At Rock Portage, where a ridge extends across the river and the water rushes down in rapids and cascades between small islands, each boat and its cargo had to be carried clear over one of the islands.
Below the first really bad rapid, the boat was beached, everyone was ordered ashore, and the cargo unloaded.
The Swiss caught the voyageurs' spirit of good-natured rivalry and entered heartily into the contest to see which crew would get boat and cargo over in the shortest time.
Bent on ridding themselves of Poutrincourt, they seized, in satisfaction of debts due them, all the cargo of his returning vessel, and involved him in a network of litigation.
The former was to trade with the Indians and bring back the cargo of furs which, it was hoped, would meet the expense of the voyage.
The ship and her cargo were saved, but she must be emptied, repaired, and reladen.
He had been to the coast of Guinea, where he bought and kidnapped a cargo of slaves.
He was seized by the crew and detained for several hours, while the cargo was landed, and a few pipes of wine were entered on oath at the Custom House as if they had been the whole.
He had a house and lot in Falmouth, which was confiscated, and a half interest in a cargo burned at Falmouth.
This was as much a submission to the authority of the act as if the whole cargo had been seized.
This was during the summer of 1765 when the first cargo of stamps was daily expected.
There's enough in sight in the way of loose cargo to square me with the concern.
Seems queer to turn down a cargo that's there waiting--and the old boat can carry it cheaper than anybody else, the way I've got expenses fined down.
It was what he had been hoping to find, after the assurance from the master: the partial cargo of lumber in the hold had settled to the deck when the schooner tipped over.
With a cargo she just humps right up like a monkey bound for war.
The Polly appeared to be showing sagacity of her own in that crisis; she was jettisoning cargo for her own salvation.
Couldn't get but two-thirds cargo below because the lumber was sawed so long.
We rigged that taakul you see aloft, and jettisoned all the cargo we could get at.
The new member of the crew followed the mate up the ladder--only a few steps, for the huge schooner, with most of her cargo aboard, showed less than ten feet of freeboard amidships.
The fat man had secured most of the cargo that the water had not ruined.
He had his head down; he hated to look forward at the telltale cargo of the schooner.
Investigating with groping hands, he assured himself that there were fully three feet of space between the cargo and the bottom of the vessel.
He had the good fortune to run the blockade eighteen times, conveying war material to Charleston and returning with a cargo of cotton.
It is in railway communication with all parts of the country, and wharves admit of steamers of large size loading and discharging cargowithout the aid of lighters.
A few minutes later the prow of the boat grounded upon a gravelly beach, and while Skipper Zeb unloaded the cargo the boys carried it to the tilt, laying it upon spruce boughs broken by Toby to protect it from the snow.
Already Skipper Zeb had a crackling fire in the stove and the cargo carried in and stowed snugly under the berths.
When Skipper Zeb returned at one o'clock with Mrs. Twig and Violet, and the cargo from the wrecked boat, Toby and Charley had a pot of grouse stewing upon the stove and ready for the dumplings which Mrs. Twig quickly prepared.
Whilst you lads gets boughs for the beds, I'll be puttin' up the stove and stow the cargo inside.
The boat comes back with full cargoat this harbour.
Skipper Zeb and Toby, waist deep in the boat, rescued the various articles of the cargo and passed them to Charley, who worked with a will until everything was salvaged.
She was then directed to a proper anchorage by the harbor master; and on the following day the transfer of her cargo to the storehouses on shore was begun.
He'll expose the captain and state that the Columbia is carrying a cargo for the Japanese Government, and that he took possession in the name of the Czar.
In that case, if he was a Russian sympathizer, he might expose the fact that while we are carrying a cargo for the Richmond Importing Company the goods are really meant for the Japanese Government.
The Columbia was carrying a cargo for the Richmond Importing Company, represented in Japan and China by Gilbert Pennington, who had served with Ben Russell in our army in Cuba and the Philippines.
He wished to know at once if the ship's cargo was safe.
Larry and Luke are aboard of their old ship, the Columbia, bound from Manila to Nagasaki, with a cargo designed for the Japanese Government.
If the Columbia is suspected of being in the employ of the Japanese Government, or of carrying a cargo for that nation, she will be taken as a prize of war and we'll go to a Russian prison most likely.
