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Updated: June 15, 2025
They called to the captain to cast them loose, and soon Ned was poling the skiff toward the busy porpoises while Dick stood in the bow of the skiff with his harpoon handy. Quick as a flash the porpoises separated and scattered in every direction and the boys followed several in vain.
Just then the Venus took the mud; she grounded just as a huge fat sow knuckles quietly ere stretching herself. "All aback forrard!" sings out Bill Martin, with a loud silly laugh. We were a brig of a hundred and eighty tons, and there was nothing to be done with poling; nor was kedging going to help us at this the first quarter of ebb.
Where did you get that boat? I want a boat." "Dat's jist what I thought, Mah'sr Harry," said Lewston, still poling away as hard as he could. "I know de compuny'd want to git ober de creek, an' I jist went up to Hiram Anderson's and borrowed his ole boat. Ise been a-bailing her out all de mornin'." "You're a trump, Lewston," said Harry.
One would think there is a General in Dantzig now." "There is Rapp," replied the Italian, poling his boat through the floating ice. "He will be glad to see me." The Italian turned and looked over his shoulder. Then he gave a curt, derisive laugh. "Barlasch of the Old Guard!" explained the new-comer, with a careless air. "Never heard of him."
With a relief that cannot be imagined the bulky craft glided into the bank of deeper gloom, which so wrapped it about that it was invisible from any point more than a dozen yards distant. It is inconceivable how a narrower escape could have come about, for the two men had hardly ceased poling, allowing the boat to move forward with the momentum already gained, when their enemies were discovered.
General Yozarro could not be expected fully to understand the changed conditions, with the American yacht steaming forward a short way behind his own boat. Captain Ortega called out a brief explanation, and the men continued poling until the smaller craft lay alongside the larger one.
The plaintive note of a single bugle, at intervals reverberating wildly among the hills over which the party wound its way, more than anything beside, indicated its character; and even this accompaniment is so familiar as an appendage with the southron so common, particularly to the negroes, who acquire a singular and sweet mastery over it, while driving their wagons through the woods, or poling their boats down the streams, that one might fairly doubt, with all these symbols, whether the advancing array were in fact more military than civil in its character.
Then the boat shot out from behind a clump of alders and made down the river toward him. The current was swift and strong and there was considerable poling to be done before it touched the shore and Pierre stepped out. "I've been looking round. This is as good a place to camp to-night as we'll find. Leave the things here, and might as well get ready now.
The scenes of starting and arriving, packing and unpacking, chaffing and quarreling, were all interesting. In the lagoons of Vera Cruz, our boatmen applied the term jornada to a straight stretch across a lagoon made at one poling; here among the carreteros, the word jornada means the run made from resting-place to resting-place.
If you are in a damp climate, or on shipboard, keep them in a tin box, tightly closed. =Boats Safe and Unsafe. Canoeing. Rowing. Poling. Raft-Making. Swimming. Fishing= =Safe and Unsafe Boats= One seldom goes on the long trail, or into camp, without encountering water, and boats of some kind must be used, generally rowboats or canoes.
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