The three or four oarsmen, when they see us, run about over the round logs and give a pull here and a pull there at long oars, and try to get the unwieldy length up and down stream; they wear only a waist cloth, and look so sun-bitten; there is but one tiny patch of shadow in the middle of their island under a lean-to cottage of matting, with a Burgee on a tall bamboo flying over it.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Each has its respective signal flag or Burgee.
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston
She had steamed back, early this morning, not merely without fear, but proudly, her whistle screaming for the lime-light, her fore-truck flying, so to say, the Burgee of vindication; and the stoutish and inimical young man had come aboard for breakfast with his new employer at nine o'clock sharp.
"Captivating Mary Carstairs"
Henry Sydnor Harrison