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It is a remote and uncertain combination, I grant you. The Patriarch, a tall, slender youth of seventy years, whose home is beside the Golden Gate of California, was wandering among the ruins of Sicily when I last heard from him. The Pastor and his wife, the Lady of Walla Walla, who live on the shores of Puget Sound, were riding camels across the peninsula of Sinai and steamboating up the Nile.
My companions in toil swore bitterly about everything in general and steamboating in particular. "How much are you getting?" asked a young Dane of me, as we trudged up the plank together. "Nothing at all," I said. He swore an oath of wonder, and stopped to look me over carefully for the loose screw in my make-up. " nothing but the fun of it," I added. He sniffed and looked bewildered.
One doesn't hit a rock or a solid log craft with a steamboat when he can get excused. You will hardly believe it, but many steamboat clerks always carried a large assortment of religious tracts with them in those old departed steamboating days. Indeed they did.
The Captain turned. "Lige, why don't you give up steamboating and come along to Europe? You're not forty yet, and you have a heap of money laid by." The Captain shook his head with the vigor that characterized him. "This ain't no time for me to leave," he said. "Colonel; I tell you there's a storm comin'." The Colonel pulled his goatee uneasily. Here, at last, was a man in whom there was no guile.
Steamboating on the upper river is only a memory. There are now no wood-yards as formerly. We found ourselves with no certainty of procuring grub and oil; our engine became more and more untrustworthy; our paddles had been lost. What winds we had generally blew against us, and the character of the banks was changing.
Freight and passenger way-traffic remains to the steamers. This is in the hands along the two thousand miles of river between St. Paul and New Orleans -of two or three close corporations well fortified with capital; and by able and thoroughly business-like management and system, these make a sufficiency of money out of what is left of the once prodigious steamboating industry. I suppose that St.
It was one the most terrible of the many similar disasters recorded in the history of steamboating on the Mississippi; and to this day the burning of the Lytle is a favorite theme of conversation among old river men. When Glen Elting learned the name of the ill-fated craft, he started and turned pale. "The very packet for which we were waiting!" he cried, with bated breath.
By and by I see the beast, a muskrat, steamboating his way up the rapids like a furry Maid-of-the-Mist, or perhaps I should say a submarine, that navigates the surface with but little bulk exposed. Presently he proves himself a submarine by diving in a shallow. I see his paws stirring up mud and presently again he comes to the surface with a fresh-water clam.
I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steamboating was new to me.
Farther down the river, and near the city of Portland, there are some very delightful falls, not exceptionally large or high, but very delightful in character, and full of contradictions and peculiarities. Steamboating on the Columbia River, in its navigable sections, is exceedingly pleasant and instructive. The river is the largest in America which empties into the Pacific Ocean.
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