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The station at which the ships were now lying, and which is the westernmost point to which the navigation of the Polar Sea to the northward of the American Continent has yet been carried, is in latitude 74° 26' 25", and longitude, by chronometer, 113° 46' 43.5".
But on second thoughts he looked closely to his pistol and placed it beneath his pillow. Then he shot the bolt of his door and was satisfied that all proper precautions had been taken. "Just a little peep at dainty Miss Mission, to say night-night," he smiled, unfastening the catch on the chronometer case. "Then I'll sleep on the dirty knife business."
Budd should mistake "setting the watch" for "setting our watches," was not so very violent a blunder that one ought to be much astonished at it in her; but that she should expect to find a chronometer that was intended to keep the time of Greenwich, agreeing with a watch that was set for the time of New York, betrayed a degree of ignorance that the handsome mate was afraid Rose would resent on him, when the mistake was made to appear.
So! the sly fellow has been angling for the chronometer all this time, and I can get nothing out of him until he has got it the road to the lake, the road to Gani, everything seemed risked on his getting my watch a chronometer worth L50, which would be spoilt in his hands in one day.
I ought to have said that the captain had taken the sextant, chronometer, and charts with him, and that in their mad outbreak the emigrants had destroyed the binnacle and the compasses in it, so that we had the Mary's light alone to depend on. Mr Bell had divided those who remained of the crew, and some of the emigrants willing to exert themselves, into two watches.
With an expression of surprise I turned and looked at Perry it was broad daylight without! "Something seems to have gone wrong either with our calculations or the chronometer," I said. Perry shook his head there was a strange expression in his eyes. "Let's have a look beyond that door, David," he cried.
The bottle was passed, every eye watching it with the greatest interest. "No, never mind the corkscrew, Todd, I'll pick it out," remarked the major, examining the hazardous cork with the care of a watchmaker handling a broken-down chronometer. "You're right, St. George it's too far gone. Don't watch me, Seymour, or I'll get nervous.
The boat-swain's mate got the hose along aft to wash down at half-past five; by-and-by he knocks off and runs up on the bridge 'Will you please come aft, Mr. Jones, he says. 'There's a funny thing. I don't like to touch it. It was Captain Brierly's gold chronometer watch carefully hung under the rail by its chain. "As soon as my eyes fell on it something struck me, and I knew, sir.
But he loved to see the clock-maker come to the cottage, who had never shown partiality for any woman, while popular with all. "'Minuit, he used to say, 'the best man on watch by land or sea, thou North Star; look to my girl as to my chronometer, and I'll pay thee twice the cost of thy time!
"I never believed in the stories myself, but Harris did; and now I am sure that he is right. Two years ago a ship left Singapore for Bombay, and never was heard from until her chronometer turned up in Swatow or somewhere. A Portuguese Jew had them in a pawnshop, and he said he bought them from a chink for seven Mex dollars.
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