raftsman

He was elected, not because he was a raftsman, but because the Democrats of that day outnumbered the Whigs.

However, Antonio proved a most expert raftsman, being almost amphibious and smart as any eel.

He had been a raftsman, and was reputed to be the most daring of those little-known watermen at flood-times and in the early thaw.

Then he fired up, mad-like, and talked about the grey mare of hisn being able to pull a oar as good as any raftsman.

Both of the men were inexperienced, one being a raftsman who came down the river, and the other a man from Vicksburg.