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()l)s: It is \\()ii(l('it'ull to sec liow they will Nciiturc in those Caiioos, ajid how 

 (bciiiK oft overset as I have iii\sell'e heen with theiiij they will swim a mile, yea two 

 or m«)re safe to Land: I having been necessitated to passe Waters diverse times: 

 with them, it hath i)Ieased (lod to make theiii many times the instruments of my 

 l)reservation. and when sometimes in fi;reat danger I have questioned safety, they have 

 said to me: i-'eaic not, if we he overset I will carry you safe to Land.' 



The Xkw VojtK Times for July 10, 19()(), writes: 



Cherry ilill was the centre of an excited crowd all day yesterday when the news 

 got about that sonic workmen had du<i up an old Indian canoe in an excavation at 

 the corner of ( 'hcrr\- and ( )li\('r Streets. 



Men, women, and boys and giils flocked to the sjjot, and so blocked tlie streets 

 that the police of the Oak Street Station had to be sent there to keep order. 



Tiie lower part of Oliver Stre(>t is made ground, for in the old days the waters of 

 the l*]ast River used to wash above the Ciierry Street line. 



Workmen from the New York Edison Comi)nay had made an excavation about 

 eight feet deep when they came to what seemed to be a big log near the bottom. They 

 dug around this and disclosed to view what the police and all others who viewed it 

 said was half of an Indian canoe. Then the workmen, who don't take much interest in 

 anything pertaining to the American Indian, ])romi)tly got an axe and chopped away 

 until they got out the timber in sight, leaving the other half still })uried in the mud. 



In doing this they split the canoe into three pieces, and, followed by an admiring 

 crowd, it was carried to the corner of Frankfort and Pearl Streets, and dejiosited on a 

 pile of dirt under the Franklin Scjuare elevated station, where the night watchman 

 could keep his eye on it until to-day, when the workmen expect to get the other half 

 and piece the canoe together. 



It is supposed that the canoe was lying in the mud a hundred years ago or more, 

 when the river front was filled in to make more land. 



The part saved is about 7 feet long and 3 feet wide, and 14 inches deep, and tapers 

 to an abrupt and rounded end, which is sharp, somewhat like the Indian canoes of the 

 Western Indian. The whole was hewn from a solid log of white i)ine al)out fourteen 

 feet long. 



PART OF DUGOUT CANOE 



Found at Cherry St., New \'ork. The only known fragment of a canoe used by 

 the Indians of Manhattan. 



'Collections of the Hliode Island Historical Society, vol. 1. pp. 98-99, Providence, 1827. 



