Then he found himself swaying unsteadily down a flight of steps and calling to the men behind not to hustle and precipitate him into one or other of the two longboats that lay below.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
About the middle of the seventeenth century certain French adventurers set out from the fortified island of St. Christopher in longboats and hoys, directing their course to the westward, there to discover new islands.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle
The sound of the tide lapping against the beach as the two longboats neared the shore beneath the breastwork brought his attention back.
"Caribbee"
Thomas Hoover