The big plantation bell was ringing wildly as the German Resident ran down the beach, and he could see whaleboats hastily putting off from the schooner.
With the two whaleboats out and towing, and with Carl-sen heaving the lead, the Kittiwake sluggishly entered a deep and narrow indentation.
The majority of the carriers and half the police went round by the beach, but we in the two whaleboats had some exciting moments in the rough sea, though with the sails up we made good progress.
Nothing of this was missed by Dag Daughtry, who knew a dog when he saw one, as he studied Michael in the light of the lanterns held by black boys where the whaleboatswere landing cargo.
All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances, originally invented by the Nantucket Indians, called druggs.
The two whaleboats were already on shore with some of the crew, and their nude, brown-skinned figures could be seen walking about on the beach, or gathering a last lot of coconuts for the voyage.
I think, sir, that after dinner I had better take one of the whaleboats with four or five hands and two days' provisions, run down to the big island, and see what it is like.
I want two whaleboats this year," said the shrewd native.
Before he had time to gauge the battle, Stirling heard the rush of men who were seeking safety behind the galley house and within the gloom of the whaleboats on the port side.
Another followed from the revenue cutter's bow gun, and this burst in the whaleboats that lined the starboard rail.
On the twenty-second of August his fleet of whaleboats and bateaux pushed out on Lake Ontario; and, three days after, landed near the French fort.
Lord Howe, with Rogers and Bradstreet, went inwhaleboats to reconnoitre the landing.
The remains of burnt bateaux and whaleboats were scattered along the shore.
Colonel Jonathan Bagley commanded at Fort William Henry, where gangs of men were busied under his eye in building three sloops and making several hundred whaleboats to carry the army of Ticonderoga.
In October Rogers was passing with twenty men in two whaleboats through the seeming solitude of the Narrows when a voice called to them out of the woods.
He was the boat-steerer on board the Florentia one voyage, and steered in the pulling race for whaleboats at the regatta on anniversary day, which we won the year before last in Sydney harbour.
As the merry clink of the windlass pauls echoed amidst the verdurous glens and crags of the mountains that surround Lele, the traders, with their wives, families, and followers, pulled off in their whaleboats and came aboard.
In the mean time he manned one of the trader's whaleboats with a native crew, and sent her round to Coquille to pick me up, as he fancied the ship would be easier boarded from there than from Utwe.
A number of American whaleboats under captain Manly captured three British ships with various stores intended for the army.
So, to make a long story short, we picks up a crew of half a dozen black boys, pulls the two whaleboats back to the ship, ups hook and sails away on our legitimate business.
We cleared away both whaleboats and landed the brotherhood on the island, where there was a wharf an' a big tradin' station.
As I have said on a preceding page, some of the natives now use bomb-guns for dispatching the harpooned whale, and all the whaleboats are provided with steel whale lances obtained from the ships.
The two whaleboats and the wherry at once got under way for the target near which Herc had last been seen.
The whaleboats were beginning to back away to safe quarters before the firing commenced.
By haulage and portage a perpetual procession of whaleboats and nuggars was kept moving up to the dockyard at Gemai.
The fishermen use the excellentwhaleboats (or baleinieres), so admirably suited to the heavy swell of the Indian Ocean, in which they go out in the morning, returning to the shore at nightfall.
A whaler was cruising in the neighbourhood of the island, while one of his slim whaleboats was pursuing a school of sperm whales, which sported about in great numbers.
Our four-pounder popguns'd be good against whaleboats but not for anything bigger.
One o' those Long Island buccaneer whaleboats chased us more 'n an hour.
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