But from the scows guns began to thunder, whereupon the dragoons thundered in answer from their muskets; smoke rose over the water in cloudlets, then stretched out in long strips.
As far as the eye reached, it saw scows and rafts, pushed forward by oars, with measured movement, in the clear water.
Since there were scows enough, and fewer men were returning than had come, they took their places quickly and easily.
In the slip on our other side a large freight boat was loading, and a herd of scows and barges were pressing close around her.
So I dismissed my motorboat and grimly turned to scows instead.
I think," continued the Nun, "that when the scows return southward we will be losing Snowdrift.
The two women could see him striding back and forth issuing orders regarding the mooring of scows and the unloading of freight.
The scows were caught steadily now in the grip of the river, and it seemed to Kent, as he watched them go, that they were the last fugitives fleeing from the encroaching monsters of steel.
Perhaps she came in this morning with one of the up-river scows and was merely taking a little constitutional," he suggested.
To it came from the south all the freight which must go into the north; on its flat river front were built the great scows which carried this freight to the end of the earth.
There were sixteen scows in the brigade, and the biggest, he knew, was captained by Pierre Rossand.
The settlers brought their families and belongings either on pack-horses along the forest trails, or in scows down the streams; they settled in palisaded villages, and immediately took steps to provide both a civil and military organization.
All the lagunas, canals, and ditches that have been described are navigated by small scows that draw but a few inches of water, which are the medium of an extensive internal commerce.
On either side of the steamer, rows of scows received the flying cargo, and on each of these scows a sweating mob of men charged the descending slings and heaved bales and boxes about in frantic search.
So those bound up-river pitched their poling-boats and shod their poles with iron, and those bound down caulked their scows and barges and shaped spare sweeps with axe and drawing-knife.
There was a famously terrible one, on which scows smashed like egg-shells under a hammer, and we missed it by a bare hand's-breadth.
Boats and scows were lined up for miles along the river shore.
Scows had been hauled high and dry on the gravel, and there the owners were living.
Down it, with menace and terror on its wings, rushes the furious wind, driving boats and scowscrashing on an iron shore.
Thousands of ungainly boats, rafts and scows were waiting to be launched.
Hundreds of boats and scows were running the rapids, and we watched them with an untiring fascination.
She stuck fast, however, on the top, and the scows had to be sunk again before she finally floated clear and moved off into deep water.
Next morning the water being smooth, the guns of the Lawrence, the largest vessel, were taken out, and two scows placed alongside and filled till they sunk to the water's edge.
Seventy boats and a large number of scows having been collected at Black Rock, he issued his orders for the troops to be in readiness early on the morning of the 28th of November, to cross over and attack the enemy.
The barges and scows not wanted by the conquerors were scuttled and sunk, or fired and burned to the water.
So the chief engineer ordered all hands down on scows and rafts, which were straightway jammed close against the false work by the current.
But it was a hopeless fight now; the engineer saw this, and at two o'clock ordered all hands off the scows and back to the shore.
They brought better-paying work for his mother than sewing pants for the sweater, and Uncle Pasquale abandoned the scows to become a porter in a big shipping-house on the West Side.
The scows have their noses poked into the bank, the men have built smudge fires in front, but we decide that the best way to escape the mosquito is to go to bed.
A double cabin is assigned us on The Mackenzie River and the nightmare that haunted us on the scows of wet negatives and spoiled films vanishes.
Mr. Brabant comes up with "I wonder if that bunch of nuns is going to get here in time to take scows with us," and we pass into the billiard-room and watch the game.
The scows tie up, and without undressing we sleep on board, pulling a tarpaulin over us and letting the rain rain.
The "free trader" still takes his scowsdown this Rapid of the Damned, but the H.
Scows will allow us to proceed more leisurely and to see more as we go, so the second day we turn the steamer back and transfer ourselves and our belongings into a little open craft or model-boat The Mee-wah-sin.
The Athabasca Transport of which we form joyous part makes a formidable flotilla: seven specially-built scows or "sturgeon-heads.
Illustration: Starting up the Athabasca] We confess to being a little homesick as we wave farewell to the half hundred passengers in the familiar scowsembarked for their two hundred and thirty-eight mile journey up the Athabasca.
Illustration: Our transport at Grand Rapids Island] At Grand Rapids Island we overtook two scows which had preceded us from The Landing and whose crews had waited here to assist in the transport.
Lines are run from the wreck to the shore, other scows discharge their cargo on the bank and push out to take the water-logged goods from the wreck.
It will be pretty wet on board the scows now, and they'll have had to put a man on each to steer.
It was blowing pretty fresh when she left us, and if the scows had broken adrift again, there'd have been some risk of losing them.
Plate LI, shows the chutes through which the earth was dumped on the decks of the scows to form a padding on which to dump the heavier rock.
Only a few of the scows are brought back, for they have to be tracked up by power of man.
Once arrived at Athabasca Landing, the supplies are loaded on to scows or, in the winter, to sleighs, and from thence carried to their destination.
There are four hundred men employed here at the Landing in building scows and transhipping.
Two were used in lifting the muck buckets from the wagons and dumping their contents on the scows for final disposal (Fig.
Arriving at the dock, the buckets were lifted by electrically-operated stiff-leg derricks and their contents deposited on scows for final disposal.
Men moved about on the beach; two bulky scowsstood nose-on to the shore.
Men to the number of twenty or more clustered about bothscows and the Panther's deck, busy with pipe and cigarette and rude jest.
Then I'd take the Panther and what gear I have on the scows and pull off Roaring Lake.
Illustration: The Grahame Towing Freight-scows on Lake Athabasca] I must take this opportunity of congratulating the Hudson's Bay Company on the efficient manner in which their steamers are managed.
He quit the brigade upon a pretext and when the scows returned Hélène bore the name of Bossuet.
The explanation of these fires is that all freight for the north country goes down Athabaska river and the men who steer the scows down walk back along the banks.
Bundled into scows, passengers were towed by the light-draft boats to within some thirty feet of the shore, and then the scows were allowed to drift in upon the moderate but wetting surf.
Our goods were transferred from the scows to the pack mule train.
We had better accommodations here, a large adobe house, kept by a Spaniard and wife and daughters, under the supervision of the steamship company, which also controlled the scows that we used on the river Chagres.
I wish you'd have your gang come up with those scows and get that stuff out of my back yard.
I've called Mike Hennen in Red Hill; he's sending his scows back for the stuff he brought here.
It was fifty feet square and twenty feet deep, and still going deeper, with a power shovel in it and a couple of dump scows beside.
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