The only other sound was the chuckling of the river against the driving hull of the rickety boat.

In minutes Billy was rowing a rickety boat toward one of many ships anchored off the dock.

Many have crossed the Mediterranean in rickety boats to make about $25 a day.

"I've got to ask, Iris, what made you go out in a rickety boat like that in the first place?"

Sanming's next stop is a rickety boat owned by his wife's elder brother.

One hundred twenty-five thousand people came here in rickety boats to make a new life.

Mr. Chung's family was among those who took to the rickety boats.

Ashore, a group of villagers wait for a rickety boat to take them to the United States.

But here the motivation driving people to leave on rickety boats for Florida seems more complex than economics alone.

They passed a rickety boat laden with green bananas, and two small boys waved.