The canoes of the present race of red men do not essentially differ from those of the tribes described by Lewis and Clark, and who are now extinct.

The Indians then living above tide-water built canoes of smaller size than those employed by the nations farther down the river.

The canoes of the Tillamooks and other tribes living on the seacoast were upwards of fifty feet long, and would carry eight or ten thousand pounds' weight, or twenty-five or thirty persons.

These were constructed from the trunk of a single tree, usually white cedar.

The bow and stern rose much higher than the gunwale, and were adorned by grotesque figures excellently well carved and fitted to pedestals cut in the solid wood of the canoe.