Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 103
when thoroughly water-soaked, must be hauled upon the shore to dry for a week or so, when theyare again ready for service. I conclude that thereed boats of Nevada must be treated in a similarway. We might give a long list of boats and canoesmade by the white man. The reader is familiarwith the… … A TULE GRASS BALSA.Used by the Ute Indians of Pyramid Lake, Nevada. One of the latest models in small-boat construc-tion is the vapor launch, using gasolene in anengine of one or two horse-power that carries thecraft along at a speed of more than six miles anhour. A gasolene engine runs only one…
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