. Our country: West. ^ that I. An Indian Canoe. have seen many beautiful canOes, some capable of carrying adozen persons, made from a standing tree, without beingtouched by a tool of steel or any other metal. The inside and outside having been finished, the nextthing to be done is the stretching, without which the crudedugout would be wholly unseaworthy. To do this, the canoeis set level on a firm skid foundation and filled with fire is then kindled and stones, heated red-hot, are throwninto the canoe till the wat^ boils. By taking out and reheating the stones the water is keptboiling
. Our country: West. ^ that I. An Indian Canoe. have seen many beautiful canOes, some capable of carrying adozen persons, made from a standing tree, without beingtouched by a tool of steel or any other metal. The inside and outside having been finished, the nextthing to be done is the stretching, without which the crudedugout would be wholly unseaworthy. To do this, the canoeis set level on a firm skid foundation and filled with fire is then kindled and stones, heated red-hot, are throwninto the canoe till the wat^ boils. By taking out and reheating the stones the water is keptboiling till the walls of the canoe, which are not more than an INDIAN 15 inch thick, become as pliable as sole leather, and capable ofbeing stretched a foot or more beyond their normal width. Nicely fitting sticks are now put in transversely along thegunwale, increasing in length from the ends to the means of these stretchers, a cedar log two feet and a halfin diameter will make a canoe of three or four fee
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