. the bow paddle is longer. and less ornamental than the stern. This then when the parts are all put together is the Ojibway canoe. and any one who has ridden in it for three hundred miles, across the quiet [?] of the lake. or [?landing?] along from billow to billow driven by the blast of a tempest where the sea around was white with breakers. and the clouds over head heavy with a driving rain. while overhead comes the forked tongue of lightning darted from the sky. accompanied with the most sublime peal of thunder with thin miles of such a master of energy [?] to [?] to a place of safety and this frail bark loaded with two human beings and a lot of camp outfit. bounding along now on the crest of a wave then in the trough of the sea. again trembling from stem to stern from the shock of a wave breaking over her. yet righting herself standing [?]. Or as in the rapid river when with the strike of the paddle the vessels clear water; such an one cannot refrain from singing the praise of the frail yet sturdy boat made of thin strips of wood and covered with a layer of cork scarcely a sixteenth of an inch thick.