text:  It was a long Indian canoe made out of the hollowed trunk of a cotton tree; a many-tined antler was stuck in the prow and dried legs and haunches of venison lay in the fore part of the boat; towards the stern sat a young girl partially enveloped in a striped blanket but naked from the waist upwards impelling the boat in the direction of the deer by long graceful sweeps of her oar; in front of her was a squaw of maturer age performing a like labour