 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 464 pagine
...soon as we descried the apparent peril it was passed. In less than ten minutes, as it seemed to me, we had left the roar of the rapids behind us, and...art. We were in one of the finest that float on St. Marie River, and when I looked at its delicate ribs, mere shavings of white cedar, yet firm enough... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 440 pagine
...soon as we descried the apparent peril it was passed. In less than ten minutes, as it seemed to me, we had left the roar of the rapids behind us, and...art. We were in one of the finest that float on St. Marie River, and when I looked at its delicate ribs, mere shavings of white cedar, yet firm enough... | |
 | Edwin Orin Wood - 1918 - 868 pagine
...we had left the roar of the rapids behind us, and were gliding over the smooth water at their feet. "In the afternoon we engaged a half-breed and his...broad laths of the same wood with which these are enclosed, and the broad sheets of birchbark, impervious to water, which sheathed the outside, all firmly... | |
 | Edwin Orin Wood - 1918 - 886 pagine
...we had left the roar of the rapids behind us, and were gliding over the smooth water at their feet. "In the afternoon we engaged a half-breed and his...broad laths of the same wood with which these are enclosed, and the broad sheets of birchbark, impervious to water, which sheathed the outside, all firmly... | |
 | Otto Fowle - 1925 - 528 pagine
...gondolas of bark." William Cullen Bryant, in Letters of a Traveler, written in 1846, said: The birch bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful...perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. — When I looked at its delicate ribs, mere shavings of white cedar, yet firm enough for the purpose... | |
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In the afternoon we engaged a half-breed and his brother to take us over to the Canadian shore. His wife, a slender young woman with a lively physiognomy, not easily to be distinguished from a French woman of her class, accompanied us in the canoe with... 