These are named koleh, are raised about two streaks on a sampan bottom, have one mast and an upright or square sail, but long in proportion to its breadth, which rolls up.
The surf, through which it is carried in an open boat, called a sampan lonchore, renders such accidents unavoidable.
The loquacious owner of a twenty-foot sampan puts in his appearance as soon as my want is ascertained, and favors me with an unpunctuated speech of some five minutes' duration.
One would imagine, from their actions, that they were apprehensive of our sampan being pursued or ambushed by some determined party.
All semblance of anything in the nature of a continuous path terminates at the temple, and hailing a sampan bound up stream, I obtain passage to the northern extremity of the canyon.
The water is very low in the upper reaches of the river, and the sampan has to be abandoned a few miles from where it started.
All day long our modest little sampan keeps company with this gay fleet, giving me an excellent opportunity of witnessing its manoeuvres.
The gentlemen with the mediaeval weapons accompany us to the river and keep the crowd from pressing too closely upon us until I and the yameni-runners board a Ki shway sampan that is to convey me to the next down-stream city.
The sampan is towed by a team of seven coolies, harnessed to a small, strong rope made of bamboo splint.
The samesampan is re-engaged to convey us farther down stream; beneath the housing of bamboo-mats, the rice-chaff leaves barely room for us to crowd in and huddle together from the rain and cold prevailing outside.
In the course of time our sampan arrives opposite and reveals a curious two-storied cave temple, with many gayly dressed people, pleasure sampans, and bamboo rafts.
The sampan into which he stepped, in fact, did not creep up to the shore until evening.
Then I'll have a sampan take me out to the German boat.
Get in big sampan junk, pilate man no sabby jolly sailor boy come along.
The sampan came into the wind with a shock that threw us to the deck.
What could I accomplish in your courts with this fantastic tale, and for witnesses a coolie and a sampan man?
He swung the sampan a couple of points to starboard, discovering close beneath our bows the tip of another reef that stretched toward the land diagonally across the path of the wind.
We had one of the Vigilant's dinghies, besides that native sampan hung over the stern, and it had to be covered up with a tarpaulin, so that its shape wouldn't show through.
Before she had been quite an hour at rest, a meagre little man, with a red-tipped nose and a face cast in an angry mould, landed from a sampan on the quay of the Foreign Concession, and incontinently turned to shake his fist at her.
Twenty-five bags of rice would be coming off in a sampan directly, for stores.
The carriage having driven off, I was quite alone, and had some difficulty in dispersing them, and being allowed to enter the sampan I had selected.
Many of thesesampan people have never set foot on shore in their lives, and this water-life of China is one of the most extraordinary features of the country.
No accident, however, occurred, though one junk and one sampan had the very narrowest escape.
Ching Wang was invited to come on board and the sampan veered astern by its painter and taken in tow.
A moment later the sampan appeared moving toward the shore, the two soldiers loudly urging on the oarsmen.
And, what's more, how do we know that men have not been left in the sampan which brought these pirates from the prahu?
Den, later on, we steal down upon de bank, and we take one of de sampan and sail for Sarawak.
By now the narrow sampan which they had seen flying across the river, propelled by a dozen lusty oarsmen, had reached the bank, and had deposited there a Malay of forbidding appearance.
A minute later the little sampan had swung clear of the vessel's side, and was visible to the watchers, who at once gave vent to cries of surprise.
Having moored the prahu to a buoy in the centre of the creek, Tyler lay down upon the floor and set himself to think, while Li Sung went ashore in the sampan to carry out his master's wishes.
Then he stifled a yawn, remarked upon the heat and discomfort of such latitudes when compared to Old England, and would have pursued his beat had not a second movement on the part of the sampan attracted his attention.
I heard a splash as if a sampan had been dropped into the water, or an anchor had been let go.
But it would have been very difficult to moor her farther out in the stream, and even then a sampan would have taken the finder to her.
Almost at the same moment a big sampan splashed from her deck and Hanns Schlott descended into it.
Den you say dat we sneak to de sampanand out into de river?
A sampan is following," translated the girl in her tiny voice, "but we are nearly there.
The sampan reared, braving the direct onslaught of the Whang-poo's swift tide.
The sampanwas a little larger than the others, and it darted in and out on the edge of the waiting ones.
Peter tossed the sampan boy all the coins he had, and left him to gibber over them as he lifted the girl to the jetty.
Peter observed a sampan coolie give an answering wave, and the sampan sidled alongside the flat.
Satisfied as to the origin of both bullets, Peter took careful aim at the yellow sampan and emptied his magazine, slipping another clip of cartridges into the oblong hole as he watched for the result.
The sampanboy hasn't been paid," she remarked, opening her purse.
With these not altogether pleasant ideas commanding his brain he jumped into the sampan in which the maid from Macassar was smilingly waiting.
No sampan in the whole of Victoria Harbor was safe to-night, but one.
