19/28 Since which we have visited the same spot the year the missionaries came among us. Glory to God! I have heard of many who have perished in this way far up in the woods."-- _Life of George Copway, written by himself_, p. 44. on first deciding that it was a canoe._" The Indians say, that before their fathers had tools of iron and steel in common use, a war canoe was the labour of three generations. It was hollowed out by means of fire, cautiously applied, or by stone hatchets; but so slowly did the work proceed, that years were passed in its excavation. |