A typical Congolese peasant cannot afford the boat fare to Kinshasa, let alone Belgium.
In 1947, she arrived in New York, her boat fare paid by distant relatives who found her name on a survivors' list and invited her to stay with them.
But a short flight away indigenous communities living amid fearsome overcrowding on the tropical islands of Guna Yala (formerly San Blas) are so poor and malnourished that their young children can die for lack of a boat fare to get to the nearest health clinic.
Jefferson believed slaves be given boat fare to take them back to their homelands.
I wasn't asked for any documents to get into these boats, and the only cost was the boat fare," he said.
"I didn't even know how much the boat fare was," he said, "so I handed the driver, who didn't speak any English, a few Brazilian reals, and he was OK with it".
Greek and Roman literary sources from the 5th century BC through the 2nd century AD are consistent in attributing four characteristics to Charon's obol: it is a single, low-denomination coin; it is placed in the mouth; the placement occurs at the time of death; it represents a boat fare.
From the 6th to the 4th centuries BC in the Black Sea region, low-value coins depicting arrowheads or dolphins were in use mainly for the purpose of "local exchange and to serve as 'Charon's obol.'" The payment is sometimes specified with a term for "boat fare" (in Greek naulon, ναῦλον, Latin naulum); "fee for ferrying" (porthmeion, πορθμήϊον or πορθμεῖον); or "waterway toll" (Latin portorium).
The Sinhalese aboard the boat haven't fared any better.
Paralleling the lake, the road then uses the Keller Ferry, a 80 feet long boat used as a fare-free ferry across Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, part of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, operated by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and its previous counterparts since 1930.
