How did these coasters of the wilds guide themselves over prairies that were a chartless sea and mountains that were a wilderness?
We stood at the hotel steps and watched the swift coasters pass.
Coasters get killed now and then, and are always getting damaged in one way and another; for the track skirts deep declivities, and there are bound to be slips in steering, and collisions.
We had the company of a couple of coasters in this part of the drive; and by that, if nothing else, a man might know we were inshore.
The coasterswere colliers, three-masters both, and reefed down, wallowing in the sea.
If it is the great galley there is an end of it; if it is one of their little coasters it might be managed.
One crosses the Vilaine by the suspension bridge of La Roche-Bernard, hung so perilously high that the great three-masted coasters may pass beneath.
I have bought three coasters and eight fishing boats, and have a sufficient store of pitch and oil, with plenty of straw and faggots.
One of the other coasters has some bullocks on board.
Presently the wind nearly died out, and the galley and prizes then took the coasters and fishing craft in tow.
For some time we were employed in looking along the coast of France, and picking up all the small coasters we could lay eyes on.
A few coasters had been surprised by means of the fishing-boat, but their cargoes were of very little value, and only two or three were worth sending into port.
The evening tempted me to a stroll down to the harbor, to see the wood-coasters go out with the flood.
A fleet of coasters were standing wing and wing through the Narrows.
At such times this harbor and Gloucester are havens of refuge for all coasters caught along shore.
There was a fresh breeze outside, so that the coasters bowled merrily along with bellying sails before it, or else bent until gunwale under as they hugged it close.
First to roll in past the ledgy portals of the haven were the venerable sea-wagons--the coasters known as the "Apple-treers.
We're too far off for the coasters and too far in for the big fellers.
He saw no sign of any other craft; the storm had driven all coasters to harbor--and there was not wind enough as yet to help them out to sea again.
Day out and in the blackfish there Go wabbling out and under, And nights we watch the coasters creep From light to light in yonder.
A peek through the periscope while she was up disclosed further evidence of the breeze--tossing white crests, two coasters hustling for harbor under short sail, an inbound fisherman with reefed mainsail making great leaps for home.
And soon rose in his new profession until he was master of his own ship, and, as master, raising the devil among the coasters which used to cruise out of Maritime Province ports in those days.
There was a large crowd of coasters there, and fun was at its height.
We have spoken of the coasters that ply between the emporium and all the creeks and bays of the Sound, as well as of the numberless rivers that find an outlet for their waters between Sandy Hook and Rockaway.
She's as deep as one of our coasters comin' in with a load o' brick!
He had made it that way as it had to be short, and he wanted the little coasters to get a "good start.
On the back sled was a bell to warn other coasters out of the way, and sometimes, when there were not many on the hill, Freddie was allowed to sit on the rear sled and ring the bell.
The new campaign was directed particularly against thecoasters and fishermen.
By some mysterious agency, the coasters developed a foreknowledge of permission to proceed.
Favoured by their light draught and smaller proportions, the coasters are perhaps less exposed to successful torpedo attack than their larger and deeper ocean sisters.
Down the river estuaries and out from the sea-harbour and roadstead, the coasters still join in company through the channels.
But for the service of the coasters and the resolution of the home-trade seamen, the block to our traffic could not have been other than fatal.
A large number of coasters were at anchor before its extensive quays; it has also docks of great size.
On going out of Fowey we passed a number of coastersloaded with china clay, which is found in large quantities near this town.
Coasters and Chair Sleighs [383] Make your own sled, boys!
The only complaints I have had regarding my account from my fellow West Coasters have been that I might have said more.
The vagrant vessels that are idly watched from the rocks at the Pier may be coasters and freight schooners engaged seriously in trade, but they do not seem so.
His carpenters and blacksmiths, who are Gold Coasters and Sierra Leonites, draw from 2l.
They work, and work well: many old Coasters prefer them to all other tribes.
This change of policy is mainly due to the fact that the small coasters and fishing-boats have in great measure disappeared, their places being taken by steamers and steam trawlers.
Long ere she reached the island, the two coasters had met, and each again changed its course, reversing that on which the other had just been sailing.
This instruction of the young in the charms of Coast life is the faithfully discharged mission of the old Coasters on steamboats, especially, as aforesaid, at meal times.
I was charmed at this unwonted display of interest in the subject, and hoped also to gain further information on it from those recently shipped Gold Coasters in the smoking-room.
Two of the old Coasters never spoke unless they had something useful and improving to say.
I know Gold Coasters say in a trying way when any terrific account of anything comes before them, "Oh, that was down in the Rivers," and one knows what they mean.
When, however, there is no new Coaster to instruct on hand, or he is tired for ten minutes of doing it, the old Coaster discourses with his fellow old Coasters on trade products and insects.
There was one of these old coasters of the palm oil ruffian type who especially interested me.
The sea between us looked so calm, and softly touched with shaded lights and gentle variations, also in unruffled beauty so fostering and benevolent, that the white sailed coasters seemed to be babies fast asleep on their mother's lap.
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