Shallop

The sky was blossoming into stars above the afterglow; out to the east the moon was rising, and the sea beneath it was a thing of radiance and silver and glamour; and a little harbour boat that went sailing across it was transmuted into an elfin shallop from the coast of fairyland. ❋ Lucy Maud (1912)

The shallop was a serviceable vessel, and ran bravely before the wind on the calm sea. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The shallop was a long time getting clear of the point, having to row, but at last got up her sails and out of the harbor. ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

Aspinet himself; while the first red man allowed to come on board the shallop was the owner of the corn "borrowed" by the Pilgrims, who now repaid its value twofold by an order for goods to be delivered at ❋ Unknown (1862)

The commander of the shallop was the savage named Ouagimou, who was on terms of friendship with Bessabez, chief of the river Norumbegue, of whom he asked the body of Panounias, [243] who had been killed. ❋ Samuel De Champlain (1601)

For these infractions the mutineers put Hudson, his seventeen-year old son, and seven others loyal to the captain on a small boat (known as a shallop) and set them adrift. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Had not God saved us,” he wrote, “we should all have been lost, as happened before our eyes to a shallop of Saint-Malo on its way to the island of Orléans.” ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

They were larger than a shallop and smaller than an ocean-going navire. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

He took a shallop and raced up the St. Lawrence River with all sail set. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

In the summer another six or eight had returned from the farm on Cap Tourmente, and eleven arrived in the shallop that so displeased Champlain. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

The wind was so violent that the shallop was dismasted—another desperate moment that brought him near death. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

While the French and the English squadrons were meeting in battle, the small French shallop got past the enemy force, and hugged the riverbank in a patch of fog. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

They also sent a small shallop ahead, with ten men under the command of junior officer Thierry Desdames. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Other Iroquois tried to board the shallop from their war canoes. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

On June 15, Thierry Desdames took the shallop downriver to Gaspé, met Juan Chou, a captain of the Canadien Indians, who “did their best to welcome them” and promised that “in case our ships did not arrive, we would want nothing that their hunting could provide.” ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Champlain retained only a small shallop at Quebec. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

He immediately ordered a shallop to be prepared, in which he embarked and arrived the same day at Sainte-Croix. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

The next day the French saw a small shallop on the river, moving toward the houses of the Jesuit fathers at St. Charles, near Quebec. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Champlain wrote: On June 20, a shallop arrived from Sainte-Croix which gave us news of the arrival of forty canoes, which were the Bésérévis [his name for the Nipissing], and with them a French interpreter whom the Sieur de Caën had sent the previous year [1632] to encourage the Indians to come for trade, and he asked the sieur de Champlain to come quickly to Sainte-Croix, desiring to see him. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

The current was strong and several men went ashore to tow the shallop along the bank. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)