Voyage of the paper canoe : a geographical journey of 2500 miles from Quebec to the Gulf of mexico, during the years 1874-5 by Bishop Nathaniel Holmes 1837-1902

Author:Bishop, Nathaniel Holmes, 1837-1902
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Canoes and canoeing, United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Published: 1882-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

continued their investigations, when, farther on, almost in their very pathway, there rose a noble tree, pointing its top heavenward, as though to remind them in whose care their lost ones had been. Approaching this giant, who had stood a silent sentinel through winter storms and summer skies, they found he bore upon his body a message for them. Stripped of its bark, five feet upward from the ground there appeared upon the bare surface in bold lettering the word so full of hope — Croat'an j and now also, as in the last case, without the graven cross. Cheered by these signs, and believing that the lost colonists had carried out their early intentions, and were now located among the friendly tribe of Croatans, wheresoever their country might be, the boat's company decided to go at once to the ships, and return the next day in search of the lost colony.

One of the ships, in moving its position from the unprotected anchorage-ground, parted its cable and left an anchor on the bottom — the second that had been lost. The wind drove the ships towards the beach, when a third anchor was lowered; but it held the little fleet so close in to the breakers, that the sailors were forced to slip their cable and work into a channel-way, where, in deeper water, they held their ground.

In debating the propriety of holding on and

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