At Selkirk, the old team of dogs, fresh and in condition, were harnessed, and the same day saw Daylight plodding on, alternating places at the gee-pole, as a matter of course, with the Le Barge Indian who had volunteered on the way out.
The Le Barge Indian was a young man, unlearned yet in his own limitations, and filled with pride.
He saw two great open barges being filled up with men, and, on inquiry, learned that these were grubless ones being rounded up and sent down the Yukon by the Committee of Safety.
Running in cake-ice all the way, and several times escaping jams in the Yukon Flats, the barges made their hundreds of miles of progress farther into the north and froze up cheek by jowl with the grub-fleet.
He rides to where the barges lie in readiness, and the great Barons step forth from their ranks to meet him.
Slowly the heavy, bright-decked barges leave the shore of Runningmede.
The pack flew off the
barge in every direction, and, after gambols, dug like terriers at Abu Hussein's many earths.
Here, were the Leith, Aberdeen, and Glasgow steamers, loading and unloading goods, and looking immensely high out of the water as we passed alongside; here, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into
barges; here, at her moorings was to-morrow's steamer for Rotterdam, of which we took good notice; and here to-morrow's for Hamburg, under whose bowsprit we crossed.
because the chalands (
barges) are fresh-water boats, and take the sea badly," replied, the fisherman.
We flashed past
barges, steamers, merchant-vessels, in and out, behind this one and round the other.
In one of these
barges sat the Queen of that country with her only daughter, a maiden more beautiful than the Day Star, and attended by the ladies of the Court.
Towards noon whales were raised; but so soon as the ship sailed down to them, they turned and fled with swift precipitancy; a disordered flight, as of Cleopatra's
barges from Actium.