Just below the point it was half a mile wide and Tatanka could easily distinguish the deep dark channel from the light brown sandbars near shore.
None of them were improved, none had any system of lights or signs; the pilots had to know the rivers, whose currents and sandbars and snags were constantly shifting.
But always just in time, the wheel turned just enough and the boat glided safely past trees and cliffs, past sandbars and snags, and around every bend and turn.
The river is wide and thesandbars numerous, and a low island near our encampment.
The party are very much afflicted with sore eyes, which we presume are occasioned by the vast quantities of sand which are driven from the sandbars in such clouds as often to hide from us the view of the opposite bank.
The current is regular and swift, with sandbarsprojecting from the points.
We passed several bad sandbars in the course of the day, and made eighteen miles, and encamped on the south, opposite to the lower point of the Oven islands.
After passing a number of sandbars we reached a willow island at the distance of twenty-two and a half miles, which we were enabled to do with our oars and a wind from the S.
In the course of the day we saw a number of sandbars which impede the navigation.
The sandbars are very numerous, and render the river wide and shallow, and obliged the crew to get into the water and drag the boat over the bars several times.
The wind too having shifted to the southwest and being very high it required all our precautions on board, for the river was full of sandbars which made it very difficult to find the channel.
The current was so rapid and the banks on the north falling in so constantly, that we were obliged to approach the sandbars on the south.
The morning had been cloudy, but the evening became pleasant, the wind from the northeast, and at sunset we halted, after coming ten miles over several sandbars and points, above a camp of ten Ricara lodges on the north side.
I believe it origenates from the immence quantities of sand which is driven by the wind from the sandbars of the river in such clouds that you are unable to discover the opposite bank of the river in many instances.
I observe that the Antelope, Buffaloe Elk and deer feed on this herb; the willow of the sandbars also furnish a favorite winter food to these anamals as well as the growse, the porcupine, hare, and rabbit.
Pumicestone; coal is in great abundance and the salts still increase in quantity; the banks of the river and sandbars are incrusted with it in many places and appear perfectly white as if covered with snow or frost.
Without a pilot they had had to probe upriver slowly, sounding for sandbars with an oar.
Not without an Indian pilot to guide them past the notorious sandbars and shoals that lined the coast like giant submerged claws.
With high tide, he had also managed to explain, there were only two sandbars they would have to avoid.
And the currents would be shifting along the coast, assandbars one by one were submerged by the incoming tide.
The power boat could tow the fleet out into the current, and hold it off sandbars or flank the bends.
Sandbars spread out for miles across the river and lengthwise of the river; the bulk of the stream seemed broken up into channels and chutes and wandering waterways.
The flood of sunset brilliance spread down the radiant sandbars and the bright waterways.
Gales might blow, fair weather might tempt, islands might interpose themselves in its way, banks and sandbars might stand against the flood, but come what might, the river poured on through its destined course like a human life.
Two windows and the stern door gave him a wide view of the river, sandbars and eddy.
With his maps before him he recognized the bends and reaches, the sandbars and islands which had loomed up in the dark.
They were passing through the famous, changeable channels among the great sandbars from Island No.
I can swing around the sandbars directly to the anchorage of the Swallow.
Far out in the bay were a group of sandbars and several small wooded islands.
Gold Creek itself spread out to nearly twice its former width, with innumerable little sandbars and a few boulders protruding from the bottom.
The wheelman, who was an old river pilot, was thoroughly acquainted with what he called the "Yukon flats," and managed to elude the sandbars and sunken islands with considerable dexterity.
Those crazy shots that peppered thesandbars without coming near a canoe, unleashed a terrific force that took the native warriors by complete surprise.
By the time the hostile tribesmen were wading up on the sandbars that the anacondas had left, Nara's boat was free.
In my study-area, this species was found not only on rubble-bottomed riffles, but occurred along both stationary and shifting sandbars where no cover was apparent.
Noturus flavus frequented riffles and swift currents alongsandbars in the Big Blue and Little Blue rivers.
Then Hiawatha called to Kwasind, and asked for help in clearing away all the sunken logs and all the rocks, and sandbars in the river-bed, and he and Kwasind traveled down the whole length of the river.
Kwasind swam and dove like a beaver, tugging at sunken logs, scooping out the sandbars with his hands, kicking the boulders out of the stream and digging away all the snags and tangles.
For days they continued travelling through the State of Missouri, contending with sandbars and head winds.
Day after day Oomah roamed the forest and the sandbars for some sign of his quarry, but there was not the slightest trace to be found.
But the turtles and the crocodiles were not the only delicacies the sandbars provided.
Santa Catharina, Porto Alegre, and Rio Grande, the three harbors south of Santos, are rendered inaccessible for any but small craft, owing to sandbars at their entrances.
Females of spinifer may utilize open sandbars for deposition of eggs but not areas where muticus occurs.
The Parisii, one of the smallest of the Gallic tribes, ill-matched against their populous neighbors, took refuge on ten islands and sandbars of the Seine and there established themselves.
Here and there a few broad-backed sandbarsshowed themselves above the surface, as though preparing to rise up and inquire what had become of the water.
The waters carried most of the eroded material away, but here and there, where they crossed a comparatively level stretch, small deposits of gravel were made or sandbars and deltas formed.
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