raftsman

They made an imposing ad- venture of it, saying, "Hist!" every now and then, and suddenly halting with finger on lip; moving with hands on imaginary dagger-hilts; and giving orders in dismal whispers that if "the foe" stirred, to "let him have it to the hilt," because "dead men tell no tales." They knew well enough that the raftsmen were all down at the village laying in stores or having a spree, but still that was no excuse for their conducting this thing in an unpiratical way.

He could wrestle any man at the railings in his day, an' he was bully of the raftsmen of the Susquehanna when he was only a youngster.

Streno raftsmen are celebrating the 20th anniversary.Raftsmen from Streno have been transporting visitors around the rocks Margita and Besna, along with the village's nearby castles, for 20 years now.

Many, including 40-year-old Adriana Consuelo, paid raftsmen 25 pesos ($1.30) to ferry them across the river on vessels constructed of giant rubber tires with wooden planks tethered across them.

Some, including 40-year-old Adriana Consuelo, went under the bridge, paying raftsmen 25 pesos ($1.30) to ferry them across the Suchiate River on vessels made of giant rubber tires.

In "The Raftsmen" they collaborate to present a dramatic and thrilling portrait of a long-forgotten true adventure and astounding seafaring achievement set in the aftermath of World War II.

Across time, this rugged topography has been home to an astonishing variety of people: Sauk, Dakota, and Ho-Chunk villagers, Norwegian farmers and Mexican mercado owners, Dominican nuns and Buddhist monks, river raftsmen and Shakespearean actors, Cornish miners and African American barn builders, organic entrepreneurs and Hmong truck gardeners.

(4) By 1890, a congressional report found that "American farmers' sons no longer follow wood chopping for a business, and their places have been filled by the French Canadians." (5) In 1900, 33.6 per cent of New England "woodchoppers, lumbermen [or] raftsmen" were French Canadian immigrants and the percentage was much higher in the northern portion of the region.

Kahnawake Mohawks participated in the logging trade, both as lumberjacks and as raftsmen floating the logs down to the mills.

By reason of it, we see that fine state of health which characterizes hunters, lumbermen, raftsmen, and sailors on shipboard.

Coming from the north, having hiked through wide and mostly uninhabited woodland areas, here, at the upper course of Kemi River, Metzger and Schulze-Berge met a group of about 200 raftsmen. In other words, they had reached the Northern European timber frontier.

We gathered the few things we had, hurried down to the rafts and the raftsmen readily agreed and set off.