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and then boarding up. In this way, and by 
spreading them a little, they make them sufficient- 
ly large to bear from six to ten tons burden. 
Their only modes of transportation are by canoes 
on the rivers, and by portage overland. Neither 
have they any traveling facilities, but by canoes 
on the water and afoot on the land. 
The reason I say they have no other trades but 
the two referred to above, is simply because all 
seem to understand how to do whatever else is 
done — even to house-building— without serving 
an apprenticeship. 
I once asked a conoe-builder if the boy assisting 
him at the time was his son. he replied, 
only take him to learn him canoe-sense.’’ He 
meant, of course, the trade of canoe-building. 
