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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 thunderwith thin miles of such a master of energy