land.

"There are the Blakes!" suddenly exclaimed Belle. "See, they are
waving to us."

"Yes," answered Cora as she snatched off her cap and fluttered a
response to the folks on the steamer. "Bess, keep clear out. The
landing is just over there! The steamer makes quite a swell."

Bess turned, but she did it too suddenly. A wave from the steamer
caught them broadside, and drenched the girls before they knew what
had happened.

"Oh!" screamed Belle, "--we are running right into the steamer!"

"Bess! Bess!" called Cora. "Turn! I can't connect--"

Shouts from the steamer added to their confusion. Would they be run
down on this, their very first attempt at navigation?

"They are the motor girls!" Cora heard some one on the steamer
shout, and while this much has been told it may be well to acquaint
the reader with further details of the situation. The Motor Girls
were friends whom we have met in the four previous volumes of this
series entitled respectively: "The Motor Girls," "The Motor Girls on
a Tour," "The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach," and "The Motor Girls
Through New England." In each of these volumes we have met Cora
Kimball, the handsome, dashing girl who conquers everything within
reason, but who, herself, is occasionally conquered, both in the
field of sports and in the field of human endeavors. It was she who