After feeding a minute or two at the bottom, and when one would suppose that he must inevitably be swept far down-stream, he emerged just where he went down, alighted on the same snag, showered the water-beads from his feathers, and continued his unfinished song, seemingly in tranquil ease as if it had suffered no interruption.

Early in the afternoon he launched his canoe and drifted down-stream with the current.

They had slipped a mile down-stream when he leaned over and laid a fearless hand on Kazan's head.

It is said, on what seems to be good authority, that when he saw the San Raphael moving down-stream under the Republican colors, he telephoned to the Prime Minister, Teixeira de Sousa, to ask whether there was not a British destroyer in the river that could be got to sink the mutinous vessel.

As soon as he reached the water his hind feet were seen tearing into the nest, kicking it to pieces; then he let it go and struck out for the shore, the nest floating in rags down-stream.

They were coming slowly down-stream, and gradually working their way into the center of the river.

Lucy had vanished as soon as it was proper; but, agreeably to her request, I got the sloop's head down-stream, and began our return-passage, without even thinking of putting a foot on the then unknown land of Albany.

When the others saw him being carried down-stream they cried, "Don't go and leave us!

With fresh resolution, he bent again to his oars, noting with a quick eye that the current had carried him far down-stream while he stopped to look upon the holy edifice.

You will take your boat down-stream, if you please.

Below, in the debris of the superstructure, the up-stream girder lay upon the down-stream one.

Of less weight now it seemed that out on the river the despatch-boat had shifted her berth down-stream and with steam up lay where the first few wheel turns would put her out of sight.

We were more than half the breadth of the river away from the tapir, and somewhat down-stream, when it dived.

With no little difficulty the big, round black body was hoisted into the canoe, and we all turned our prows down-stream.

The distance we covered in a day going down-stream would have taken us a week if we had been going up.

All the canoes had gathered there, and Rondon, Lyra, and Kermit started down-stream to explore.

Then the dugout with its load of sick men started down-stream, and Rondon, Lyra, Amarante, and the twelve remaining men resumed their weary march.

We had passed the last of the rapids of the chasm, and the four boats were going down-stream when he appeared behind some trees on the bank and called out that he wished to surrender and be taken aboard; for the murderer was an arrant craven at heart, a strange mixture of ferocity and cowardice.

In the other, of the thirty-six soldiers who composed the party ten were killed, eight wounded, and the greater part of the provisions and goods they were conveying were captured; while the survivors, pushing down-stream, ultimately made their way to the Illinois towns.

When further pressed the people shifted into the headmost scow, cut holes in its sides so as to work all the oars, and escaped down-stream, leaving the Indians to plunder the two abandoned boats, which contained twenty-eight horses and fifteen hundred pounds' worth of goods.

While taking his trading boat up the Wabash, Vigo was attacked by an Indian war party, three of his men were killed, and he was forced to drop down-stream.

The little rusty, pudgy steamboat lay at the down-stream side of the Foundry wharf.

The monkey-boat lay with her stem down-stream, and her after-parther habitable quarterscovered by a black tarpaulin.

Thus furnished, they bade her good-bye for the day, left the dubious 'Dolph in her charge, and tip-toeing past the rear of the caravan where slept the dreaded Gavel, gained the meadow's end, passed a weed-grown ruinated lock below the churchyard, and struck into a footpath that led down-stream between the river and a pretty hanging copse.

The Seattle No. 4 lost way and drifted down-stream, and Captain Scott had to go ahead and reverse a second time.