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We resolved not to embarrass a family, in a time of so much sorrow, if any other expedient could he found; and as the Island of Ulva was over- against us, it was determined that we should pass the strait and have recourse to the Laird, who, like the other gentlemen of the Islands, was known to Col. We expected to find a ferry-boat, but when at last we came to the water, the boat was gone.
"Go along, then," cried Harry, and at the word the high bred nags went off; and though my friend was too good and too old a hand to worry his cattle at the beginning of a long day's journey many minutes had not passed before we found ourselves on board the ferry-boat, steaming it merrily towards the Jersey shore. "A quarter past six to the minute," said Harry, as we landed at Hoboken.
The heart of no fox or deer, with hungry hounds on his trail in full chase, could have beaten more anxiously or noisily than did mine from the time I left Baltimore till I reached Philadelphia. The passage of the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace was at that time made by ferry-boat, on board of which I met a young colored man by the name of Nichols, who came very near betraying me.
You can at least try to retrieve your fortunes by that means." The ferry-boat entered the slip at Hoboken and both men left the boat. "Now, Taney, which is it to be, paperhanging or ," and James Harrison pointed to the button. "I'll come with you," said Taney indifferently. They went further along the docks towards the Governor's Island ferry-boat.
"My pocketbook hasn't gone to the bottom." "It certainly has not," replied Lawry. "Then where is it? that's the next question." "Are you sure it was in your pocket when you got into the ferry-boat?" "Just as sure as I am that I sit here." "You were very careless about your coat on board of the sloop." "I know I was."
The blows and shouts of the workers rose all over the neighbourhood; the bank shook and moved about. About this time a large ferry-boat began to near the shore. The mass of people standing in it began to wave their hands from a distance. They were Cossacks in torn, ragged gaberdines.
I have seen precisely the same thing happen on a salmon river in Canada quite as large as the Jordan. The river is more open at this place, and there is a curious six-cornered ferry-boat, pulled to and fro with ropes by a half-dozen bare-legged Arabs.
By six o'clock the ferry-boat began to carry the main body across, taking over half a company at a time; but it was not until half-past three in the morning that the horses, waggons, the guns of the brigade, and a howitzer battery were on the northern bank, and the whole brigade established on a ridge a mile beyond the river.
As it was, however, his meat served us a good turn in our trip up to Stockton. At Stockton we disembarked our wagon, provisions, and instruments. There I bought two fine mules at three hundred dollars each, and we hitched up and started for the Coaumnes River. About twelve miles off was the Mokelumne, a wide, bold stream, with a canoe as a ferry-boat.
The admiral, ever prompt and ready to assist us, had two fine gunboats at Eastport, under Captain Phelps, the very day after my arrival at Iuka; and Captain Phelps had a coal-barge decked over, with which to cross our horses and wagons before the arrival of the ferry-boat.
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