Canoemen

One of my canoemen fell off the trail between the two little valleys of Aipio and Luno. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So Blatka told me to hire canoemen to take you out to sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When modern canoemen go down a river in a wild-water race, covering distance against a clock, the amplitude of what they do is not so immediately apparent as it is when, at a time of leisure, they stop to enjoy a rapid. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)

Accordingly, I kept my canoemen on the schooner by an abundant supply of "bitters," and at midnight landed half a dozen, who proceeded to the mulatto's cabin, where he was seized _sans ceremonie_. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)

Woodsmen and canoemen, competent to pork and beans, can master also the alternative. ❋ Various (N/A)

Profits of 400 per cent were made on successful fur adventures, under a license to trade to the extent of 10,000 crowns on the merchandize and 600 crowns to each of the canoemen. ❋ Charles Roger (N/A)

The poorest working class of Manila -- fishermen, canoemen, day labourers, etc. -- live principally in the ward of Tondo, where dwellings with thatched roofs were allowed to be constructed. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

When the young canoemen had picked themselves up, righted the canoe, and found the rifle, it was too late to look for the missing alligator, and they plodded slowly home to camp. ❋ A. W. Dimock (N/A)

Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, heard his canoemen sing it repeatedly, when he travelled down the SaintLawrence, in 1803, from Kingston to Montreal. ❋ Unknown (1929)

Thompson's canoemen carried with them a rag of a sail. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)

I paid my new porters two yards of cotton cloth apiece, and ten yards to each of the canoemen. ❋ Unknown (1923)

I turned to see Game grappling with the nearest of the canoemen, his Winchester gripped at the muzzle by the savage. ❋ Unknown (1923)

He consented but with the reservation that after we had reached the upper waters of the Sicuanga and established a camp, he would leave me there, and return to Iquitos, dropping at Barranca the Indians whom we should take with us as canoemen. ❋ Unknown (1923)

For next day, without any fuss or ceremony, we bought a sound dugout for one carisa of poison, and pushed off with eight canoemen, led by the medicine man Pitacunca en route for Borja and our friends. ❋ Unknown (1923)

We were debating as to whether we should openly propose to "Lázaro" that he should accompany us with a party of canoemen, when we saw him putting off in his canoe to come over to the island. ❋ Unknown (1923)

The canoemen were short and slightly built, no match for the Indians of Papallacta. ❋ Unknown (1923)

We went ahead steadily, expert canoemen by this time, enjoying the luxury of sleeping peacefully under the new calico mosquito-bars, and finding a number of our old temporary camps ready for us to use again. ❋ Unknown (1923)

The canoemen would be divided between the several craft and escape would be out of the question. ❋ Unknown (1923)

Being as yet unacquainted with the tricks of the Indians, we thought that our canoemen must have gone off early to look for game. ❋ Unknown (1923)