The worst of it is, our cargo may look too suspicious to them.
Every bit of cargo on this ship belongs to the Japanese Government and was to be taken ashore at Nagasaki.
I can prove thecargo on this ship belongs to the Japanese Government," said Ostag Semmel.
The last cargo of the Columbia was also sold at Nagasaki to the Japanese Government.
They continued the work, and a little later the young second mate was able to squeeze his way to the top of the cargo in that vicinity.
The Japanese Government had released the cargo of the schooner and then bought the same at a good round price.
But we never took no trip like this afore--carryin' a cargo for the Japanese Government, with that government at war with Russia.
Williams) at the Army general headquarters, chiefly for the purpose of rendering assistance in effecting cooperation as to the handling and routing of troopships and of cargo vessels consigned to Army account.
This would be a colossal undertaking; for the region up Mattawa River toward Georgian Bay is of iron rock, and to build a canal wide enough for the big cargo carriers would out-distance anything in the way of canal construction in the world.
As a matter of fact, to force the issue, to force the Dominion to declare the status of the Oriental, a Japanese ship early in 1914 did come direct from India with a cargo of angry armed Hindus demanding entrance.
Owing to the enormous increase in the cargo capacity of lake freighters in recent years, grain ships reach Buffalo carrying three hundred thousand bushels of western wheat, and Canada's Welland Canal has worked at a handicap.
We hear about a constant shortage of cars; of elevators bulging with grain every September; of miles of lake cargo carriers waiting to get in and out of their berths every October before navigation closes.
They mean city-owned trackage, so that the tramp steamer seeking cargo at cheap rates shall have every inducement and facility for getting cargo.
Well, you can figure what we should save the farmer when Panama opens and the cargo never breaks bulk to Liverpool from our shore.
As the world knows, the shipload of human cargo after lying for months in Vancouver Harbor was sent back, and Hindu leaders proved their claims of a right to citizenship by assassinating Hopkinson.
Until the Canal is widened, the big cargo carriers can not pass through it, and the necessity to break bulk here is one explanation of more than half Canada's western traffic going to seaboard by way of Buffalo instead of Montreal.
She was then overhauled, and on September 8th sailed for the Hawkesbury in order to fetch a cargo of wheat for Sydney.
Captain Barlow sent the Lady Nelson for a cargoof buffaloes.
In the meantime the Lady Nelson had been to the Hawkesbury and back again, arriving on April 21st and bringing a cargo of wheat and some cedar logs.
The Governor also gave orders for the Lady Nelson, then on the point of sailing to Norfolk Island, to be cleared of her cargo and to be made ready to sail with the Ocean back to Port Phillip.
I had the satisfaction to see her sail with a cargoof both on June 26th, eleven days after her arrival.
Their cargo consisted of stores and a quantity of salt staves and hoops for the purpose of curing pork, a supply of which was greatly needed for the colony.
The brig sailed on June 2nd and, as usual, discharging the cargo at the island proved a difficult task.
On August 9th Barry took the schooner "Polly" bound from Bermuda to Halifax with a cargo of molasses, sugar and lime and sent her to Boston.
On September on their report Congress ordered the ship "to be unladen and hercargo freighted to Europe on the best terms.
He was so rejoiced at the favorable opportunity for leaving land that he paid the whole amount for the entire cargo in advance, no less a sum than four thousand gold denarii.
Though the lot decided against Jonah, they first tried to save the vessel by throwing the cargo overboard.
Systematic villainy in the handling of the human cargo was perhaps not so characteristic in this trade as in the transport of poverty-stricken white emigrants.
Though this project was discouraged by the crown, Columbus actually took a cargo of Indians for sale in Spain on his return from his third voyage; but Isabella stopped the sale and ordered the captives taken home and liberated.
The reason seems to have been that dry-goods and sundries required much more cargo space for the same value than did rum.
The cargoof slaves, procured by aiding a Guinea tribe in an attack upon its neighbor, had been duly sold in the Indies when dearth of supplies and stress of weather drove the fleet into the Mexican port of San Juan de Ulloa.
