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"The sooner we get ashore with these people the better, and let them have a change of duds," said the old pilot. "But I do not like leaving, while there are any people remaining on board." "Oh, pray wait," said one of the young ladies. "There is a poor woman and her child and several other people, besides the captain and crew, who, I suppose, do not require so much help."
At midnight, though the woods still smoldered, the boys contemplated leaving the shallows in which they had been standing and going ashore, for they argued that if the heat from the embers was not too intense they could work along the margin of the lake until they reached the opposite shore. But while they were contemplating this, off across the lake they saw lights advancing toward them.
You've seen worse things than this, haven't you?" "Bet your life, Wood," and Jim whispered to one of the boys, 'Wood can prove anything by me. "I let the 500 lay on a copper and I won. From that time on I made no bet for less than half a thousand. At one time I had the dealer pretty close to the bank but I didn't quite put him ashore.
"The passengers are hauled up and down in a big barrel," says the Captain, who has come from the bridge to receive some official from the settlement. "You're not going ashore, Mrs. Steele!" He fixes a look of astonishment on my friend in her travelling dress. "Of course I am." "Why, there's nothing to see but huts and sand-piles."
A quarter of a mile below there was smoother water, and soon the canoes were ashore, and Perrot, Sainte-Helene, and others were running to the rescue. They arrived just in time. Ropes were let down, and the lad was drawn up insensible. Then came the priest, for Iberville, battered as he was, would not stir until the abbe had gone up a stout strain on the rope.
I thought as how, if I went ashore, sir, I might get a couple of eggs for Mr. Donovan's breakfast. He likes a fresh egg." "Seagulls' eggs," said Phillips. Smith looked up quickly. For an instant there was a sharp gleam of suspicion in his eyes. Then he dropped them again. "No, sir; hens' eggs. There's hens on the island, sir." "Got any?" said Phillips. "Two, sir, only two."
The spot where he ran his boat ashore was at the foot of a steep cliff, up which he and a comrade ascended with some difficulty. At the top, to his surprise, he found a lad lying on the grass sound asleep. After contemplating him for a few minutes, and whispering a few words to his comrade, who indulged in a broad grin, Hauskuld drew his sword and pricked Alric on the shoulder with it.
"He's black I don't mean that he's a negro, but he's one of these fellows with a blue-black beard that never can be shaved clean because it shows black under the skin. Then he's got a shifty eye and a sneaky look about him. Then, too," he added with a smile, "he's got a smashed nose where my fist landed when he put me ashore here. I certainly handed him a beauty that time!"
It's the captain who puts the ship ashore; it's we who get her off. It seems to me that no man born and truthful to himself could declare that he ever saw the sea looking young as the earth looks young in spring. But some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze.
We were not within sight of this Town, but I was shewn the Hills that over-looked it, and drew a draft of them as we lay off at Sea; which I have caused to be engraven among a few others that I took my self:.... The prisoners are set ashore on the island of Luzon, and that island is left February 26. At this island the ship is careened and refitted.
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