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Updated: May 12, 2025
Fortunately a blacksmith was found outside the village, who promised to repair the broken rowlock early upon the following morning.
The gondoliers eagerly answered with the one word of German known to their craft, "Freunde," and struggled to urge the boat forward; the oar of the gondolier in front slipped from the high rowlock, and fell out of his hand into the water. The gondola lurched, and then suddenly ran aground on the shallow.
The Algerine Corsairs were masters of the sea, and they made their mastery felt by all who dared to cross their path; and not merchantmen only, but galleys-royal of his Catholic Majesty learnt to dread the creak of the Turkish rowlock. One day in 1529 Kheyr-ed-dīn despatched his trusty lieutenant "Drub-Devil" with fourteen galleots to make a descent upon Majorca and the neighbouring islands.
The fair and pleasant damsel made a clever descent into the boat, and having seated herself, she began to twirl the scull in the rowlock, and said: 'Do you feel disposed to join me in looking after the other scull and papa's hat, Mr. Pollingray? I suggested 'Will you not get your feet wet? I couldn't manage to empty all the water in the boat.
I rose from the bottom of the cutter and stretched out my hand to seize it, when instantly the lee gunwale dipped under water and so did I, with the exception of my right leg, which was jammed crossways in the rowlock. In this position I was carried along for a distance of forty yards, and when the squall had passed over, the boat's crew pulled me in.
A rudder being entirely out of place in the kind of navigation found in the canyons, a heavy rowlock was placed at the stern to hold a strong, eighteen-foot steering oar. The boats were entirely decked over on a level with the gunwales, excepting two open spaces left for the rowers.
My uncle hurriedly took Pete's place, seized the oar that was swinging from the rowlock, and began to pull so as to keep the boat from drifting, while I steered. "Hadn't you better let her go down a bit, sir?" said the carpenter. "He may be drifting, and will come up lower." "But the lad could swim," said my uncle, as I began to feel a horrible chill which made my hands grow clammy. "Swim?
"Just see me row away," cried the governor, refusing to stop, but as he was about to say "away," his oar slipped out of the rowlock, and he finished the sentence, his feet going up into the air and his head going down into the bottom of the boat! "Caught a crab, governor?" shouted the president.
She now took the other oar from the rowlock, and was about to rise, when the bishop shouted to her. "What are you going to do?" he cried. "I am going to the stern," she said, "to see if I cannot reach that oar with this one. Perhaps I can pull it in." "For Heaven's sake, don't do that!" he cried. "Don't stand up, or the boat will tip, and you will fall overboard."
He did not show the least alarm, and as he leaned over to cut the rope the boat sheered into the stream, the stern-post broke and he was adrift. With perfect composure he seized the large scull-oar, placed it in the stern rowlock and pulled with all his strength, which was considerable, to turn the bow down stream.
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