Excerpt from The Geographical Journal, Vol. 10: Including the Proceedings of the Royal Geography; July to December, 1897 The white man 'has invented nothing to equal the Indian canoe for 1the purposes for which it is used. It is light and durable; it runs well, and is easily repaired; materials like those out of which it is built may be procured to repair damages at almost any place where an accident may happen, and the voyageurs understand how to make these repairs expeditiously. This is the canoe of history and poetry, the canoe of Longfellow's Hiawatha, the same that was used by Champlain and the other adventurous missionaries who, in Canada's early days, explored the St. Lawrence, the Great lakes, and the Mississippi river. It is still used by most surveyors and explorers for all their trans portation, and also by the Hudson's Bay Company to take in their goods and bring out their furs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.