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The captain shouted, now: "Call the mate. Tell him to call all hands and get a lot of that sugar forrard put her ten inches by the head. Lively, now!" "Aye-aye, sir." A riot of shouting and trampling floated up from below, presently, and the uneasy steering of the boat soon showed that she was getting "down by the head."
"Follows a pair of ruts, hoping to find civilization at the other end." Rick grinned. "He certainly likes this part of Virginia. There's one thing about peddling Frostola here " "What's that?" "No customers to bother you. It's easy to commune with Nature." "Aye-aye. Does he look like a nature lover to you?" "Now that you mention it, I've seen people who fitted the part better.
"Overhaul your clew-lines!" shouts the mate. "Aye-aye, sir, all clear!" "Taut leech! belay! Well the lee brace; haul taut to windward!" and the royals are set. What would the captain of any sailing-vessel of our time say to that? He would say, "The man that wrote that didn't learn his trade out of a book, he has BEEN there!"
Aye-aye! yi-yi-yi-yi!" the jackal wailed, the note rising to a fiendish crescendo; and then suddenly it hushed and there was only a ghastly silence in the jungle depths. The white-clothed, ghost-like priest sprang to his feet, and with his lean left arm stretched high in suppliance, said: "Bhowanee, thou hast vouchsafed to thy devotees the pilsao.
"Shake out that maintogalans'l! Sheets and braces! NOW my hearties!" "Aye-aye, sir!" "Hellum-a-lee hard a port! Stand by to meet her when she comes! Port, port! NOW, men! With a will! Stead-y-y-y!" "Steady it is, sir!" The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.
On the other hand the readiness with which the inhabitants of Aye-Aye and the other Carib islands gave asylum to the fugitive Boriquén Indians and joined them in their retaliatory expeditions, also points to the existence of some bond of kinship between them, so that there is ground for the opinion entertained by some writers that all the inhabitants of all the Antilles were of the race designated under the generic name of Caribs.
'Aye-aye, sir! 'Seven-and-a-half! Seven feet! Six-and We touched bottom! Instantly Mr. Bixby set a lot of bells ringing, shouted through the tube, 'NOW, let her have it every ounce you've got! then to his partner, 'Put her hard down! snatch her! snatch her! The boat rasped and ground her way through the sand, hung upon the apex of disaster a single tremendous instant, and then over she went!
Two foot large, on the stabboard, two and a half scant on the labboard!" "Let her go off another point!" "Aye-aye, sir!" "Forward, men, all of you! Lively, now! Stand by to crowd her round the weather corner!" "Aye-aye, sir!"
They don't know where they've been, and they don't know what they've been doing." Smitty grinned. "Aye-aye, sir. That won't be hard. None of us really know where we've been or what we've been doing." "Life is easier that way," Steve said. "Shove off, now." "Aye-aye, sir." The guardsman faded off into the night. "Let's move furniture," Steve suggested.
"The funny fellow grows serious once in a while," chuckled Dick, "but I think he is right for all that." "I think we had better be going myself," said Jack. "Ben Bowline?" "Sir to you, sir," said the seaman. "Steer south, and go on a free wind at four miles." "Aye-aye, sir!" said Ben, and they all set out for home, as they called the yacht.
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