1·By the time we had gone seven or eight hundred miles up the river, I had learned to be a tolerably plucky up-stream steersman, in daylight, and before we reached st.
当我船向上游行驶了七八百海里的时候,我已经在白天学习了如何当一个颇为大胆的逆流舵手。
2·There was no better paddler , no better steersman than my brother.