And the swaying giant he decided in a moment of rare clarity to be a sampan coolie.
He still heard that lonely, anguished voice; the black sampan still rested on his eyes, heaving on the flood tide upon which the great ship strained, as if eager to be gone.
Then have that coolie be at the Hong Kong landing stage with his sampan at midnight.
The sampan was no longer there; another had taken its place, a sampan long and as black as the night which encompassed it.
Bobbie MacLaurin leaned far out across the rail as Peter's sampan slapped smartly alongside.
The yellow sampan veered far from her course, and a sweep floated on the surface some few yards aft.
For my own sake, then," he growled, annoyed at the interruption, as the sampan was afloat.
Their sampan might have provided a last desperate expedient if other savages effected a landing.
The marks on the sand proved that only one sampan had been beached.
Before he could empty a second magazine a fortunate bullet ripped a plank out and the sampan filled and went down, amidst a shrill yell of execration from the back of the cliff.
The large triangular sail of the sampan was now bellying out in the south wind.
But before he could frame a feeble pretext for his too sanguine prediction, a sampan appeared, eight hundred yards from Turtle Beach, and strenuously paddled by three men.
Yet he was almost positive--though search alone would set at rest the last misgiving--that only one sampan had visited the island.
The idea is, that when a sampan full of Chinamen shoots in front of a big ship the Devil is supposed to follow the ship all that day, and let the Chinese junk or sampan alone.
For the Chinaman starts out every morning in his sampan with the worst kind of a River Devil after him.
That sampan full of Chinks was trying to get away from the River Devil, so they shot across our bow to fool him and we nearly ran them down.
The sampan by this time had come alongside; a woman was rowing and a vigorous conversation in Chinese ensued.
As they talked I heard the sampan push off and disappear astern.
As he spoke, a large sampan shot out from among its companions and came swiftly towards the wharf.
Five days in a sampan were needed to reach the Upper Yangtze.
At night, after a fixed hour, no one is permitted to leave shore and cross the vacant water strip except from certain piers and with the permission of the police, who take the number of the sampan and the names of its occupants.
I had been to tiffin with the captain and was just coming away when, pointing to some natives in a sampan close alongside, he said, "Have you ever seen those men dive for fish?
After crossing the creek in a crazy sampan the party separated, each taking his own line of country.
I hired a small sampan to sail me down, together with my boy, taking only a bottle of whisky, a few things for tiffin and a plum cake, the last being a Christmas gift from a Norwegian lady.
She followed the hermit to the river side, where his small and leaky sampan was drawn up on the mud.
The sampan came into the wind with a shock that threw us all to the deck.
From these plunges the sampan would emerge after a long interval, like a fish coming up to blow.
The sampan emerged from the breakers, remained afloat, slowly became manageable.
The sampan fell off, still carried high on the crest of the wave.
His sampan was his home and movable, therefore the morrow would see him turning its bow downstream to seek that strange city where he had heard, dwelt many Foreign Devils who now and then scattered wealth with a prodigal hand.
The sampan now was but the empty shell of a water beetle, that had crawled upon the bank into the sun of Fortune to spill forth a dragon fly to try newly found wings of adventure.
The God of Luck had smiled upon his boldness, and, reflecting upon it Kan Wong turned back to the river and the sampan that had so long been his floating home.
As the men in the sampan headed the boat's bow up stream again, von Horn ran along the jungle trail beside the river and abreast of the paddlers.
Far above them on the right bank Muda Saffir still squatted in his hiding place, for no friendly prahu or sampan had passed his way since dawn.
The two Dyaks, paddling in silence up the dark river, proceeded for nearly three hours before they drew in to the bank and dragged the sampan up into the bushes.
As von Horn stood by the river's bank after his conversation with Virginia, he saw a small sampan approaching from up stream.
The Chinese sampanis called sampan kotak in Singapore-- Sampan China itu kata orang di Singgapura “Sampan kotak.
The middle of the sampan is covered by a bamboo house, and in the forward part of this house the family has its kitchen fire and all its arrangements for food.
We went ashore in a sampan and at once proceeded to visit the western suburb.
The sampan has a sharp bow and a wide, square stern, and navigators say it will live in a sea which would swamp the ordinary Whitehall boat of our water-front.
Here, paddle me across," he said to one of the natives who was cleaning out his sampan ready for any passengers who might want to be put across to the island.
No small sampan could have broken a way like this.
His words seemed to give the men fresh strength, and they forced the sampan on with renewed force.
My curiosity, however, would not allow me to resist the temptation of attending the party in my gig; and I had my friend Mr. Brooke as a companion, who was likewise attended by a sampan and crew he had taken with him to Sarawak from Singapore.
The Balagnini cruise in large prahus, and to each prahu a fleet sampan is attached, which, on occasion, can carry from ten to fifteen men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sampan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry; galleon; junk; vessel; yacht
