Pierre Fran%C3%A7ois Xavier de Charlevoix

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    If you’re so helpless you can’t find the water you’ve no business in it.
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    There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader’s boat.
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