1.   At that time thousands of Cubans on makeshift rafts were heading for Florida.

2.   Cuba and the United States reached an agreement Friday under which Havana pledged to stop its citizens from fleeing the country for Florida aboard makeshift rafts and small boats.

3.   In a second incident, a group of prisoners working in the raincoat department sewed together a makeshift raft.

4.   Miles from civilization in the Peruvian jungle, the two hikers had settled into sleep on their makeshift raft when noise in the distance awakened them.

5.   Others left on makeshift rafts.

6.   Survivors had assembled two makeshift rafts and headed for shore.

7.   The waves dumped water on makeshift rafts and made the seaborne rescue harder than it had been in recent days.

8.   They crowd makeshift rafts and paddle across the Elbe River so they can surrender to the Americans.

9.   Those people who flee Cuba will continue to do so in makeshift rafts and unseaworthy boats.

10.   Two months later, he fled Cuba in a makeshift raft, seeking freedom and baseball.