Crossword-Solution: CANOEMEN 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The coast for the greater part of the distance affords no shelter; there are, however, a number of little harbours, called _esperas_, which the canoemen calculate upon, carefully arranging each night-voyage so as to reach one of them before the wind begins the next morning.

Canoemen on the Upper Amazons live in constant dread of the “terras cahidas,” or landslips, which occasionally take place along the steep earthy banks, especially when the waters are rising.

Both were intrepid canoemen and huntsmen, and both perfectly at home anywhere in these fearful wastes of forest and water.

Round the doors of these inns in summer-time might always be found groups of loquacious Breton and Norman sailors in red caps and sashes, voyageurs and canoemen from the far West in half Indian costume, drinking Gascon wine and Norman cider, or the still more potent liquors filled with the fires of the Antilles.

One of the streams, the Rancocas, with its many windings to Mount Holly and then far inland to Brown's Mills, seems to be the favorite with canoemen and is probably without an equal in its way for those who love the Indian's gift that brings us so close to nature.