. Our country: West. d insideand out with fish-oil, and then painted in bright colors. It may not be generally known that the fine curves whichdistinguished the bows and sterns of the original speedyBaltimore clipper ships were suggested by the models of theseIndian canoes. Such is the fact, however, and in later yearsthe builders of ocean steamships have copied the same ex-quisite lines. One of the characteristics of these canoes is that theirmotion causes very little disturbance of the water, whetherlight or heavily laden, and whether slowly or swiftly their shape is consummat
. Our country: West. d insideand out with fish-oil, and then painted in bright colors. It may not be generally known that the fine curves whichdistinguished the bows and sterns of the original speedyBaltimore clipper ships were suggested by the models of theseIndian canoes. Such is the fact, however, and in later yearsthe builders of ocean steamships have copied the same ex-quisite lines. One of the characteristics of these canoes is that theirmotion causes very little disturbance of the water, whetherlight or heavily laden, and whether slowly or swiftly their shape is consummate art in shipbuilding. Howdid rude, untutored Indians discover it? Of course not all atonce. For unknown ages these people were constructing canoes with slow increments of improvement from one generation to another until at last they worked up to a model which proved fast and yet best suited to their needs. As none of them could improve the model they adhere to it, and all their canoes are of that pattern. Lr. a At a Salmon Pool. We had stopped at a cannery near the head of TongasNarrows, to take on board two thousand boxes of sahnon,and so had an opportunity to land and see the place wherethe fish are taken. A walk of half a mile through the ever-green forest brought us to the little river near the foot of acascade fifteen or twenty feet in height. The stream foams down over rugged ledges of pale grayslate, overhung by enormous firs, while fallen tree-trunkscross and half-blockade it. At the foot of the rocks is a seriesof three or four picturesque pools of eddying water, aboutthirty feet in breadth and six or eight feet in depth. The pools were full of restless, circling salmon, all pressingup to the foot of the falls. The foremost ones, bent crescentshape, were constantly leaping upward, some gaining thewater above at the first spring, some falling back into thethrong beneath to repeat their effort. From the bay below thousands were pressing up into thepools, impelle
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