What is "boates"

Usage examples of "boates".

The Gales were cruel all along that Coast, and we were oft in grave Peril: but after much trauail we reached Hatarask, where the Captaine sent a party in small Boates, to search out the passage betweene the Islands.

And whilst we were thus employ’d, a sudden greate Wind arose and scattered the Boates, many being o’erturned and the Mariners drowned.

What pleasure can be more, he exclaims, when men are tired of planting vines and fruits and ordering gardens, orchards and building to their mind, than "to recreate themselves before their owne doore, in their owne boates upon the Sea, where man, woman and child, with a small hooke and line, by angling, may take divers sorts of excellent fish at their pleasures?

To Ginny, with love Acknowledgements I would like to thank Tony Gleason for insights into military law, Reid Boates and Nick Ellison for their editorial suggestions, Sgt First Class Susan Rueger for her assistance at Fort Hamilton, and Kathy Haley, night typist.