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Updated: June 15, 2025
The noise of the struggle upon the mount was with them longer, but at length it, too, died away. "Which will conquer?" said Patricia at last, from where she crouched at the feet of Landless, who stood erect, poling. "The Ricahecrians were the stronger," he answered. "But they may be so handled that they will not come at us again. That must be our hope."
On the little yellow and brown desert, their boatman followed the course of a thin, silver stream, which represented the Bidassoa at low tide. From time to time, some fisherman crossed their path, passed near them in silence, without singing as the custom is in rowing, too busy poling, standing in his bark and working his pole with beautiful plastic gestures.
A swing of the pole, a sudden deft turn, and hurrying to the other end of the log, he begins poling hard across the stream. "He's making for the other bank!" "He'll never do it and there's no one there to help!" "Oh look! He'll be carried over the edge!" Hard fighting now.
Next morning rowing took the place of poling and tracking for a time, and, presently, the great range of lofty hills called, to our right, the Moose Watchi, and to our left, the Tuskanatchi the Moose and Raspberry Mountains loomed in the distance.
"Ay, mester, and I suppose you are going to spoil it all with your big drain," said the wheelwright, and he ceased poling for a few moments, as the punt entered a natural canal through a reed-bed. "Spoil it, my man! No. Only change its aspect. It will be as beautiful in its way when corn is growing upon it, and far more useful." "Ay, bud that's what our people don't think. Look, Mester Dick!"
A peculiar and indescribable inflection would lead one, hearing and not seeing these boatmen, to fancy himself listening to a flight of brants in stormy weather. Yung Po, poling by himself, gives utterance to a prolonged cry of "Atta-atta-atta aaoo ii," every time he hustles along the side-plank.
On all the American rivers, east and west, a lusty crew, collected from the waning Indian trade and the disbanded pioneer armies, found work to its taste in poling the long keel boats, "corralling" the bulky barges that is, towing them by pulling on a line attached to the shore or steering the "broadhorns" or flatboats that transported the first heavy inland river cargoes.
Most of them were got over slowly by combined poling and tracking, the line often breaking with the strain, and the boats being kept in the channel only by the most strenuous efforts of the experienced men on board. "Tughkenay asswayegh tamook!" Turn yourself! Turn your pole Hell!"
Were the Basques united as a race, or were their sympathies French or Spanish? After considering how I should put it, I said, "Mon ami, est-ce que vous êtes plus Basque que Français, ou plus Français que Basque?" He taught me a lesson in simple psychology, for he stopped poling and stared at me for a long minute. Then he scratched his head and a light came into his eyes.
Divided in mind between his obligation to the sleeping passengers and his duty to get the boat on her way, that officer spilled a good deal of subdued sulphurous language upon the situation. "All together now. Get your back into it. Why are you running around like a chicken without a head, Reeves?" he snapped. Evidently the deck hands were working to get the Hannah off by poling.
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