When the paddlers rested for a time, the stillness and gloom of the place became almost painful: our voices waked dull echoes as we conversed, and the noise made by fishes occasionally whipping the surface of the water was quite startling.
Indian paddlers were now, however, almost impossible to be obtained, and Government officers were obliged to travel as passengers in trading-vessels.
The river was here of immense width, and the current was so strong in the middle that it required the most strenuous exertions on the part of our paddlers to prevent us from being carried miles away down the stream.
It would be very difficult for a private individual to explore it, as the necessary number of Indian paddlers could not be obtained.
But the big boats filled with rowers or paddlers were gaining fast, when a crack came from the Canadian shore, and a warrior fell in the boat.
But the boat came steadily on, the paddlers probably knowing that it would be a matter of great difficulty for the marksman to reload while in the water.
One of the paddlers in the pursuing boat sprang up convulsively, then fell over the side and disappeared.
The remaining four aroused, took their rifles and gazed at the black dots which had now increased from four to six, and which were taking the shape of long canoes with at least half a dozen paddlers in every one.
He told the paddlers to push the boat among them until it should be completely hidden and then he waited.
He feared that one of the other paddlers might be getting pretty near his last effort, and wished to encourage the balance of his chums to renewed efforts.
At once the boat began to fly through the water so fast ahead of the squall that the paddlers found their work of no use, and drew in their paddles.
One of the paddlers on the raft fell, with an arrow through his shoulder.
These seats were for the paddlers to sit on, but the paddles were so long, in order to reach the water, that they were like oars, and it was hard to handle them against the ocean waves.
Then some began to back and others to row, and the canoe turned slowly round and then sped away at a rate as fast as it had come up, although the number of paddlers was markedly decreased.
Several times the paddlers had to exert themselves to the utmost to avoid spots where great swells of water showed that there were rocks below the surface, but on no occasion did the Indians have to use their poles.
This was about a hundred yards in diameter, with a depression in the centre, and round this the raft was carried at a rate that defied the efforts of the two paddlers to check.
In vain the paddlers tried to edge the raft out little by little from the whirlpool.
Noiselessly the expert paddlers sent the canoe over the bosom of the bayou, turning this way and that, in accordance with whispered directions from Raymon, whose keen eyes searched the still waters in front.
One of the paddlers instantly sprang into the water and caught the end of the severed harpoon line, which was at once secured to the canoe, for otherwise the great body would sink and all the trouble be in vain.
In spite of his clumsy form, the manatee had a wonderful turn of speed, and the sinewy paddlers strained every nerve to bring Raymon within striking distance.
He had no difficulty in securing the co-operation of Raymon, who was only too glad to join him, and who undertook to procure a canoe and two of the best paddlers in his tribe.
I took it there because I heard from Babalatchi's paddlers that the white men are coming here.
In a small canoe with two paddlers and the faithful Ali for a steersman he would disappear for a few days at a time.
The red-skins did not wait to reload, but ran back to the forest, and a minute after they had disappeared among the trees she saw a canoe with three paddlers dash out from some bushes in which it had been concealed.
Although it had seemed that the paddlers were all doing their best before, the added speed of the canoes told that their exertions had been redoubled.
But now that you have killed all my warriors, I do not know that even I can leave your country, for there will be none to wield the paddles, and without paddlers we cannot cross the water.
We got him to sit down at last by ordering the paddlers nearest him to throw him overboard, but nothing would stop his evil croaking any more than flat refusal to admit the truth of what he gloated over lessened our real conviction.
He gave the headman the right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his village, if the paddlers were not forthcoming.
Each canoe load of soldiers was made responsible for the paddlers and the speed was set by zu Pfeiffer in a large canoe with Sakamata as guide.
Never had those paddlers driven canoes so speedily and persistently.
Sitting in full uniform upon the poop of the launch, together with the two sergeants, zu Pfeiffer held a shauri and demanded sufficient paddlers to man his forty canoes.
The majority of the paddlers were so exhausted that they dropped in the canoes and had to be thrown ashore, where they lay inert, their backs, bloody with the urgent bayonet pricks, caking in the sun.
Just as they heard the distant crowing of cocks from the village for which they were bound, fourpaddlers collapsed.
The next morning the sky was clear and the sun rose beautifully, and soon after sunrise you could have heard the paddlers sing merry songs of the Commi.
The day after my landing I dispatched Sholomba with a canoe filled with paddlers up the river.
Our paddlers informed us on our way down that iguanas lay their eggs in July and August, and crocodiles in September.
One with nine strong paddlers persevered for some time after all the others gave up the chase.
The paddlers place meal on these rocks as an offering to the turbulent deities, which they believe preside over spots fatal to many a large canoe.
The canoes were poor leaky affairs, and so low in parts of the gunwale, that the paddlers were afraid to follow the channel when it crossed the river, lest the waves might swamp us.
Above the Falls the paddlers always stand in the canoes, using long paddles, ten feet in length, and changing from side to side without losing the stroke.
As we sat at the foot of the rapids, watching for the last dugouts with their naked paddlers to swing into sight round the bend through the white water, we talked of the northern spring that was just beginning.
The tapir was coming down-stream at a great rate, only its queer head above water, while the dugouts were closing rapidly on it, the paddlers uttering loud cries.
The colonel returned, and not long afterward one of the paddlers who had been watching the river called out to us that there was a tapir in the water, a good distance up- stream, and that two of the other boats were after it.
