In their extremity they asked each other who should help them, if not the holy monks, who had come over the sea to the abbey in the Valley of Deadly Night Shade; and one of the ferrymen at once set out for Furness.
There was something about this ferry and the two ferrymen which was transmitted to others, which many of the travellers felt.
What had also disappeared was a small basket, woven out of bast of two colours, in which the ferrymen kept those copper and silver coins which they received as a fare.
Under the mask offerrymen the pirates pursued after, and called upon Teaou fa to stop.
Fa, confident in her strength, and that victory would be on her side, let the ferrymen come near, as if she had not been aware of the deceit.
And on the other side the voice kept on shouting, and a revolver was fired twice, for the man probably thought the ferrymen were asleep or gone to the village inn.
In a week's time, when the floods had subsided and the ferry would be fixed up, all the ferrymen except Simeon would not be wanted any longer and the Tartar would have to go from village to village, begging and looking for work.
The Tartar and the three ferrymen took the long, broad-bladed oars, which in the dim light looked like a crab's claw, and Simeon flung himself with his belly against the tiller.
For working at the oars day and night he was paid two copecks a day; the passengers gave tips, but the ferrymen shared them out and gave nothing to the Tartar, and only laughed at him.
By the bank they were sitting on, loomed a great barge, which the ferrymen call a karbass.
It's cold," said one of the ferrymen hoarsely, as he stretched himself on the straw with which the damp, clay floor was covered.
The ferrymen plied the oars with a slow measured stroke; Brains hung over the tiller with his stomach pressed against it and swung from side to side.
I went down to the ferry, but the ferrymen also strongly advised me to remain at Vincennes, as the road was quite impassable: however I was obstinate, and crossed the ferry.
Yet I made no progress, so I resolved to dash at it, and wade through the water to some houses about two miles off, where the ferrymen had told me I should find dry ground.
In his everyday dress, old Henner was not distinguished from the other ferrymen and porpoise-hunters.
The man who gave these orders was foreman of the ferrymen and porpoise-hunters, old Henner Friser, or Henner Hjulmand, as he was sometimes called.
He rejoined them on the quay, where Sir Lave commanded the ferrymen to convey the gentlemen, in their fleetest sloop, and without delay, to Helsingborg.
The more experienced ferrymen shook their heads, and thought it was most advisable that the skiff should seek shelter under Fanoe or the Jutland Weald.
This being settled, the ferrymen demanded equally preposterous payment for carrying across the caravan.
After some time a ferry-boat appeared, but the ferrymen declined carrying the party over before they had informed their master.
He was, however, not to be defeated, and, proceeding along the banks of the river, at length found some ferrymen who did not hesitate to take him across.
Heavy payment was demanded by the ferrymen for crossing in their wretched canoes; but the cattle and donkeys had to swim across.
It was a dark, wet night when they reached the other side, and it was only after much entreaty and promises of reward that the ferrymen allowed them to take shelter in the dirty smoky caves where they lived.
Mr. Ogren at once despatched a message to their old Chinese friend asking for help, and four days later the man returned with some money, nearly the whole of which the ferrymen claimed, and obtained by means of threats.
But there happened to be among theferrymen a smart fellow who knew more about these matters than the others.
The story is told by the ferrymen to travellers: see Mythology of Greece and Italy, p.
With these ferrymen Spyros and Stathi almost immediately became involved in a furious controversy, aided by our cohort of muleteers.
Prayer and provender never hinder a journey," is an excellent maxim within reasonable limits, but the practice of Russian ferrymen shows how the best of rules may be abused.
The ferrymen were all on the opposite shore with their boats, and of course asleep, and we were anything but sanguine of rousing them.
An hour sufficed to persuade the ferrymen to tempt the crossing, and another hour saw us over the water and in the town of Mariinsk.
The Russian ferrymen have a very inconvenient habit of stopping to cross themselves, and mutter invocations to the saints while in the most critical situation.
So low, exposed, and precarious is the shore at Scarinish, that, often for weeks, the ferrymendare not venture out to the steamer for passengers.
Once clear of the Fingal, the adroit ferrymen did their duty well, and in less than ten minutes we were all landed.
At the period when Gíw arrived on the banks of the Jihún, the stream was very rapid and formidable, and he requested the ferrymen to produce their certificates to show themselves equal to their duty.
He rode a day, a second, and a third, and came to the first ferry: the ferrymen were sleeping on the opposite bank.
The ferrymen sprang up that minute and ferried him across the river.
Tsarevich Ivan; and drawing forth his stout blade, he struck to the right and to the left, and beat all the ferrymen till they were half dead, and then went on further.
So he whistled a half whistle, and immediately the ferrymen started from their slumber and rowed him across the stream.
So he took leave of the Baba-Yaga and went on further, and he came at last to the first ferry, and he saw the ferrymen on the other side, lying down asleep.
In those days, when bridges were few, the ferrymen were apparently much relied upon as agents to detect and apprehend runaways.
And it is a peculiarity of ferrymen that when you want them they are (like this reluctant fellow) always on the other side.
Not that most ferrymen seem to desire human intercourse; but perhaps they did once, before the monotony of their task soured them.
Theodore paused, and gazed upon that dark and gloomy wood, uncertain by what path he should direct his steps, and without remarking the keen and eager eyes with which the two barbarian ferrymen examined him from head to foot.
In truth I know not," replied Theodore, "unless it was that I began by speaking to the ferrymen in the Alan tongue.
The ferrymen had driven them off by firing their rifles in the air; and they expected and received the colonel's praise for their self-restraint; for the colonel is doing all he can to persuade the Indians to stop their blood feuds.
There are wild Nhambiquaras in the neighborhood, and recently several of these had menaced the two ferrymen with an attack, even shooting arrows at them.
I recollect I was On Rhine the best offerrymen that e'er took oar in hand.
Anton began to inquire at once of the ferrymen for news beyond the Dnieper.
He found, however, scows ready, and ferrymenwho took over peasants fleeing to the Dnieper.
The ferrymen suspected that he was a noble in disguise, but were afraid to detain him because they had heard that the forces of the prince were at hand.
But soon he set the ferrymen at rest, and began to inquire about the Demianovka peasants.
Then Jud should follow to keep the bunch moving, while Ump and the two ferrymen fed the line, a few at a time, keeping it unbroken, and as thin as possible.
Ump was sitting on the Bay Eagle, his coat and hat off, giving some order to the ferrymen who were starting to bring up the cattle.
The move was so swift and uniform, and the distance to the water so short, that Ump and the ferrymen had barely time to escape being swept in with the steers.
The two ferrymen were bareheaded, in their brown homespun coats.
The Court also ordered that for transporting officers in the colony service, the ferrymen should be allowed L4 per annum for the past, and L6 per annum for the time to come.
Charles River to prevent persons from venturing over on the ice for fear of drowning; and the ferrymenare put upon cutting and clearing the ice, which they do so happily, that I think the boat passeth once a day.
A plaited bamboo rope was stretched across the river--about sixty feet broad--and used by the ferrymen for hauling their boat backwards and forwards.
Mr. Baber has already disposed of the question of the navigability of the river at a point very much farther east, and I need only remark that the queries put by me to the ferrymen on this subject were met with the answer "impossible.
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