sentences:  Rodman is accompanied on his expedition by Pierre, Alexander Wormley, Toby, a Virginian, Andrew Thornton, and the Greely brothers, John, Robert, Meredith, Frank, and Poindexter.The party is described as "mere travellers for pleasure", abandoning commercial or pecuniary motives.They traveled by canoe and by a thirty foot long keelboat which was bulletproof.