Chapter

 1 5 |         and from Portland motor boats and steam launches had repeatedly
 2 5 |     fishing-smacks and pleasure boats dared not venture forth.
 3 5 |        Wherever it appeared the boats fled to the nearest harbor,
 4 5 |   intention of attacking either boats or people.~At this moment
 5 5 |       The cruisers, the torpedo boats, the torpedo-destroyers,
 6 5 | threaten mankind everywhere, in boats, in vehicles, and on foot.
 7 7 |         crossed by thousands of boats, these were hardly what
 8 7 |         several hundred fishing boats in addition to the dozen
 9 7 |         unaccountable currents, boats have been swept beyond all
10 7 |     with beneath the lake? Such boats are no longer impossible
11 13|       gangways on certain Dutch boats. Of these I could not understand
12 14|         the midst of a crowd of boats and shipping of every kind.
13 14|       During our passage, a few boats had been seen, but we had
14 14|       newest type, the swiftest boats yet constructed in the country.