Meanwhile bad food had brought dysentery, the surgeon, the cooper and a sailor had died, and the slave cargo was daily diminishing.
Of these proceeds about one-third was to be spent for a cargo of 105 hogsheads of molasses at 8d.
A practice often followed in the British West Indian ports was to advertise that the cargo of a vessel just arrived would be sold on board at an hour scheduled and at a uniform price announced in the notice.
He packed them carefully, as if the rusty nuts, the broken bolts, the links of cargo chain, had been so much gold he had that one chance to carry away.
On that dangerous coral formation the celebrated clipper had hung stranded for three days, her captain and crew throwing her cargo overboard with one hand and with the other, as it were, keeping off her a flotilla of savage war-canoes.
The big case made part of the first direct general cargo landed in Hong-kong harbor--an event that to the men who walked the busy quays of to-day seemed as hazily remote as the dark ages of history.
And so on, in and out, picking up coastwise cargo here and there, and finishing with a hundred miles' steady steaming through the maze of an archipelago of small islands up to a large native town at the end of the beat.
As for commerce, the British are the great Phoenicians on this coast; transporting cargo hither and bearing it hence.
When Cairn Point was reached, Hayes decided to leave the boat there, as he saw that it was impossible to take the boat and cargo across the Sound in one journey.
The steamer on arrival at the station was to discharge her cargoand then return to St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The cargo of the ship was of a harmless and useful character.
Immediately afterwards the man before him added: 'My cargo is for an English port.
So far my Ajumba friends have only tried to meet this difficulty by tying the cargo in.
The litter belonging to this mule cargo was not cleared out of her until she got into Bonny, when it was thrown overside into the river, and then the yellow fever broke out.
Every village we saw we went alongside and had a chat with, and tried to look up cargoin the proper way.
The Liverpool line is the mail line to the more important ports, the Hamburg line being almost entirely composed of cargo vessels calling at the smaller ports as well as the larger.
The sandbanks stretch across the river here nearly awash, so all our cargo of yams has to be thrown overboard on to the sand, from which they can be collected by being waded out to.
The cargo is placed amidships, heaped up in great piles--passenger boats seldom or never carrying heavy goods.
Merchant vessels are seldom of the clipper build, because the sharpness of this peculiar formation diminishes the available space for cargo very much.
The brig had been sold to the account of some other person than Monsieur Mignon, and the cargo was only worth three or four hundred thousand francs at the utmost.
Letourneur aware of the extent to which the cargo was on fire.
Evi- dently he had not the remotest suspicion that the cargo was already on fire.
We found beyond all doubt, that the cargo was on fire, and what was worse, that there was no possibility of getting at the seat of the combustion.
The cargo is put aboard in neutral waters; you take it off the coast of Spain and deliver it as arranged.
Shut up, you blatherskite; thecargo is all aboard.
Your cargo can only be delivered on one condition.
You must take the cargo aboard, and proceed off Amonti Pomoron.
The cargo is landed at high-water mark; they realize something is wrong, and hesitate whether to re-ship or re-embark without it.
The boat's bow is run on to the beach, a dozen or more men jump from her into the water and haul her up as far as the weight of the cargo will allow.
You had no business there," said he, "and to prove to you that I am right I'll swear divil a thing is there in the peak but cargo gear and other stores.
In less than an hour after darkness came on the cargo was being put aboard with amazing facility.
She was to be intercepted at Tarifa by the coastguards, and the craft with their cargo were to have been seized.
On the second day after this instruction was given the loading of the Claverhouse's cargo was completed.
The crew were jettisoning the cargo of wheat on to the ice as it flowed past, but the more they lightened the farther the vessel was forced on to the bank by the rushing current.
A pilot and interpreter will go with you, and you must not go near the land until darkness comes on, when craft showing signals which the pilot understands will be there to meet you and have men to tranship the cargo into lighters.
In an instant he had hold of the scoundrel, who, he was convinced now, was the leader of a plot to take the cargo by force.
Such an aggregation might be likened to a cargo ship all ready for service excepting that it lacks a captain and navigating officer and some one to determine what kind of a cargo to take, where to go and how to get there.
All hands therefore went to work and we had soon emptied a hundred tons of our cargo into the sea.
