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28 февраля 2023 г., 23:32
Champlain continued to communicate with the Indians by sign language for several hours. He took a professional interest in their boats, observing that Indians south of Cape Ann used pirogues, or dugouts, made from solid tree trunks by “burning and scraping with stones, which they use in place of knives.” Champlain appears to have tried his hand at steering a dugout, and found it “very liable to upset unless one is very skilled.” One imagines him struggling to stay upright as the Indians looked on with amusement.
