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And some poles were placed at boat landings to greet visitors arriving by canoe.
It's the time to reconnect with nature, when kids catch bugs and snakes, grandfathers go fishing and couples take a canoe down a lazy river.
When we got into difficulty, we rafted our canoe and Keith's canoe together, bow-to-bow.
Just above this rapid, a green canoe is pulled onto the left bank, with a hodgepodge of gear piled alongside it on the rocky beach.
Nearby is Everglades National Park, which can be explored by canoe, hiking, biking or in an airboat.
The Network shared a story of a fourteen-year-old camper who went on an all-day canoe trip.
Our fleet consisted of a Picayune delivery truck, two cars, bicycles, a kayak and a canoe.
The house comes with a 19-foot runabout, a canoe, kayaks, sailboards, and snorkeling and fishing gear.
The canoe slides into the water in the blink of an eye and before you can say Jack Robinson it's twenty yards off shore.
Equipped with a single clue and their canoe, the Minnow, the boys spend a summer questing for treasure.
The hapu decided they would build their own waka, a canoe big enough to carry at least a dozen fishermen to sea.
They needed to build a lean-to shelter, dry their possessions, and repack their canoe for the rest of their journey.
On large lakes near major access roads and rail lines, rafts of floating logs often made canoe travel impossible.
As a boy, by the way, Pierre had set out from Florida in an unsuccessful canoe trip to Cuba!
Among the winners were some who are involved in lesser-profiled sports, including canoe polo, ice skating, trampolining, and even bare-foot waterskiing.
Festivals almost always feature waterborne activities, ranging from athletic events like blindfolded canoe races to rituals that include offerings to water spirits.
So I go out in a canoe and repeat verses over and over and try and learn poems.
Arising from within a culture, technology, whether it is a canoe, a revolver, or a clock, simultaneously shapes and reshapes the culture in which it exists.
When the Queen and Prince Philip visited Tuvalu in 1982, Her Majesty was carried ashore in a canoe by locals.
That canoe he paddles in Parks, that episode where Ron is a canoe, Nick Offerman built that canoe, for real!
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My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.
They have thus far been successful in opening several area ski trails, purchasing grooming equipment for the Noquemenon trail, and developed kayak and canoe landings.
A substantial Maya trading canoe was encountered off Honduras on Christopher Columbus's fourth voyage.
The city was interlaced with a series of canals, so that all sections of the city could be visited either on foot or via canoe.
Martinez had allowed a store of gunpowder to catch fire and was condemned to death, however his friends let him escape downriver in a canoe.
Cermeno salvaged a small, open launch, likened to a large canoe, and loaded it with the 70 surviving crew members to begin the long journey home.
The key invention to their exploration was the outrigger canoe, which provided a swift and stable platform for carrying goods and people.
He did little shopping himself, and unlike his wealthy friends who owned yachts, he was satisfied with his canoe.
Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back.
Various canoe and kayak clubs paddle on the river including those at Stone, Burton, and Nottingham.
That's not even taking the weather into consideration, which everyone should, if they don't own a wet suit and can paddle their own canoe.
Murphy will not be able to take part in the parade because of the road race, but he will be doing his canoe and Big Cheese opponents one better.
This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
It is possible to canoe on parts of the river between Stockport and Carrington.
Most canoe aficionados would argue that motorizing a canoe removes the pleasurable aspects of traveling in one.
After his back injury, Phillip motorized his canoe to reduce the amount of paddling he needed to do.
Guided canoeing and canoe hire is available through some small companies such as SD Adventures.
There are a wide range of canoe hire and supervised trips, as well as campsites at key points on the river.
The pelican, formerly a black bird, made a canoe during a flood in order to save drowning people.
Trips across the Isthmus of Panama or Nicaragua typically took about one week by native canoe and mule back.
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A Spaniard, Diego Mendez, and some natives paddled a canoe to get help from Hispaniola.
This point was at the crossroads of canoe routes travelled by First Nations before European contact.
For example, many popular canoe routes in northern Canada include areas of peatland.
They took a canoe for a short reconnaissance trip, thus becoming the first Europeans to navigate the Pacific Ocean off the coast of New World.
After a short stay in Timbuktu, Ibn Battuta journeyed down the Niger to Gao in a canoe carved from a single tree.
Subjected to intense missile fire, they barely fended off a massed canoe attack that sought to trap and board them.
He spies a native canoe, captures the two Indians on board, and brings them back to ship.
The intended use of the canoe dictates its hull shape and length and construction material.
Constructed between 8200 and 7600 BC, and found in the Netherlands, the Pesse canoe may be the oldest known canoe.
