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Shouting their war-cry, they rushed on the Kabyles, supported by the Volunteers of the Chart, or French Zouaves, thundering forth the Marseillaise; turning the pursuers into pursued, they covered the retreat of their associates to the farm of Mouzaia, where the army rallied and proceeded without further loss to Algiers.
We both of us looked at the saloon clock on the instant, sure, an' saw the toime, sor." "That is the last mark on the chart, then?" said the old skipper meaningly, pencil and compass in hand, and still bending over the tell- tale track map spread out on the wheel-house table. "Since that, nobody knows how we've drifted!"
These they knew, by consulting their chart, were the Gallapagos, the home of the largest land-turtles ever known, monsters so enormous that one of them could walk off with two half-grown boys on his broad back. There are over two thousand volcano cones in these islands, and soon our friends were almost in the midst of them.
The projected cruise was being discussed in the midshipmen's berth, with the chart on the table. "It doesn't look so very far," observed Billy Blueblazes; "though, considering that we are to perform the distance under sail, it will take us some time, I suppose."
Our first day's run, therefore, will be what we get over from the Lizard up to the time the cap'en takes the sun at noon to-morrow, which will tell us our latitude and longitude then, when, by the aid of this fixed starting-point or `point of departure, and calculating our dead reckoning and courses steered, we will be enabled to know our precise position on the chart."
"We shall go within half a mile of them," he said, when he joined his comrade. "It is lucky that we looked at the chart as soon as we did," Wilkinson shouted back, "for even with this rag of sail I should not have liked to bring her nearer to the wind than we are now." "I don't think it is blowing quite as hard as it was," Edgar said. "I certainly got down more easily than I went up."
You won't have any night until Dasor swings outside the orbit of your sun, and until then Six will be invisible, even to our most powerful telescope." "I do not know, myself," answered Carfon, "but I will send out a call for the chief astronomer. He will meet us, and give you a chart and the exact course."
We have been as those who set out to sea without a chart; as soldiers who fight a campaign without a map. I do not think this is too much to say of the way in which a large number of the men and women that I know even those of this generation have been expected to tackle one of the greatest problems that the human race has to solve. May I sketch what I imagine is the experience of most people?
'9 A.M. We have reached the splice supposed to be faulty, and no fault has been found. The two men learned in electricity, L- and W-, squabble where the fault is. 'EVENING. A weary day in a hot broiling sun; no air. After the experiments, L- said the fault might be ten miles ahead: by that time, we should be according to a chart in about a thousand fathoms of water rather more than a mile.
Then head straight for Nassau; but, about eight o'clock, or anywhere around twilight, turn about and head well, we'll map it out on the chart at home anywhere up to eight miles along the coast, till you come to a light, low down right on the edge of the water. As soon as you see it, drop anchor; then wait till morning the very beginning of dawn.
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