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None the less, Alex was something of a general in work of this sort, and when they had gained an inch of progress he usually managed to hold it by means of snubbing the boat's line around the nearest stump or rock. "That's awfully strong line, isn't it?" said Rob. "You brought that over with you we didn't have that in our country. We use rope.
At length the sensation of sudden stopping dizzied us momentarily. We thrust out an oar and felt a slowly sloping bar. Driving the oar half-way into the soft sand, we wrapped the boat's chain about it and went to bed, flinging the tarp over us. A raw dawn wind sprinkled a cheerless morning over us, and we got up with our joints grinding rustily.
Brooke's return, Takua and Dikea were furbishing up old guns which some incautious person on board the "Curacoa" had given them, and they were disappointed to find that there could be no attack on the vessel. She, however, was scarcely gone before, at the other end of the island, Vara, four out of five men were killed by a boat's crew. The survivor, Sorova, told Mr.
It is comparatively easy to be free from envy if one is what George Taylor termed a "never-was"; for a "has been" it is harder. The boat's name was the only portion of my remark which attracted her attention. "The Comfort?" she repeated. "That is a jolly name for a pleasure boat." "It is my mother's name," I answered. "Is it? Why, I remember now. Miss Dean told me. I beg your pardon, Mr. Paine.
Far ahead from the boat's prow could be seen the yellow streak of the sandy shore, while from the stern there stretched away into the distance the free, gambolling sea, all furrowed over with racing flocks of billows, decked here and there with a narrow fringe of foam.
For six hours they remained at anchor a little from the shore, thus exposed to the fury of the gale. The crew became sea-sick and unable to keep the boat's head to the sea, while some of their party who had remained on shore watched them, the natives every moment exclaiming: "They are lost! they are all dead!"
"You will be better after this." "Me not seasick, massa; de sea have nuffin to do with it. It's de boat dat will jump up and down instead of going quiet." "It's all the same thing, Dan; and I hope she won't jump about more before we get into the river." But in another half hour Vincent had to bring the boat's head up to the wind, lower the lug, and tie down the last reef.
The mate, realising the situation, rushed to seize him, but the engineer, with a mad laugh, put his hands on the side and vaulted into the water. When he rose the steamer was twenty yards ahead. "Go astarn!" yelled the mate. "How can I go astarn when there's nobody at the engines?" shouted the skipper, as he hung on to the wheel and brought the boat's head sharply round. "Git a line ready."
I could tell, however, that the tide was strongly in my favour, and I believe I should have escaped the boat's notice, but that the people on shore, hearing, I suppose, the rifle-shots, turned on an electric search-light to see what was going forward.
The strange light of which I have spoken, and which had seemed to emanate from the clouds, had now vanished, giving place to a darkness so profound that it seemed to oppress us like some material substance; and the silence was as profound and oppressive as the darkness so profound, indeed, was it that any accidental sound which happened to break in upon it, such as the occasional lap of the water against the boat's planking, the scuffling movement of a man, or the intermittent flap of the sail as the longboat stirred upon a wandering ridge of slow-moving swell, smote upon the ear with an exaggerated distinctness that was positively startling to an almost painful degree.
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