After an interval they returned towing small rafts of the long timbers.

When spring returns, they are bound together in small rafts, and floated down towards the main river.

Around this opening the Indians station themselves on small rafts, and ply their spears with great success.

They were there arranged alongside each other, and bound together so as to form numerous small rafts.

I have seen in this country small rafts made to carry one person, which are very well contrived.

From the upper Delaware, where I had set in, small rafts are run down which they call "colts."

When cut into lumber, it was found that the stream below the mill, would carry small rafts down to the sea.

The small rafts are supplied with life-lines and oars, and the larger ones with life-lines only, or with life-lines and sails.

Small rafts could be formed, and they would quietly float down to the sequoias, where a bar, formed by the small bridge, would stop them.