[263] Champlain in Howe, p. 105; Gookin, p. 152; Willoughby, p. 154; Wood, p. 102.

[264] Champlain in Howe, p. 105.

[265] Ibid.

[266] Willoughby, p. 154.

[267] Champlain in Howe, p. 105; Wood, p. 102.

[268] Champlain in Howe, p. 105.

[269] Once a bowl was thus far completed, it is reported that they would “soak it in their minerall springs to dye it”; Bushnell, p. 675.

[270] Pring, p. 58.

[271] Byers, p. 16.

[272] The weight of even a large version of this canoe (9-passenger) did not exceed 60 pounds; Pring, p. 58.