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Updated: September 16, 2025
Here Jill began the Canadian boat-song, with great vigor, as if bound to play her part of Indian victim with spirit, and not disgrace herself by any more crying. All knew the air, and joined in, especially Jack, who came out strong on the "Row, brothers, row," but ended in a squeak on a high note, so drolly, that the rest broke down.
"By the way," said Fred, when his father concluded a fine old boat-song with a magnificent flourish worthy of an operatic artiste, "can any one tell me any thing about the strange old woman that lives down in the hut near the bridge?" "Ha! ha!" laughed George, "I can tell you that she's an old witch, and a very fierce one too."
Where dere's no stormy weather, O, yes, &c. Dere's no tribulation, O, yes, &c. This next was a boat-song, and timed well with the tug of the oar. "I want to go to Canaan, I want to go to Canaan, I want to go to Canaan, To meet 'em at de comin' day. The following begins with a startling affirmation, yet the last line quite outdoes the first. This, too, was a capital boat-song.
"That is too sad," she said with a little laugh, and then burst into a Kaffir boat-song, of which the Settlement natives, joyous in the prospect of once more seeing their home, took up the chorus gleefully. Presently she wearied of the boat-chant. "I am tiring you," she said; "I dare say that you do not care for singing." "On the contrary, Miss Rodd, I am very fond of it.
There was a sound far below them of the striking of oars in the water, and another sound of one or two men monotonously chanting a rude sort of chorus. "They are taking the gig on to the yacht," he said. "But what are they singing?" "Oh, that is Fhir a bhata" said he; "it is the common boat-song. It means, Good-by to you, boatman, a hundred times, wherever you may be going."
I retired to rest with the "Matoushka Volga," a boat-song popular the length and breadth of Russia, ringing in my ears. There are no private cabins on board the Kaspia. The captain's cabin, a box-like retreat about eight feet square, leads out of our sleeping-place, which is also used as a drawing and dining-room.
So saying, with a low bow, half in fun and half in earnest, to Miss Huntingdon and his brother, with a request to the latter to learn the Canadian boat-song, "Row, Brothers, Row," at his earliest convenience, he left the summer-house, taking his two friends with him.
Now they glided along without using an oar, borne onward by the current; then they would take a spell at the paddles, while the beautiful Canadian boat-song could be heard as it came from the tiny craft, and the appropriate chorus "Row, brothers, row!" echoed from the adjacent shores. No part of their journey was more pleasant than while descending the romantic Elk.
Perhaps his story had taken him back to happy days and to Venice. He caught up his clarionet and made plaintive music, playing a Venetian boat-song with something of his lost skill, the skill of the young patrician lover. It was a sort of Super flumina Babylonis. Tears filled my eyes.
When the Illinois brigade returned, his wife, who had stood weeping in the cheering crowd while his companions made islands ring with the boat-song at departure, refused to see him. He went to the house of her aunt Laboise, where she lived. Mademoiselle Laboise, her half-breed cousin, met him.
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