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Faster than when shot out of Professor Henderson's catapult the Snowbird winged her way into the northwest. Jack managed to keep her on an even keel. But he had the same feeling that he would have had, had he been hanging to the bit of a runaway horse. Indeed, the Snowbird was practically out of his control.
Meanwhile a regular fraternisation had gone on between the crews, and after a mere glance at the three masts of the schooner, which were standing out of the water about a couple of hundred yards away, the skipper's whole attention was directed to their own vessel, whose keel was now fast in the mud, and which was beginning to heel over slightly.
"You said it!" was Ned's whispered rejoinder. Tom Swift arrived at a sudden determination. Once again the motors were stopped, and the boat gradually assumed an even keel. "What are you going to try, Tom?" asked Ned. "I'm going to shove her farther into the mud bank," announced the young inventor. "I think that's the only way to get her loose." "Bless my apple pie, Tom!" cried Mr.
She was fitted with a keel nine inches deep amidships, tapering off to four inches deep at each end; was rigged as a schooner, with standing fore and main lug and a small jib, and, with her ordinary crew on board and sitting to windward, required no ballast even in a fresh breeze.
On January 17 the carpenters began to dig the foundations of the house. The effect of all we had heard about the Antarctic storms was that we decided to take every possible precaution to make the house stand on an even keel. The carpenters therefore began by digging a foundation 4 feet down into the Barrier.
Twelve hundred men are working at her now; twelve hundred men working on stages over her sides, over her bows, over her stern, under her keel, between her decks, down in her hold, within her and without, crawling and creeping into the finest curves of her lines wherever it is possible for men to twist.
Better you dress light an' buckle up dat belt, for I got reason to fin' out who keel Courteau. I ain't goin' sleep no more till I know." The officer smiled as he declared: "That suits me exactly. We may not catch them, but they'll know they've been in a race before they thumb their noses at us from across the Boundary. Now see how fast you can harness up."
"I don't think it will be much use, but there's no harm trying." The poking was a total failure, and Priscilla, reaching far out to thrust the oar well under the keel of the boat, very nearly fell overboard. Frank caught her by the skirt at the last moment and hauled her back. "We'll have to sit down and think again," she said.
The crew in this case were fortunately near the shore, had on their lifebelts, and, although some of them could not swim, were all saved no thanks, however, to their boat, which remained keel up but three unfortunate gentlemen who had been permitted to go off in the boat without lifebelts, and one of whom was a good swimmer, lost their lives.
The very hours of the day, slipping westward under the keel of an east-going ship, are "made" by rigid decree; the captain takes his observation of sun or stars, and announces the position of the ship to be at a certain spot on the surface of the globe; any errors of judgment or deficiencies of method are covered by the words "make it so."
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