Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . te complicated in their structure. 20 THE FEEJEE CANOE, The double canoe. A sood boat for bovs. Here is a picture of aFeejee canoe. It is madedouble, with a platform ex-tending across from one partto the other. This is to pre-vent its being easily the platform is a littlehut, where the savage navi-gators are sheltered from thesun and rain. One of themen is now standing uponthe roof of his hut, pullingupo
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . te complicated in their structure. 20 THE FEEJEE CANOE, The double canoe. A sood boat for bovs. Here is a picture of aFeejee canoe. It is madedouble, with a platform ex-tending across from one partto the other. This is to pre-vent its being easily the platform is a littlehut, where the savage navi-gators are sheltered from thesun and rain. One of themen is now standing uponthe roof of his hut, pullingupon one of the lines of therigging. Near the forward edge ofthe platform are two squareopenings, made through theplanking, which serve ashatches, leading down intothe holds of the boat, wherethe cargo is mast is very long and slender, and the sail is of a very pe-culiar form. Such a boat as this would be a very good one for boys to useupon a pond, as it could not be easily upset. For boys, however,it would be necessary to have a railing around the platform, tokeep them from falling off into the water. In the distance we see one of the fertile islands of the FEEJEE CANOE. THE GREAT IMAGE, 21 Nineveh and Babvlon. The mounds. It is covered with groves of trees. We see among the trees somelarge buildings, such as are built under the direction of the mis-sionaries. IV THE GREAT IMAGE. The immense mass lying on the bank in this engraving is a sculptured imagedug up from amongthe ruins of Nine-veh. Nineveh andBabylon were for-merly magnificentcities, but they havegone more entirelyto ruin than almostany other of thegreat cities of an-cient times. Forhundreds of yearsnothing has beenvisible at the placeswhere they stoodbut great mounds covered with grass and other vegetation, likenatural hills. A few years ago, some people began to dig intothese mounds to see what thev contained. A sreat manv curious
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