Sprint canoe was a demonstration sport at the 1924 Paris Olympics and became an Olympic discipline at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
The International Canoe Federation was formed in 1946 and is the umbrella organization of all national canoe organizations worldwide.
In Canada, the canoe has been a theme in history and folklore, and is a symbol of Canadian identity.
Over time, the Marshall Island people learned to navigate over long ocean distances by canoe using traditional stick charts.
In fact, if we all chip in for the canoe fare I'm sure David Beckham could swing him a bed with the Yanomami tribe for a week or three.
Teams of eight will follow five different courses to jog, bicycle, kayak, roller skate, and either canoe, raft, or racewalk.
Sportspal was a down-and-out Callander-based canoe manufacturer he bought in 1985 and later relocated to North Bay.
Baillie and Stott were first to go in the final and set the fastest time of the day, roared on by a capacity crowd of British canoe fans.
On the pier you can watch sailmaking, dugout canoe carving, and rope work, and listen to poetry and music.
They were fooling around and accidentally capsized the canoe.
The purpose of the canoe will also often determine the materials used.
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Modern canoe types are usually categorized by the intended use.
Their canoe will fly through the air, on condition that they not mention God's name or touch the cross of any church steeple as they fly by in the canoe.
Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner.
You take the ski racks off the car and replace them with canoe racks.
From 1935 to 1986 the Canadian silver dollar depicted a voyageur and an Indigenous person paddling a canoe with the Northern Lights in the background.
In places where the canoe played a key role in history, such as the northern United States, Canada, and New Zealand, the canoe remains an important theme in popular culture.
Know how to upright a canoe or kayak and tie your keys to you.
The native canoes immediately began to turn around to make their way back to shore, but not before the Portuguese boat reached the closest African canoe.
Vessels have been discovered where they have been preserved in sediments underwater or in waterlogged land sites, such as the discovery of a canoe near St Botolphs.
These areas can only be reached on foot, bicycle, canoe or on horseback.
I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.
Because he's a total douche canoe who only wants what he can't have.
Willet sent the canoe through the open water between the tall reeds.
There are also canoe trails in place and a 'Strangford Lough Activity Map' has been launched as a part of a series of maps produced by the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.
The weir is used by a number of local canoe and kayak clubs.
I left my canoe below the fish lay, casting upward, so if I could hook a fish from shore I could lead him down without danger of ruffing the pool.
This point is about two or three days travel by canoe to Moosonee.
Drumlins are asymmetrical, canoe shaped hills made mainly of till.
They limited the supplies reaching the city from the nine surrounding towns via canoe, by sending out two of their launches on nightly capture missions.
The Shark Valley Visitor Center and Anhinga Trail are great spots for wading birds, but paddle a canoe or kayak far from the trail to immerse yourself in the landscape.
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The Aztec canoe fleets worked well for attacking the Spanish because they allowed the Aztecs to surround the Spanish on both sides of the causeway.

Examples from Classical Literature

Vane, who was stripped to shirt and trousers, had arrived from comox across the Strait at dawn that morning in the sea canoe.
The canoe itself was similarly presented to the chief as a gift of aroha from Rup.
So I led him to the canoe and, ascertaining that I had him well hooked, I lifted him in.
A canoe formed from the trunk of a large tree, generally cedar or balsa wood.
They alone employed a plank-built canoe instead of the Balsas or canoe-shaped bundles of rushes of the greater part of California.
The twelve chattering Kroomen who were to go as far as the Bambara country with the expedition were seated two in each canoe.
The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.
Such waves will often buffer off a canoe or batteau, and they must have helped some with the raft.
They kept it up until nightfall, and then beaching the canoe lay down once more in the tent, which strained in the wind.
After dusk we were informed that the men whom we had hired at Bemba as canoe men had run away.
When a birchbark seam begins to part there's no power on earth that will hold it when the canoe is heavily loaded.
They had, in effect, a ready-made craft not unlike a canoe with blunted bows.
How bouncer had come to find me, or to whom the canoe belonged, no one could tell.
There they might be able to catch some brook trout, while Etienne was repairing the canoe.
From the dugout have come the piragua, Rose's tobacco boat, and the Chesapeake Bay canoe and bugeye as we see them today.
In essence the bugeye was a large canoe, fully decked, with a fixed rig following that of the brogan.
He then sent one canoe forward, with four Frenchmen, to present the calumet of peace.
As soon as the canoe came within arrow-shot, the savages, regardless of the calumet, let fly a shower of arrows upon them.
If it's all a fake of his, how came you to have heard of Braybridge paddling the canoe back for her?
We all went ashore in this canoe, then, and were soon alongside of a wharf.
