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Updated: May 17, 2025
When we left Kazan, I noticed that a huge open barge was being towed upstream alongside us, that it was being filled with these bales, to lighten the steamer for the sand-bars and shallows of the upper river, and that a monotonous but very musical cadence was being repeated at intervals, in muffled tones, somewhere on board.
Ankle-deep, screened by the foliage, he untied a raft of freshly cut logs, made a careful survey of the shore about him, and shoved out into the river, pointing slightly upstream. The dog established herself on the bow, her eyes on the shore they were approaching. As he worked the sweep at the stern the man talked to the dog.
Some of its sturdy exposed roots reached down from the bank into the water, where they caught and held the drift from upstream, reeds and twigs and matted grass, a dirty, sickly mass that swished lazily on the flank of the slow-moving current. The water here in the shade was deep and clear and limpid, contrasting sharply with the steel-white surface out beyond.
Meanwhile, Colvile was pushing upstream from the west. On that side the Boers had an advanced position in a big donga, which runs into the right bank, about two miles below the laager, and upon which a few companies of the Highland Brigade, having waded the river, had already made a gallant but unsuccessful attack.
Between the two lay a number of boats. Trade appeared to be bad, for there was no life about the place and everything was dirty and decaying. "There she is," Hilliard cried, with a ring of pride in his voice. "Isn't she a beauty?" The Swallow was tied up alongside the wharf, her bow upstream, and lay tugging at her mooring ropes in the swift run of the ebb tide.
"Because I cannot triangulate the bottom within half a mile upstream from where the tunnel would have to be located. That roar and the wildness of the water wherever we can see it is proof that it is flowing down a heavy grade. At the point where I triangulated it might be above the level of Dry Mesa, and way below the mesa here at the tunnel site."
A mule bell tinkled in the quiet. Upstream on the path between canal and river two mules appeared with a man slouching heavily behind them. The towline led to a grimy scow which loomed out of the misty stillness like a heavier drift of the dawn itself. "Hello!" Philip hailed the mule driver. "What's wantin'?" asked the man and halted. Philip indicated Themar with his foot.
By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.
He left the horse with her and walked upstream in the direction of Brooksburg. As he had warned her that he might be gone a long time, he knew she would not be alarmed for him and she had already proved that timidity about herself was not in her nature. But he was alarmed for her this girl alone in that lonely darkness with light enough to make her visible to any prowler.
It was necessary first to alter the position of the float slightly so that the opening left by the plank pointed across and slightly upstream.
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