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feet long with a beam of seven or eight feet, carried a crew of fifty, 
although it was only on Queen Charlotte islands that the cedar grew 
large enough to make a dugout of such magnitude. There was con- 
siderable variation, also, in shape. The canoes of the northern tribes 
had rounded bottoms, and curved gently upward and forward in both 
bow and stern, whereas the canoes of the Nootka and other .southern 
tribes had flat bottoms, and high, almost vertical sterns. All alike, 
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1, Alaskiin Uniiak; 
2, Labrador Kaynl:; 3, Dogrib; 4, iJalceite; 5, Algord-Lin; 
6, Moiitagnais. 