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The canoe birch has a clean bole, chalky white, with none of these ugly black patches.
Hiawatha was not the first Indian to use the canoe birch for practical purposes.
The canoe birch is a tree which was treasured by the early Indians because it yielded bark for making canoes.
She was past-mistress of the canoeist's difficult art, and her canoe flew on as though drawn away into the dark on unseen cords.
Below the rapids are many small whirlpools, and the capita of the canoe takes advantage of these to help him on his course.
The natives of Chiapas shoot the fish from the end of the canoe with bow and arrow.
The Sioux excels the Chippeway in horsemanship, but does not equal them in canoe building.
This canoe was bedded in the mud and gravel at the extremity of the cit, on the Notre-Dame side.
We stopped to dine on an interesting rocky island, securing our canoe to the cliffy shore.
The boat is thus a transitional form between the dug-out canoe and the clinker-built boat.
And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.
There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.
The river was confined between high and cragged rocks, one of which impended above the spot where the canoe rested.
With us we had an old ship's carpenter, who helped to make a canoe from a currajong tree.
Thinking that it might be possible to secure a canoe from here to Pueblo Viejo, we dickered with a boatman at the wharf.
In the afternoon we scaffolded some meat, and nearly completed the frame of a skin canoe, which we concluded to build.
We crossed the Sacramento at the embarcadero, swimming our horses, and passing ourselves over in a small canoe.
Beyond the shore floated the long canoe, with its curving ends and its emblazonment of the five-pointed stars.
At the close of the day it was always necessary to run the canoe ashore, to land and encamp.
The Achinese in the meantime fitted their canoe with outriggers on each side, and made a mast and a substantial sail with mats.
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It was a dugout or canoe, made by hollowing with axe and adz a section of a cucumber tree.
If he enters a house, steps into a canoe, affixes his name to a field, it is his.
The paper or canoe birch is the most valuable American kind.
The canoe going downstream appeared to dissolve in candent vapour.
The Acadian stooped at once and with a quick splash launched his canoe.
The uses of the bark of the canoe birch are familiar to all.
The canoe birch or paper birch is the noblest member of the family.
The Paper Birch is also called the white birch or canoe birch.
On the day after their anchoring, a large canoe put off from the mainland.
For example, the canoe birch at its northern limit is a runt.
Presently there emerged from the mountain a canoe laden with lost souls from the outer world.
He bailed the canoe and reloaded the musket, drifting the while.
It was evidently a very slim canoe with a balance beam and sails.
The wind begins to rise, creating white-crested waves the canoe cuts knifelike.
So we went back and got the canoe, and paddled up abreast the cavern, and lugged all the traps up there.
La Salle then sent another canoe, with four Indians, bearing the calumet.
The waves were buffeting the canoe about like a log in a whirlpool.
We carried off one canoe load, and even returned for a second.
Enoch was waiting for us, and helped me lift Cross from the canoe.
Here the canoe was driven upon the beach, and the whole party landed.
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The canoe and bateaux were their only means of transportation.
There a Lascar came alongside in a canoe, sold him the handle of a sword in silver that bore the print of characters engraved on the hilt.
Several years have elapsed since cassowary made his last canoe.
You cannot escape from this clearing, for I have cast adrift your canoe.
Each brings with him his idols, with which he retires into a canoe to hold a consultation.
He was picked up in Bering Sea, drifting about in a stolen canoe.
An Indian, of an active elastic form, leaped into a light canoe of cotton-wood, and vigorously plying the paddle, soon shot across the river.
A man who bestrides a horse must be essentially different from a man who cowers in a canoe.
Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
Looky here, didn't de line pull loose en de raf' go a-hummin' down de river, en leave you en de canoe behine in de fog?
Then, downriver, she saw a canoe gliding over the glistening water.
As the canoe containing the men was paddled along, there floated down beside it what seemed to be a big, rough log.
Between these, covered over with cocoanut branches, lay a canoe.
I expect Ill have to make a trip across to comox for them in a sea canoe.
Then came a representation of the light and graceful movements of a canoe, set in forcible contrast to the tottering steps of one enfeebled and tired.
Mugambi did not wish her presence, but there she was, and rather than lose time by returning her to the shore the black permitted her to remain on board the canoe.
Robert Stuart, however, set out in a canoe with five men and an interpreter, ferreted out the wreckers in their retreat, and succeeded in wrestling from them their booty.
The Auckland War Memorial museum displays more than 2,000 Maori artifacts and artworks, from greenstone adzes to an 80-foot war canoe and a meeting house.
Twenty times they thought the whirling eddies were sweeping them to destruction, when the masterhand of their pilot would bring the bows of the canoe to stem the rapid.
Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, for the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

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