Kermit with two paddlerswent in the smallest of the good canoes; Colonel Rondon and Lyra with three other paddlers in the next largest; and the doctor, Cherrie, and I in the largest with three paddlers.
My own paddlers lost or broke all of their own paddles so as to get the North American ones, which they marked with their initials and used most carefully.
Then the muscles stood out on the backs and arms of the paddlers as stroke on stroke they urged us away from and past the obstacle.
We jumped into the canoe and the two paddlers dug their blades in the water as they drove her against the strong current, edging over for the opposite bank.
In making the same passage the dugout would go sideways toward the rapid until by a supreme effort her three powerful paddlers and steersman would right her just in time.
They reached the bottom with the canoe upright, but so full as barely to float, and the paddlers urged her toward the shore.
There was no trace of it; we gazed eagerly in all directions; the dugout in front came alongside our canoe and the paddlers rested, their paddles ready.
Two canoes would be a good arrangement for from five to seven men, with at least one steersman and two paddlers to each canoe.
By torch light, numerous canoes, with paddlers standing by, were drawn up on the beach, to accommodate those who purposed following the poor diver to his home.
But familiar with the rock, our paddlers only threw back their heads, to catch the cool, pleasant tricklings from the mosses above.
Here we were overtaken by a swift gliding canoe, which, bearing down upon us before the wind, lowered its sail when close by: its occupants signing our paddlers to desist.
But peons or paddlers to the number of two or four to each large canoe their several captains insisted on having.
The paddlers or peons, of whom there were seven on each side of our hero's huge canoe, worked together well.
As for the long-nosed man's canoe, its four paddlers probably had kept it in the fore, and there was not much chance of overtaking it.
It was a long way, yet, to the steamer, and although Mr. Adams urged the two paddlers to hurry, the canoes appeared only to creep.
With its paddlers grunting in unison, the water spurting from the prow, and the three passengers lolling back, it surged past.
Now urged by four paddlers instead of two, it fairly flew, cleaving the current while the dim shores and water grew lighter.
At the promised time he had the canoes and paddlers on hand and the goods safely stowed away while one big craft was fitted up as comfortably as possible for the men of the party.
Mr. Damon drew back so suddenly that he tilted the canoe, and the black paddlers looked around wonderingly.
Two strokes took the canoe round the projecting point of bushes, and she then darted along the shore, driven by the greatest efforts of which the three paddlers were capable.
For the first time since they started the three paddlers exerted themselves to the utmost.
The peril was great, and it needed all the strength and activity of the white men and the skill of the paddlers to avoid the danger which momentarily threatened them.
The loss of three paddlers for even so short a time checked the pace of the canoes.
Five minutes later the canoe with its eight sturdy paddlers started on its way, speeding like an arrow from the ice-covered island which had done them such good service in their greatest need.
There were but three cedar boats ahead of the boatman's daughter, and all were coming down the return course, the paddlers straining to do their very best.
The handicap on the birch canoes was really greater than was expected, for being in the rear, they had to dodge all the overset boats and the other paddlers who did not know enough to keep out of the course.
To make the situation more difficult, a luxurious Isisi canoe with twenty paddlers had arrived to carry her to the city, and the headman in charge had brought a letter from her future lord welcoming her in copper-plate English.
Away down by the little quay on the river his sweating paddlers were lying exhausted, for Bosambo had come by the river day and night.
He surveyed the two-and-twenty canoes with their twenty paddlers to each, and duly noted that each paddler carried his fighting spears as a matter of course.
She watched the sweating paddlers as they dug the water rhythmically singing a little song, and already she tasted the joys of dominion.
Quickly," said Abdul, and the paddlers stroked furiously, then stopped.
In the early hours before the dawn four swift paddlers brought the news to Sanders, who was sleeping aboard the Zaire, made fast to the beach of Akasava city.
As the weeks passed and his brother showed no signs of departing, Bosambo took his swiftest canoe and ten paddlers and made his way to the I'kan where Sanders was collecting taxes.
She came to earth as the paddlers ceased, not together as at a word of command but one by one as they saw the obstruction.
An hour later he was going down-stream as fast as a five-knot current and his swift paddlers could take him.
Tobolaka, naked save for his skin robe and his anklets of feathers, danced the dance of quick killing, and the paddlers of the royal canoe were publicly executed--with elaborate attention to detail.
On a night when the canoe was beached on an island, and the paddlers prepared the noble Arachi's food, the borrower questioned his charge.
Then from the rushes came a third canoe with a full force of paddlers and, remarkable of a savage man's delicacy, two women of the Ochori.
Here he left his paddlers and his guest, and made his way up the creek of Still Waters.
De Levis, held back by the vacillating Vaudreuil, had not yet come from Montreal, and the swiftest of the Canadian paddlers was sent down Lake Ticonderoga in a canoe to hurry him on.
The light was so good that Willet distinctly saw the paddlers at work and the other warriors sitting upright.
Shortly afterward the Mohawks brought the canoe to land, and two of the paddlers stepped out.
However, they soon saw that it had been successful, for the paddlers pushed out into the current and disappeared down the river.
The paddlers appeared tired, and the lads felt certain that they had paddled desperately down the river in a last effort to overtake them before they reached the Delaware hunting grounds.
Those warriors are painted for war," said Running Fox, after the paddlers had passed from hearing.
The change of paddlers brought Anthony to the place of bow paddler in the third canoe.
And the paddles clicked and dipped, as the paddlers began to feel the energy rising in their systems.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paddlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
