fire-boat

• “Save in the white man's fire-boat which is of iron and is bigger than twenty steamboats on the Yukon," said Ebbits.”

  THE WHITE MAN'S WAY

• “But the white man would not let him cross the salt lake in the fire-boat, and he returned to sit by the fire and hunger for the country under the sun where there is no snow. ”

  THE WHITE MAN'S WAY

• “He is on white man's fire-boat, what you call steamboat, only he is on boat maybe twenty times bigger than steamboat on Yukon.”

  THE WHITE MAN'S WAY

• “Yet on the salt lake had he seen the fire-boat of iron that did not sink," cried out Zilla the irrepressible.”

  THE WHITE MAN'S WAY

• “He put that in a boat named the Pyroscaphe (from the Greek for fire-boat).”

  Wired: July 15, 1783: Marquis Invents Steamboat, Misses Esteem Boat

• “Do you know where the 'fire-boat' had been?" he asked.”

  Jack Haydon's Quest

• “When I am at Prome two weeks ago, the 'fire-boat' of U Saw pass me, and go up the river.”

  Jack Haydon's Quest

• “He compared the "fire-boat" with the size of his _hnau_, he compared it with a river-steamer which now went puffing past, he described it with the greatest minuteness, for he had lain beside it at Bhamo for three days on the trip before last.”

  Jack Haydon's Quest

• “There's no fire-boat up here -- there ought to be!”

  The outdoor girls at Rainbow Lake: or, the Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem

• “Early in the morning, we entered the Southwest Pass, crossed the Bar, and passed the sunken wreck of the fire-boat which the rebels had set adrift, in hopes thereby to fire Farragut's fleet.”

  The Romance of the Civil War

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