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Stevens and the others, and, as I looked for, they had a fine relish for the enterprise. Presently a boat was put out from the sloop, and two men and a boy came rowing towards me. Standing off a little distance from the shore, they asked what was wanted. "The King's errand," was my reply in French, and I must be carried down the river by them, for which I would pay generously.
The boat, like all Japanese small boats, was in build between a gondola and a dory, and dated from a stage in the art of rowing prior to the discovery that to sit is better than to stand even at work. My estimate, prompted perhaps by interest, and certainly abetted by ignorance, made it about half that distance.
This had the desired effect; matters were soon arranged, and we started the next morning. The wind, however, was dead against us, and after rowing hard till midday we put in to a small river where there were few huts, to cook our dinners.
How could they help it when Columbia High had completed the greatest year in all her history first there was the winning of the baseball championship; then came the hotly contested inter-school rowing races, in which she won new laurels with her young athletes; and last but not least, both Clifford and Bellport had gone down to bitter defeat before her gridiron warriors!
'Truly, dear mother, I am, replied Pinkel, rowing faster than ever, for he was half afraid that the witch might come after him. But she had no power on the water, and turned angrily into the hut, muttering to herself all the while: 'Take care! take care! A second time you will not escape so easily!
On which Amyas, thinking surely that the good fellow had gone mad with some stroke of the sun, or by having fallen into the sea after being overheated with his rowing, bade pull alongside, and asked him in heaven's name what he was doing with his nether tackle. Amyas was very angry at this wanton damage, in which his model, Drake, had never indulged; but Cary had his jest ready.
I immediately went off in a rowing boat, and, after much difficulty, I succeeded in inducing some of the natives who could speak Arabic to stop and converse with me. I begged the natives not to fly from their district, but to wait until I should make inquiries on the following day; and I promised to restore the women and children, should they have been kidnapped.
The latitude of the north part of Sumbawa I make by my observations and bearings to be 8 degrees 6 minutes south, which differs very little from the Dutch charts. Monday 31. In the night of the 31st several prows were rowing about us, on which account we kept all night under arms. September. Thursday 3.
Pomp was for rowing on and up to a favourite spot where there was a special haunt of the fish, where the stream curved round and formed a deep pool.
Is that so! That's too bad." Then suddenly Deacon sat erect. "By George! Father is one of the assistant cashiers there. I wonder if he'll be promoted." He turned upon the girl. "Is that what you wanted to tell me?" She waited a bit before replying. "No not exactly that." "Not exactly What do you mean?" "Do you know how keen Mr. Doane, I mean Junior's father is on rowing?
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