I doubt if we made ten miles in the entire three days.
Upon my word we have not made more than a hundred miles the hour since leaving home!
In a good day, a traveler could make 20 miles.
On 31 July, during the trip, she made 374 miles in 3 days.
But the current ran very strong against us, and at the best we were not able to make more than twenty miles a day.
We made only four miles today, still in the wrong direction.
They could not be certain that it would continue to make only three or four miles a day.
If we made ten miles a day we'd be lucky.
"I doubt if we're making five miles a day in an air line."
The kind where you make maybe two miles a day, cutting your way.