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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 101

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uffalo hides drawn over a stout, roughly made frame of wood. THE SMALL WATER CRAFT OF THE AMERI-CANS OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY However interesting it might prove to study thedevelopment of small water craft in the order inwhich they have come into use, the writer hasfound it impossible to do so… … THE SIMPLEST FORM OF DUGOUT.Used by the Hupa Indians of northern California for smooth, inlandwaters. handy for him to paddle a heavy canoe to theopposite side of a smooth body of water. So he made a tub-boat by stretching one of the buf-falo hides, plentiful in those days, over a stoutframe of…

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