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About fifteen feet beyond our depth the Captain had anchored a stationary staging, which was merely an old flatboat caulked and floored over. It had steps and ropes from its sides, and was intended as the first object to reach and rest on when we had learned to swim a dozen or more strokes.
"Get the rope under your arms!" called Banion to the blackened, sodden figure before him. Slowly, feebly, his order was obeyed. With much effort the victim got the loop below one arm, across a shoulder, and then paused. "Your rope, quick, Bill!" Jackson hurried and they joined the ends of the two ropes. "Not my horse he's wild.
I pointed, still incredulous, toward the great burning log. "Did you grow yonder tree in this cavern? or was it borne here on the back of a slave?" "It was lowered from above, over the edge of the cliff, by grass ropes."
But without arms it would be madness to try in broad daylight, and we agreed to wait till night, and to lie down again where we were before, putting the ropes round our legs again and our hands behind our backs, so that, if they did look in, everything should seem secure. "'We shall have plenty of time, one of the sailors said, 'for they have coiled a big hawser down on the hatch.
Towards midnight Mikel said: "Our reindeer are tired, we must rest; but we will not sleep more than three or four hours, for we must reach a station where we can procure fresh reindeer." We unharnessed our reindeer, and tied them with long ropes. When this was done we got into our bags and soon were fast asleep. At about three o'clock Mikel awoke me, saying, "Paulus, it is about time to go."
Many men and horses of the 5th Dragoon Guards were killed by the lightning; while hundreds of the picketed horses broke their ropes, and galloped wildly about. The position of the British army in the morning was very similar to that occupied by a portion of it, when besieging the forts of Salamanca; extending from the ford of Santa Marta to the heights near the village of Arapiles.
Right in the wind's eye too; clean full. By the powers, I believe if you were to lift her, she would lay a point on the other side of the wind." "Get another pull of the fore-halyards, my lads," cried McElvina. "These new ropes stretch most confoundedly. There, belay all that; take a severe turn, and don't come up an inch."
But at 12 we are in total darkness the ship rolls and pitches every now and then a sea strikes her, and burr hush swish goes the water over her sides or bows, and along her decks. Then the men above run about, ropes are pulled, sails set or taken in, and a general hullabaloo goes on no doubt in the interest of the passengers but very disagreeable. Then the boatswain's whistle Pee- ee-ee ah!
I hear the rustlers have been after them. So get a move on." "What are rustlers?" asked Alice, who seldom let pass a chance to acquire information. "Cattle stealers, Miss. Ornery, mean men who trade on the rights of others. But we'll snub 'em if we get hold of 'em!" The branding of the big steer was quickly done and then the restraining ropes were cast off so that it might get up.
These animals, covered with long hair, were very like long-legged bears. They were small but spirited, being of Siberian breed. The way in which the iemschik harnessed them was thus: one, the largest, was secured between two long shafts, on whose farther end was a hoop carrying tassels and bells; the two others were simply fastened by ropes to the steps of the tarantass.
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