I gave the raftaway yesterday at Arles & am loafing along back by short stages on the rail to Ouchy, Lausanne, where the tribe are staying at the Beau Rivage and are well and prosperous.
It was on the fifth day after that I was awakened from a sound sleep by the bumping of the raft against the shore.
When the end came the Captain stood up on the raft with wild eyes staring at the sky.
A raft was then made, and on this were placed tents, cooking-stoves, and boat-box.
No wood could be obtained to build a raft large enough for the purpose, and they were forced to stay here in an old hut until 1st October, when the river had frozen over sufficiently to allow them to cross.
So on the raft got Teddy and Janet, and for a time they had lots of fun pushing it around a shallow little cove, not far from the shore of Star Island.
We can make a raft like Robinson Crusoe did," answered Teddy, for his mother had read him a little about the shipwrecked sailor who, as told in the story book, lived so long alone on an island.
Now of course she ought not to have done that, nor ought Teddy to have got on the raft without asking his mother or his grandfather.
We can make a raft out of all the boards and pieces of wood grandpa took the things out of.
One end of the rafttipped up and the other end dipped down, and--off slid Teddy into the water.
The log raftdepicted by Madox and discussed by Miss Taylor and Mr. Wagner is a typical Peruvian sailing raft, as reference to S.
Steward and I went back up White River to finish our work but the raft timbers were gone and we could find no others, so we had to do what we could on foot.
Rather than stay there all night they made a raft of two little dead cedars and tying their shoes upon it, they waited for the moon to rise.
The banks were thick with currant bushes loaded with ripe fruit and we kept a supply of branches on the raft to pick off the currants as we went along.
There were some sharp little rapids full of rocks, and sometimes it was all we could do to stick on, for the raftbeing flexible naturally would straddle a big rock and take the form of a very steep house roof.
The latter had stolen oars and other things, and gone down on a raft to be wrecked at the first rapid in Marble Canyon, where they just escaped with their lives.
This was very soon and they slipped into the current relying on the raft merely to keep their heads above water.
Steward being a powerful swimmer succeeded after nearly going under for good in regaining the raft which Clem meanwhile had been losing and recovering quickly several times.
All the next day we kept on down White River on the raft and at seven o'clock were still five miles from camp in a direct course and no food left.
To find a small raft in mid-sea was an impossible task, and while the enemy was engaged in it the two Germans headed for Messina, then a neutral port, which they reached successfully.
After they had a good start the band on the raft began to play.
The band of the Goeben was placed on a raft and ordered on a given moment to play the German national airs after an appreciable period.
The people of the villages by which they pass make haste to push the raft out again into mid-stream, should it in its passage adhere to bank or bathing-hut, and on no account is the animal suffered to land.
The raft buried itself under the surface, leaving dry only our little stage, and the whole fabric shook and trembled as if it were about to break up.
Therefore cats are not killed; but if they become too daring in their raids on the hen-coop or the food rack, they are tied to a raft and sent floating down stream, to perish miserably of hunger.
Before anything could be done they put him, his family, and effects on a raft and started them down the river.
We silently pulled our raft into the shelter of a willow tree and waited longingly for the sun to appear from behind the Persian frontier mountains and to give us warmth.
Suddenly we saw that our raft had got loose and was floating off.
One hardly believes that an ice-raft could have first transported and then deposited such misshapen masses in their present symmetrical form.
When a raft of logs is first started in the spring the men suffer from the exposure; but after a little time the work seems to toughen and harden them, so that they do not in the least mind the amphibious life they are forced to lead.
Myself & three of our men shot and killed the deer in the water; the indians pursued it on a raft and caught it.
Side, and killed the deer in the water, the deer floated down and the Indians took it by means of a raft which they had ready.
Soon after 2 Indian men Came down on a raft and Continued with us about 3 hours and then returned to their Village.
Teton river I observed a buffalow Skin Canoe lying on the S Shore and a Short distance lower a raft which induces me to Suspect that the Tetons are not on the Missouri at the big bend as we were informed by the Ricaras, but up the Teton river.
I was treading water all the time I was doing this, and the sea being very buoyant in the Indian Ocean on account of its extra saltness, I managed to rig up my raft pretty well.
Although I was trying all I could to keep him on the raft to preserve his life, he thought I was struggling to prevent his holding on; and he commenced fighting with me, clutching hold of my neck and trying to force me under the water.
These I lashed together into a sort of raft with a long woollen comforter, which I had fortunately wound round my neck the night before while keeping watch to protect me from the damp dew, and now took off for the purpose.
Captain Mangles had arranged on the starboard side, and confided to Wilson, a kind of oar to sustain the raft against the current, and prevent its drifting.
I would pay its weight in gold for a raft that would transport us to the other side!
But soon the breeze subsided almost entirely, and the raft was motionless.
Illustration: However, the raft was entangled in the midst of the river, half a mile below where they started.
The geographer had asked Captain Mangles whether the raft could not follow the coast as far as Auckland, instead of landing the passengers at once.
However, the raft was entangled in the midst of the river, half a mile below where they started.
The captain therefore proposed to construct a raft strong enough to convey the passengers and a sufficient quantity of provisions to the New Zealand coast.
