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I'm going to sleep." So saying, he flung himself upon the skylight, and in a few minutes was snoring in a drunken slumber. Rawlings sauntered up on deck a few minutes later, and stood watching the progress of the brig through the calm and glassy water, for Barry had lowered one of the boats, and the crew were towing her clear of the outlying horn of the reef.
He called the enemy a corvette, not specifying whether she was brig or ship corvette; and the whole was written in such a bombastic style, that any one would have imagined that he had found a vessel of superior force. He stated, at the end, that as soon as he repaired damages, he wore round, but that the enemy declined further action.
The carpenter, with three or four assistants, had patched up the second cutter the boat that had been least injured. The others had been broken up for firewood, some of the pieces being reserved for the repairs of the cutter. As soon as the brig reached the mouth of the stream she was anchored, two hundred yards off the shore.
In half an hour the wind shifted a few points, but the stream of the loose ice did not change. The brig was, therefore, blown right in among the rushing masses. The three cables that held her were snapped as if they had been pieces of packthread, and she was whirled out into the pack, where she drove helplessly, exposed to the fury of the howling storm and the dangers of the grinding ice.
"What brig is that, Mr Saltwell?" asked the captain, as he came on deck, his countenance expressing very different emotions from any which had appeared there for many a long day. "She carries the Greek colours, sir, and we make her out to be our old friend the Ypsilante. I think she can be no other," was the answer.
He had in his store about half a cord of walrus teeth piled against a back entrance like stove wood. Phillipeus was a roving blade. He kept an agent at Petropavlovsk and came there in person once a year. In February he left St. Petersburg for London, whence he took the Red Sea route to Japan. There he chartered a brig to visit Kamchatka and land him at Ayan, on the Ohotsk Sea.
Night was rapidly coming on, my prospects were far from pleasant, and somewhat limited too, as I could only just make out the tumbling seas on either side of me. I felt pretty certain that the frigate would come back to look after the brig; but scarcely hoped that such a speck as I was would be seen. Still I determined to keep up my spirits, and to hang on to the oars as long as I could.
Aided by the long levers afforded by the spars, the work advanced so rapidly, that, in just one hour's time after his people had begun to heave, Spike had the pleasure to see the schooner standing upright, alongside of his own brig, though still sunk to the bottom.
Should they go, the brig, deprived of her after-sail, would be unable to weather the southern end of the reef. On and on we flew. A few minutes would decide our fate.
The partitions which enclosed it were composed of upright planks, eight inches in width, with spaces between them for the admission of light and air. The brig had been used as a store room for bedding by the stewards, and the students never suspected, till Shuffles' case came up, that it was not built for a closet. Mr.