The ferryingwas continued all night and till daylight at which time many of the Missourians' wagons in the two companies were over.
The ferrying ceased till it was fair again, and about five o'clock the first division were all over.
At four o'clock the first division commenced ferryingtheir goods over the river in the cutter and some time afterwards commenced taking the wagons across on a raft which proved to be very slow work.
The brethren continued working at the new boat, others continued ferrying the Missourians' wagons over.
The brethren renewed the ferrying early and soon after noon they had got the last wagon safely over which was a matter of rejoicing to all the camp.
The brethren commenced ferrying but got only fourteen wagons over on account of the very high wind.
The first division commenced ferrying over the river at five o'clock and took a wagon over every fifteen minutes.
The ferrying continued all day but with great difficulty on account of the strong wind blowing down stream.
Friday, July 2 The day was more pleasant and the ferrying continued more rapidly.
The brethren continued ferrying wagons over on the raft and also built two other rafts.
After the storm was over the ferrying was continued, getting my trunk, etc.
This was the 5th day spent in ferrying our pioneer company across the river, but now we had succeeded in getting all over, and we once more formed our wagons into a circle.
The ferrying was finished on the evening of the third day and we moved on three miles and camped.
Next day while we were still ferrying them over another large company arrived.
He gave us all the information {294} he could in relation to our route and furnished us with his flat bottom boat on reasonable terms to assist us in ferrying the Platte.
Our brethren helped some of the Missourians to cross, and ran their boat all night in ferrying them over.
Smith and myself then rode on to the ferrying place and found our detachment ferrying over the Missouri company who paid the brethren $1.
In the evening the flour, meal, and bacon which had been earned from the Missouri company for ferrying them over were distributed through the camp equally.
Then Devens looked and saw the light: He got him forth into the night, And watched alone on the river-shore, And marked the British ferrying o'er.
Three days were employed in ferrying the slaves across the river in the two noggurs, or barges, as they must be returned to their respective stations.
They seemed much pleased with the conversation, and a man stepped forward and showed me a small string of blue beads that Speke had given him for ferrying him across the river.
The excessive hunger we endured during the time we were occupied in ferrying across, created altogether great discontent among the troops, and they murmured loudly against Cortes, and this dreadful march.
In this way, with the utmost difficulty, we arrived at Tezpuatlan, which township we could only reach by ferrying across a broad river in canoes, for which purpose we had first to run up the river to a considerable distance.
There was a small ferrying business done also between neighboring ports in unclean native passengers, who harbored on the foredeck, and complained of want of deference from the crew.
The Grosser Carl's own boat joined the other two, once the ferrying was well under way.
The 16th April we employed in ferryingthe Expedition across the Inkissi River, and by 5.
We had performed the march in twenty hours, or in four days inclusive of our detention while ferrying with one small craft.
The ferrying over the infantry was continued with the steamer and the pontoons, taking the pontoons, however, as fast as they were wanted to put in their place in the bridge.
I ordered this done, and also directed that he should turn over all material and boats not then in use in the river to be used in ferrying the troops across.
Crossing the Sacramento again by swimming our horses, andferrying their loads in that solitary canoe, we took our back track as far as the Napa, and then turned to Benicia, on Carquinez Straits.
I thought the steamers carrying Nelson's division would be useful in ferrying the balance of Buell's forces across.
The work offerrying over Sherman's command from the north side of the Tennessee was at once commenced, using the pontoons for the purpose.
General Grant also explained to me that General Buell had reached the bank of the Tennessee River opposite Pittsburg Landing, and was in the act of ferrying his troops across at the time he was speaking to me.
On the 6th of February Bishop George Miller and a company with six wagons crossed the river, and a few days later the work of ferrying the Saints to the Iowa side was kept up day and night.
These brethren were employed in ferrying the emigrants over the river at the rate of $1.
Their stock of provisions at this time was in need of replenishing, and to have the privilege of ferrying their old enemies from Missouri over the river at this price, gave them some satisfaction.
It was a hand ferry, and the rope was fastened in a poor line for ease in ferrying at that stage of the river.
At the appointed time George brought us some food and informed us that we could cross the ferry that night, which we did, his friend ferrying us without charge.
The ferrying and bridging parties got on the move, each by their particular road, and though the wind was searchingly cold and every officer and man became thoroughly drenched, there was not a sick heart in the force.
Colonel Stanley's detachment had the charge of the boats, which were fitted with row-locks and oars, and these were to do the ferrying when the proper place was reached.
From his first ferrying project he engaged in other undertakings and laid the foundation of his subsequent fortune in steamboat navigation.
Born in 1794 in very humble circumstances, he had received little or no education, and as a youth had eked out a living by ferrying passengers and garden produce from Staten Island to New York.
The ferrying recommenced the next morning; and before night the whole tribe were safely landed, with their effects, on the west side of the river, and their wigwams were all pitched.
The ferrying ceased as night came on; the chief was likely to be on the opposite side all night, as there was a good day's work yet to be done before the whole would be transported.
For twenty years I've been ferrying here, and nobody's come to set me free.
I dreamt of a ferryman on a black sea; for twenty years he has been ferrying across it, and no one has come to set him free.
Suppose the ferry were only used for ferrying people?
I found the boat empty, a thing of steep sides and curved bottom, a thing that was surely never intended for the ferrying across of horses and carriages.
The work of ferrying the troops to Bruinsburg was commenced (p.
Ferrying at the Paria Mouth The first crossing of the river, at the mouth of the Paria, was made by a portion of a party, headed by Hamblin, in the fall of 1860.
It is very improbable that Schenck's contemplated movement across New River at Townsend's Ferry could have been made successfully; for his boats were few and small, and the ferrying would have been slow and tedious.
Morgan's artillery silenced the gun and caused the force to retreat out of range, when he put over two of his regiments, dismounted, to cover the ferrying of the rest.
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