Re: Quiz -- Fortune Bay Expeditionary Team Campfire

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Re: Quiz

Author:
Andy Kursch

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Date Posted: 21:24:09 02/08/04 Sun
In reply to: Pathfinder 's message, "Re: Quiz" on 00:19:31 02/06/04 Fri

I was thinking it might be more for after the raid. any survivors stalking the assailants would not be able to locate a camp by where the canoes were stored.

>That's right. According to legend. War Parties would
>take their canoes and fill them with large rocks and
>swamp them as a way to hide them so the enemy
>encampment could not spot them.
>
>Pathfinder
>
>>>>>One question remains unanswered.
>>>>>
>>>>>1. Why did Native Michigan Tribes fill their
>canoes
>>>>>with rocks and swamp them. (Hint, they did this in
>>>>>time of war)
>>>>>
>>
>>Guess #1. To hide their canoes?

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