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...igable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels. The area of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas ... ...ere snails in those days. The river’s earliest commerce was in great barges— keelboats, broadhorns. They floated and sailed from the upper rivers to N... ...intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream busi nes... ...lboats down stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream busi ness, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as dec... ...r and in speed that they were able to absorb the entire com merce; and then keelboating died a permanent death. The keelboatman became a deck hand, o... ...I remember the rude ways and the tremendous talk of their big crews, the ex keelboatmen and their admiringly patterning successors; for we used to sw... ...ird of a mile and get on these rafts and have a ride. By way of illustrating keelboat talk and manners, and that now departed and hardly remembered ra... ...patted juba, and the rest turned themselves loose on a regular old fashioned keel boat break down. They couldn’t keep that up very long with out get... ...er, but his adventure has furnished the glimpse of the departed raftsman and keelboatman which I desire to offer in this place. I now come to a phase ...

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...It stuck to the premises of Gruff and Tackleton, like a barnacle to a ship’s keel, or a snail to a door, or a little The Cricket on the Hearth Char...

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... who un- derstood my own speech, and could meet with me on equal terms, as a man, and no longer as a curiosity. And so a letter at Pontoise decided us...

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...s crept again on board their ship, as it now lay, and as it still remains, keel to the waves, a monument of the sea’s potency. In still weather, under... ...a, and skirted south-eastward along the front of the shore reef, which her keel was at times al- most touching. Hitherto she had brought disaster to h...

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...t; and striking the stem of the foremost vessel, crushed her beneath their keel. From the huge whirlpool Charles Dickens 281 which the sinking wreck ...

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...he ‘Swanhilda’ is the mother of the fleet, Pres. I had to buy her, but the keel of her sister ship will be laid by the time she discharges at Calcutta...

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... when young has the triangles of each kind new, and may be com pared to the keel of a vessel which is just off the stocks; they are locked firmly tog...

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...ade answer playing on him And saying, ‘Son, I have seen the good ship sail Keel upward, and mast downward, in the heavens, And solid turrets topsy-tur...

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...y, and the weight of the cargo and the machinery fell on the groaning iron keels and bilge-stringers. “Ease off! Ease off; there!” roared the garboard...

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...des, cleaving the foam-cover’d flood! Long is the track plough’d up by the keel where dolphins are sporting, Following fast in its rear, while it seem... ...then hasten, thou ship, with every favouring zephyr! Onward, thou powerful keel, cleaving the waves as they foam! Bring me unto the foreign harbour, s...

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...ale The stronger pump’d, the weaker thrumm’d a sail. Under the vessel’s keel the sail was past, And for the moment it had some effect; But ...

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... or worthy, in Norway or Denmark, who had not made some voyages in a “long keel,” as a ship was called, and fought bravely, and brought home gold cups...

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... men, who were perhaps, as a class, our most efficient soldiers (Frederick Keeling, for example), were not duped for a moment by the hypocritical melo... ...that. MRS HUSHABYE. Yes, dear; but that was for the ship with the magnetic keel that sucked up submarines. Living at the rate we do, you cannot afford...

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... the “rapt ship” which ran “on her side so low That she drank water, and her keel ploughed air,” not considering that there was no wind, and that she ...

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...between themselves and the sinking ship. A few minutes later, they saw it keel over and the waves engulf it with a passion. Theo’s heart was ready t... ...unning around the corner. He dropped a cloth bag at Jadooji’s feet before keeling over to catch his breath. Jadooji pulled out an enormous camera wi...

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...h as there are no wharves, we are usually kept anchored by a small kedge, or keelek, just outside, of the surf. We all provided ourselves with thick S... ...s been moved in the hold, from stem to stern, and from the waterways to the keelson.’’ I went up to the house to supper. We had frijoles, (the ... ...ls. Some also have an effigy of Judas, which the crew amuse themselves with keel hauling and hanging by the neck from the yard arms. - 66 - Two Year... ...ng in petticoats! As for your wife, you’ll never see her again; she was ’up keeleg and off’ before you were outside of Cape Cod. You hove your money ... ...owing the hides, as I have said, the ballast is levelled off, just above the keelson, and then loose dunnage placed upon it, on which the hides rest. ... ...e water, and she seemed actually to jump from sea to sea. From the time her keel was laid, she had never been so driven; and had it been life or deat... ...leaped over the seas, and almost out of the water, and trembled to her very keel, the spars and masts snapping and creaking,—‘‘There she goes!—Ther...