The Indian gravely raised his paddle, and pointed in the direction in which his own steady look was riveted.
The Indian made no other answer than by dropping his paddle into the water, and urging forward the canoe.
If only I dared to sit up and paddle, I made sure that I could overhaul her.
Up I got, was welcomed almost instantly by another cloud of spray, but this time stuck to my purpose and set myself, with all my strength and caution, to paddle after the unsteered HISPANIOLA.
In a frenzy of despair, I bent to the grandfather of all
paddles in a hopeless effort to escape, and still the copper giant behind me gained and gained.
She was kneeling forward looking at me, and I said, 'Take your paddle,' while I struck the water with mine.
High in the stern, his head muffled up in white rags, the juragan sat moody, letting his paddle trail in the water.
He was standing in front of him, his
paddle in one hand, asking Baynes where he was hit when there was another shot from shore and the Negro pitched head long overboard, his
paddle still clutched in his dead fingers--shot through the forehead.
Five were at the
paddles, while the sixth sat in the seat of honor.
We had a very pleasant day; my trusty valet plied the
paddle and swept us gently along the margin of the water, beneath the shades of the overhanging thickets.
Mohegan threw the fastening of the youth’s boat from the canoe, and with one stroke of his
paddle sent the light bark over the water like a meteor.
"But now that you have killed all my warriors, I do not know that even I can leave your country, for there will be none to wield the
paddles, and without paddlers we cannot cross the water."