Interesting Reading

Quoted from "Undaunted Courage," by Stephen E. Ambrose, who is recapping the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Lewis & Clark wintered on the Pacific coast among the Clatsop and Chinook tribes.

"The canoes beat anything Lewis or Clark had ever seen."
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"Some of the larger canoes were up to fifty feet long and could carry five tons or thirty people."
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"They chiseled out a canoe using only old files embedded in a block of wood as a handle... These people make them in a few weeks."