Yet the Lake cannot really be so long and broad as it seems, for the country could not contain it.

The length is increased, almost trebled, by the islands and shoals, which will not permit of navigation in a straight line.

For the most part, too, they follow the southern shore of the mainland, which is protected by a fringe of islets and banks from the storms which sweep over the open waters.
Thus rowing along round the gulfs and promontories, their voyage is thrice prolonged, but rendered nearly safe from the waves, which rise with incredible celerity before the gales.

The slow ships of commerce, indeed, are often days in traversing the distance between one port and another, for they wait for the wind to blow abaft, and being heavy, deeply laden, built broad and flat-bottomed for shallows, and bluff at the bows, they drift like logs of timber.

In canoes the hunters, indeed, sometimes pass swiftly from one place to another, venturing farther out to sea than the ships.