We left in a little rowboat, and it seemed at first as if we could not overtake the steamer; but the captain saw us and slackened his speed.

A stout, capacious rowboat followed immediately in the wake of the canoe.

Cut off by half a mile of water from Papeete, it had an isolation, yet propinquity, which would have persuaded me to make it my home were I a governor; but it was given over to quarantine purposes, with an old caretaker who came and went in a commonplace rowboat.

By the way, I forgot to speak of itI bought a boat the other day, a mere rowboat.

" "I'd rather take you out in a good, solid rowboat," Dave answered slowly.