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He further asserted that he would knock the stuffing out of me, and we were on hostile terms for twenty-four hours. Two days later he got a job as bo'sun in a barque and his mate shipped with him, and peace was assured for a time. The food they gave us was rough but fairly good and plentiful. Wherever the meat came from it could be masticated with some effort.
Before either had time to take aim, a second ripple was observed in the water running diagonally to that made by the swimmer and at the head of this ripple, and causing it, was seen a long dark, monster-like form. "A crocodile! a crocodile!" shouted the men upon the barque. Both captain and mate held their fire, and lowered their muskets.
Our skipper wanted some pump-leather; he wanted some white sugar. 'Come aboard, he said, 'and have dinner with me. I'll give you a barrel of 'Frisco potatoes to take back. We lowered our whale-boat, and, taking two hands, I pulled alongside the barque.
On the other hand, once the initial difficulties have been overcome, it is not difficult to get your barque into the currents of prosperity.
It hovers above every barque and brig and steamer, it speaks of a Jesus risen, a grave conquered, a heaven open. It is the same old Sabbath that blessed our early days. It is tropical in its luxuriance, but all its leaves are prayers, and all its blossoms praise. Sabbath on the sea! How solemn! How suggestive! Let all its hours, on deck, in cabin, in forecastle, be sacred.
Launched on the mighty and unknown river, in a rudely built barque, it is a marvel that the voyagers escaped shipwreck in the descent of that vast stream, the navigation being too difficult and perilous, as we are told by Condamine, who descended it in 1743, to be undertaken without the aid of a skilful pilot. Yet the daring Spaniards accomplished it safely.
"We had managed to find one oar and the jolly-boat's lug sail, and this we rigged up as much by way of a signal as anything else, for of course we could do nothing but drive dead before the wind. And we hadn't left the barque above ten minutes when down she went, stern foremost, and there we were left adrift and as helpless as a lot of babies in that raging sea.
Yours with my heart, body and life to command, The relation of the course which the "Sunshine," a barque of fifty tons, and the "North Star," a small pinnace, being two vessels of the fleet of Master John Davis, held after he had sent them from him to discover the passage between Greenland and Iceland. Written by Henry Morgan, servant to Master William Sanderson of London.
"Better and better still," I said, in high glee, in which Sam Pengelly shared with a kindred feeling, while his sister put up her apron to her eyes, and began to cry at the idea of my going to sea. "Is she a large vessel?" "Aye, aye, my cockbird. A barque of a thousand tons, or more, and her name's the Esmeralda."
Then following the clew that, in the hands of the Abbe Faria, had been so skilfully used to guide him through the Daedalian labyrinth of probabilities, he thought that the Cardinal Spada, anxious not to be watched, had entered the creek, concealed his little barque, followed the line marked by the notches in the rock, and at the end of it had buried his treasure.
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