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We'll lay 'round here till mornin' and then set a signal. Something'll come along pretty soon. Sure 'nough, 'long come a coaler bound for Charleston. She see us a-wallowin' in the trough and our mast thrashin' for all it was worth. "'What d'ye want? the skipper says, when he got within hail.
Of course there's always the faint possibility that they're waiting for some other ship to join; or for a coaler." "I suppose we may as well stay right here." The hour passed and they lay there side by side, very silently, their chins in their hands like dreaming children.
Away in the direction of their looks I dimly see the outline of the pilgrim ship, a Cardiff coaler, which has brought close on a thousand Hájes from Port Saïd or Alexandria men chiefly, but among them wives and children who have paid that toilsome pilgrimage to Mekka.
"When I was a boy." "What kin ye do?" "I'm a good derrick man and been four years with a coaler." "You want steady work, I suppose." The stranger nodded. "Well, I ain't got it. Gov'ment app'ints our men. This is a Life-Saving Station." The stranger stood twisting his cap. The first statement seemed to make but little impression on him; the second aroused a keener interest. "Yes, I know.
Luckily we were picked up toward evening by an English coaler which sighted us." Then a tall man of sunburned face and grave demeanor, one of those men who have evidently traveled unknown and far-away lands, whose calm eye seems to preserve in its depths something of the foreign scenes it has observed, a man that you are sure is impregnated with courage, spoke for the first time.
No omnibus-driver threading the confusion of a great thoroughfare could shape his course with greater assurance and lack of hesitation than does B. through these endless avenues of heavy-foliaged pines, broken only now and then by some tangled, impenetrable brake of cedars, or by a charred and blackened clearing, where the coaler has been at work.
Whether he ran away, or had served his master so well that the latter willingly remitted the three years' articles of apprenticeship, Cook now followed his destiny to the sea. According to the world's standards, the change seemed progress backward. He was articled to a ship-owner of Whitby as a common seaman on a coaler sailing between Newcastle and London.
Dalrymple, the chief hydrographer of the Admiralty, who had chief claims to the command, was also somewhat of a faddist, and Cook was selected almost as a dernier ressort. The choice proved an excellent one. He selected a coasting coaler named the Endeavour, of 360 tons, because her breadth of beam would enable her to carry more stores and to run near coasts.
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