A heaping cairn of round-bellied, rosy-pink earthen jars came steering past, poled by a naked statue of new copper, who balanced precariously on the edge of his hidden raft.

As we were half-rowed, half-poled, down the narrow winding channel of the Bidassoa, we were once again indubitably "'twixt France and Spain," though the vicinity of the ancient Spanish town, and the lazy sentinels on the river's bank, made the scene much more Spanish than French.

cried he, while he himself ran down to the grebe-nest and poled away from the shore.

I had just poled away from the shore when I sighted some wild geese coming from the east, shrieking like mad.

The river itself was alive with cascoes being poled about by half-naked natives, the families of the crews doing the cooking and primitive housekeeping on the half-decks, while the family fighting-cocks strutted on the roofs of the boats and crowed defiance to each other.

After passing the first poze from it, the canoes may be put in a brook and poled down two pozesthen they must be taken out and carried 1600 yards to Lake Chetac.

You haven't either, only a mass of piffling details" "If everybody waited until he saw flames, instead of relying on the testimony of the smoke," Mr. Holcombe snapped, "what would the fire loss be?" Mr. Howell poled his boat to the front door, and sitting down, prepared to row out.

So he poled slowly off.

The honors, determined chiefly by the marks given at the end of the term, being mainly the reward of a diligence rather stupid than otherwise, as a rule were regarded with great indifference, and, for the most part, fell to the men who "poled" most assiduously, and got the best marks for attention, diligence, and correct recitation of the set tasks.

He paused a moment, then folded the paper, put it in his pocket, poled the boat with vigorous strokes to the landing-place, and strode through the woods and across the cornfields homeward, his heart beating tumultuously until he seemed almost to be struggling with suffocation.

The boat was manned by six Mexicans, who sometimes poled it along, sometimes, when the stream was rapid, got ashore and towed from the bank.

He, being crop sick of his bachelor life, Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife (Nota beneThank Heaven, I'm not married): He envied his neighbours their curly-poled brats, (All swarming, as if in a village of Pats,) And sighed that so long he had tarried.

They poled their awkward craft out to Gadabout and made fast to a cleat.

We ran her forward and backward and poled most vigorously; but after all had the humiliation of drifting around the island wrong end first.

They float down-stream, and up-stream are poled by their crew, or now and then get a tow from a steamer.

The prancha was towed at the end of a hawser, and her crew poled.

CHAPTER VII BACK TO SRINAGAR Easter Day, April 23.We left the Erin district early in the morning following the bara singh fiasco, and punted and poled up the river to join the Smithsons in a last attack upon the duck.

The waters of the Maumee were low, and the boats were poled slowly up against the current, reaching the portage point, where there was a large Indian village, on the 24th of the month.

The skiffs, laden with men, were poled against the current, while bodies of footmen and horsemen marched along the bank.

The Kakalin is a rapid of the Fox River, sufficiently important to make the portage of the heavy lading of a boat necessary; the boat itself being poled or dragged up with cords against the current.

Viushin, however, with characteristic energy, hauled the drowning wretches in by their hair, rapped them over the head with a paddle to restore consciousness, pushed the boat off sand-bars, kept its head up stream, poled, rowed, jumped into the water, shouted, swore, and proved himself fully equal to any emergency.

On account of the rapidity of the current in the main stream, we turned aside into one of the many "protoks" (pro-tokes') or arms into which the river was here divided, and poled slowly up for four hours.

Taking our places again in the canoes after breakfast, we poled on up the river, shooting occasionally at flying ducks and swans, and picking as we passed long branches full of wild cherries which drooped low over the water.

In the fall of 1898, Steve and I poled up the Yukon on the last water, bound for Stewart River.

Here was a ferry with its Charon-like boat, of the primitive sortflat barge, poled over by negroes, and capable of containing at one time many bales of cotton, a stagecoach or wagon with four horses, besides passengers ad libitum.