In the night they had the privilege of the after cabin, where they slept on the seats and floor.
'Wooding up' was not performed with American alacrity.

To bring the steamer to land she was anchored thirty feet from shore, and two men in a skiff carried a line to the bank and made it fast.

With this line and the anchor the boat was warped within ten feet of the shore, another line keeping the stern in position.

An ordinary plank a foot wide made the connection with the solid earth.

These boats have no guards and cannot overhang the land like our Western craft.