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Then, with scarcely a pause, Moung San came out with a piece of news that made his hearers jump. "When I am at Prome two weeks ago, the 'fire-boat' of U Saw pass me, and go up the river." "Fire-boat!" cried Jim Dent. "U Saw possesses a steamer. How big, Moung San?" Moung San went into details.
"There's no fire-boat up here there ought to be!" "Girls!" cried Betty, "there's just a chance to save the boat house!" "How?" demanded Amy. "If we could get on the windward side of that burning barge, throw a line aboard and tow it out into the middle of the lake, it could burn there without doing any damage!" "By Jove! She's hit the nail on the head!" declared Mr. Stone, with emphasis.
As soon as he saw this boat Captain May told his passengers that he was going to send them on board of it, as he feared the fire might now break out at any minute, and he was going to ask its captain to run in to Sandy Hook, and send despatches to the revenue-cutter and to the New York fire-boat Havemeyer, begging them to come to his assistance. Mrs.
By this time little eddies of smoke were curling up from around the closely battened hatches, and Captain May saw that the ship could not live to reach the upper bay, and feared she would be a mass of flames before the fire-boat could come to her relief.
A fire-boat was brought down and moored under the drawbridge which connected the Tourelles with our boulevard; wherefore, when at last we drove our English ahead of us and they tried to cross that drawbridge and join their friends in the Tourelles, the burning timbers gave way under them and emptied them in a mass into the river in their heavy armor and a pitiful sight it was to see brave men die such a death as that.
I explained that it was a fire-boat testing her hose-lines, and then as we moved into the channel I gained courage, and found myself pointing out the Statue of Liberty, Governors Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge. The fact that it was a stranger who was talking did not seem to disturb her.
He is on white man's fire-boat, what you call steamboat, only he is on boat maybe twenty times bigger than steamboat on Yukon. Also, it is made of iron, this boat, and yet does it not sink. This I do not understand, but Yamikan has said, 'I have journeyed far on the iron boat; behold! I am still alive. It is a white man's soldier-boat with many soldier men upon it.
At this point the fire-boat arrived; a couple of well-directed streams of water from her powerful engines soon extinguished these flames, and the three blackened masts, pointing vaguely upward, were all that remained to show where, so short a time before, the great ship had floated. The pilot-boat had already transferred Mrs.
"It must be so," he said, but Buck was again in conversation with the Burman. "Do you know where the 'fire-boat' had been?" he asked. "There was a word that U Saw had been a long cruise in the islands," replied Moung San. "Been a long cruise in the islands, had he?" said Dent, in a meaning tone. There was silence while the three white men made swift calculations mentally.
He compared the "fire-boat" with the size of his hnau, he compared it with a river-steamer which now went puffing past, he described it with the greatest minuteness, for he had lain beside it at Bhamo for three days on the trip before last. "Say," murmured Buck, looking round on his deeply-interested companions, "this beats the band.
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