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kayaking and canoeing  

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  • Both canoes and kayaks have long histories as modes of transportation, but also as pleasure and sport craft. The canoe, a simple, open, keelless boat able to accommodate one or more people and propelled by a single-blade paddle, is a design of the indigenous cultures of the Americas. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Kayaking and Canoeing]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-QSGVD28S-V

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