thefe boats, which are extremely well 

 calculated for the ufe of thefe Indians, as 

 they are frequently obliged to carry them 

 over land a long way together, through 

 thick woods, to avoid doubling capes 

 and headlands, in feas where no open 

 boat could live. They generally con- 

 fift of five pieces, or planks $ one for the 

 bottom, and two for each fide ; and as 

 thefe people have no iron tools, the la- 

 bour muft be great in hacking a fingle 

 plank out of a large tree with (hells and 

 flints, though with the help of fire. 

 Along the edges of the plank, they 

 make fmall holes, at about an inch from 

 one to the other, and few them together 

 with the fupple-jack, or woodbine ; but 

 as thefe holes are not filled up by the 

 fubftance of the woodbine, their boats 

 would be immediately full of water if 

 they had not a method of preventing it. 

 They do this very effectually by the bark 

 gf a tree, which they firft fteep in water 



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