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"I may be, but I don't think so," said O'Donnell to that. "You're inside and you know it." "You're a liar if you say I know it." O'Donnell had had trouble with the Lynx before, and had small patience with her captain. More words came out of it, and while they were talking back and forth another of the fleet a mile to the east'ard put out a boat.
"Scarcely, for Greenland lies far to the east'ard, and the latest discoveries made on the north of that land show that the coast turns still more decidedly east tending to the conclusion that Greenland is an island. This land, therefore, must be entirely new land an island a continent perhaps." "But it may be a cape, father," interposed Benjy.
The sea's come on very coarse, and the young Squire's boat's gettin' badly used out there, about a mile to the east'ard." "Who's in her?" "The young Squire and his lass." "I'll be out directly. Has he ever made the landin' before?" "Yes, but Tom's Harry was always with him." When Casely stepped to the cliff edge, he saw that matters were a little awkward.
It was during the flickering of one of these somewhat prolonged gleams that the lookout on the forecastle-head reported: "A small sail, three points on the weather-bow, headin' to the east'ard, close under the land."
We can't chase them as far to the east'ard as the big banks a three hundred mile run to the nearest edge of it and tens of thousands of square miles to hunt over after we'd got there. And it would be child's work anyway to ask Maurice to leave her on the bank. Who'd take his place even if Dave would stand for it? 'Twould mean laying up a dory or taking his dory-mate too.
"She won't get out o' that this night," said John Bowden, alluding to the yawl, as he stood on the top of the "solid" where his comrades were busy working, "the wind's gettin' up from the east'ard." "If she don't," replied one of the men, "we'll have to sleep where we are."
It was indeed wonderful to see what consciousness and sympathy they endowed her with. "Elizabeth is behaving well," the captain said one morning, as he watched her swelling canvas and noted her speed. "There isn't much sea on," answered David; "hardly more than what we used to call in Shetland 'a northerly lipper. But yet I don't like the look to the east'ard and the nor'ard."
Soon the snow was so thick that it shut us in as with a curtain, and eventually even old Aillik, our leader, was lost to view. "Bear well t' th' east'ard, an' keep free o' th' bad ice; the's sure t' be bad ice handy t' th' Kenemish," had been Mark Blake's parting injunction. So George kept well to the eastward as, hour after hour, we forged our way on through the bending, drifting snow.
"Loud and clear you'd holler, because the wind might be high." "Loud and clear, yes 'Let go your wind'ard dory! like that. And 'Set to the west'ard, or the east'ard, whatever it was according to the tide, you know.
"I thought as day were never going to break ag'in; but at last I sees it light up a bit away to the east'ard, and it got grad'ally brighter and brighter; and presently I sees the sun just showin' above the horizon. "Then I felt a little bit more cheerful and satisfied like, for I knowed you'd soon be stirring, and I should have you back on the look-out for me.
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