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When I came to my raft, I brought my effects on shore, which work spent that day entirely; and fearing that some cruel beasts might devour me in the night time while I slept, I made a kind of hut or barricade with the chests and boards I had brought onshore.
Onshore, we had the sail spread so as to shelter us against the wind and dew. One morning I awoke about daylight, and looked out to see if our sailor-boy was at work getting breakfast; but he was not at the fire at all. Getting up, I discovered that he had converted a tule-bolsa into a sail boat, and was sailing for the gold-mines.
Onshore, we had the sail spread so as to shelter us against the wind and dew. One morning I awoke about daylight, and looked out to see if our sailor-boy was at work getting breakfast; but he was not at the fire at all. Getting up, I discovered that he had converted a tule-bolsa into a sail boat, and was sailing for the gold-mines.
Tubourai Tamaide, and several more of the principal friends to the English, had fallen in this battle, together with a large number of the common people. A peace subsisted, at present, between the two grand divisions of the island. On the 20th, one of the natives carried off a musket belonging to the guard onshore.
"What! no relations onshore?" "I never was on shore before in my life." "Do you know that you are a destitute orphan?" "What's that?" "That you have no father or mother," said the little girl. "Well," replied I, in my father's words, having no answer more appropriate, "it's no use crying; what's done can't be helped."
And, by George, she is good onshore, but somehow she don't keep up her lick here on the water gets seasick may be. She skips; she runs along regular enough till half-past eleven, and then, all of a sudden, she lets down.
You two young gentlemen must promise to let each other alone while you are on shipboard or" "O, promise, Ned," the dark boy interrupted, "we can have it out onshore, you know! Say, I promise, let me go." "I promise, too, then," said the fair boy. "Mind you both remember," said the purser, releasing his captive; and turning to Mrs. Morris: "No harm done yet ma'am."
Frequently I had occasion to send two or three of my men onshore to some settlement for information, where there would be multitudes of them; and as soon as they saw our people they would run away every soul, the father leaving his child; and this was not because any one had done them harm, for rather at every cape where I had landed and been able to communicate with them I have made them presents of cloth and many other things without receiving anything in return; but because they are so timid.
It did not seem like him. Perhaps he would not cross at all. Johnny's eyes once more swept the broad expanse of drifting ice. Then his gaze became riveted on one spot. The band of black water had narrowed to a ribbon. This meant an onshore wind. Soon they would be able to cross from the solid shore ice to the drifting floe. Surely there could be no better time to cross the Strait.
"They will do so at a push," the man replied; "but they are better with two only." "I will stop onshore, with your permission, Chebron," Jethro said. "I see there are a number of men here with ropes. I suppose they have something to do with the business, and I will accompany them." "The ropes are for hauling the beasts ashore after we have struck them." "Well, I will go and help pull them.
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