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We took a pilot and entered the river by the Balize or "South-east Pass," which was the deepest channel at that time, and navigable only for vessels drawing not more than fifteen feet of water, and, by dint of hard labor, steam towboats being then unknown, worked our way to the city of New Orleans. I have already stated that the owner of the Brig Betsey was Mr.
They were just well under way when, either by the merest chance or by malicious design, several of the rival Company's towboats moored to the neighboring ships cast off. The anchorage was crowded and a boiling six-mile tide made it difficult at best to avoid collision.
Hilary spoke of Adolphe's devotion to Flora hoped he would win. Told with great amusement how really well his cousin had done with her government claim sold it to his Uncle Brodnax! And Flora how picturesque everything she did! had put ? yes, they both knew the secret had put the proceeds into one of those beautiful towboats that were being fitted up as privateers! Hilary laughed with delight.
"I am, Gib, but I'll be prouder'n ever if you can follow them towboats in without havin' to claw off Baker's beach or the Point Bonita rocks." "Calamity howler," Gibney growled. Half an hour later he caught the echo of the Bodega's whistle as the sound was hurled back from the high cliffs at Land's End, off to starboard.
So unformed was the prevalent conception of the ultimate function of the railroad, and so pronounced was the fear of monopoly that, on certain lines, the roadbed was laid as a state enterprise and the users furnished their own cars, just as the individual owners of towboats did on the canals.
As for the young man himself, the thing that touched him most deeply was the quick, complete and manly acknowledgment of this lieutenant commander. “Mr. Farnum,” inquired the gunboat’s commander, “have you any towboats about here that can be used in helping me to get the ’Hudson’ off this sand ledge?”
About as many more, the lieutenant said, were at the river's mouth waiting to put to sea, but the towboats were all up here being turned into gunboats or awaiting letters of marque and reprisal in order to nab those very ships the moment they should reach good salt water. Constance and Miranda tingled to tell him of their brave Flora's investment, but dared not, it was such a secret!
Hearing a confused shouting to shoreward, Boyd ran to the rail in time to see one of the Company tugs at the head of a string of towboats bearing down ahead of the current directly upon his own slow-moving lighter. Already it was so close at hand as to make disaster seem inevitable.
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