Lady Helena and Mary Grant occupied the centre of the raftnear Mulready.
The coast was only nine miles distant,--not a difficult voyage for a well-manned boat; but with the raftit was necessary to advance slowly.
Captain Mangles and Wilson at once occupied themselves in constructing a raft of large dimensions.
The work was continued, and theraft was soon ready.
Wilson took the helm, the captain stationed himself at the sail-tackling, and Mulready cut the cable that confined the raft to the brig.
The direction of the raft was changed, but the wind subsided gradually, and it cost them much time to reach the boat.
There was neither raft nor bridge, but they must cross at all hazard.
Mulready, who was in an instant ready to execute this order, let fall the anchor, and the raft drifted till the cable was taut.
They made for the water, found the raft hidden in a clump of reeds and uninjured, and stepped upon it.
There is a small raft upon it if they have not destroyed it.
Her voice rose into a cry that echoed drearily from the hills about them, and she beat her hands against the raft with a sudden passion.
Condamine, attended only by a single negro, met with an almost unparalleled adventure on a raft in this pongo.
Upon every boat or raft there are ten or twelve of these birds, ready to plunge the instant they receive a sign from their masters.
Between the two ends the raft was held up against the current by twenty-five or thirty 3,000-pound anchors, with sixty fathoms of chain on each.
Two or three 1-inch chains were stretched across from schooner to schooner, and from them to sections of the old raft remaining near either shore.
Losing no time in destroying the abandoned works, the squadron pushed on at once for Alexandria; a passage through the raft being opened by the Price's ram.
Colonel Charles Rivers Ellet,[14] of the ram fleet, volunteered to go ahead with the ram Lioness and attempt to blow up a raft which was laid across the stream.
The root idea from which the monitor type of ironclads grew was a raft carrying a fort; their hulls, therefore, floated low in the water, the deck being but a foot or two above it.
Two rows of piles had been driven across the channel, braced, and tied together; immediately below them was a raft well secured to either bank and made of logs which did not float.
But here we moored it, not venturing to take it past the millrace until we had gotten the oars from the scow and nailed on oar locks at each side and the rear, so that we could properly row and steer the raft safely to Kite Island.
I don't know whether Dutchy did any steering or not, but the raft shot straight through the opening, and was lost in a cloud of spray.
We made a raft of these materials and floated them down the river to Lake Placid.
The ropes that had held the raft together had parted, scattering the logs in all directions, and I could see the rest of the crew hanging on to them for dear life.
We now had no swift water to fear and were able to guide the raft successfully down to Lake Placid.
But in a moment the raft had righted itself and we had smooth sailing for the rest of the way.
About fifteen were thus fastened together, and then as an extra precaution a log was laid across each end of the raft and tied fast.
However, we didn't escape entirely without accident, for the raftrode up on a submerged ledge, dipping the starboard side clear under water and nearly tipping us over.
The great raft was now held in place by a frame of logs outside the others fastened together with "dogs" and chains.
You may be sure the children had to try this game of logging, and they built themselves a raft, of loose boards lying along the beach, and while Betty was the passenger Bob vigorously poled his raft about in the shallows.
The latter towed a little raft of long sharpened piles, which it at once began to drive in such positions as would most effectually strengthen the booms.
Then a raft was formed by passing new manila ropes over the logs, to each one of which the line was fastened by a hardwood forked pin driven astride of it.
If a mast is wanted, a reel, or a cork with a hole in it, may be lashed down to the raft as in the diagram, and the mast can be set firmly into this.
Lay down first the crossbar beneath the raft and then space out the raft itself to fit it, leaving a little space between each reed.
It was the leaves and rubbish on the raft and the smashed oar.
We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble.
IT must a been close on to one o'clock when we got below the island at last, and the raft did seem to go mighty slow.
I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was a stiff current, and the raft come booming down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she went.
We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care of itself.
We hustled it on to the raft in a pile, and I told Jim to float along down, and show a light when he judged he had gone about two mile, and keep it burning till I come; then I manned my oars and shoved for the light.
The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt.
Then we got out the raft and slipped along down in the shade, past the foot of the island dead still--never saying a word.
This time instead of watching the sea Willy gave his attention to the natives who had built a raft and were manning it to cross the inlet and make an attack.
Just as the first raft loaded with cannibals attempted to land, a boat with Tommy Green at the helm appeared in the opening of the coral reef and a half dozen shots sufficed to frighten away the enemy.
Once their raft came to grief in the maw of a snarling current, and they laid up two days to dry their saturated belongings.
These they forded or swam, or ferried a makeshift raft of logs, as seemed most fit.
The rest of the party coming up with the cargadores, we had to wait until bamboo rafts could be built, the raft really being nothing but a flat bundle lashed together with bejuco.
On the other hand, we did see the oddest possible ferry: a bundle or raft of bamboo, with chairs on top, towed across stream by a carabao regularly hitched up to it and getting over himself by swimming.
Meantime a rafthad started across the stream, with two men and the clothing and guns of the men who were now tying the cable to the stump.
When midstream the rope slipped and the raft upset, precipitating all in the water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raft" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
