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Hansen had carelessly sailed too close. The momentum of the Karluk and its slight wave disturbance must have sufficed to upset the equilibrium of the berg, floating with only a third of its bulk above the water. And the displacement had narrowly missed the schooner's side. He got a cup of coffee after dressing warmly, and went up.
Fortunately, we had been able to make all the provision that was possible to meet the impending struggle for the wreck of our mainmast was now inboard, while the lanyards of the fore-rigging had been cut away on both sides; and the wreckage of the foremast was now under the schooner's bows, attached to the hull by the stays only, so that it served as a floating anchor, to which the little vessel was already riding head to wind.
Mr Fitzgerald's voice was heard shouting "We've awoke them up. Erin go bragh! Hurra, lads! push on!" A deep voice was heard joining the shout, "For the schooner! The schooner's our aim!" It was that of McAllister.
And there it was the body of a man floating slowly by, and then on backward in the schooner's wake, the body of one of the blacks, with wild upturned eyes set in death, and, as it seemed to Mark, a look of horror and appeal in the stern, staring face, gazing heavenward, as if asking why such things should be.
This night we got some rest. Tuesday, 15th. The words "go after tomorrow," were used among our Spanish fellow prisoners, as though that happy tomorrow would never come in what manner it came will soon be noticed. Friday, 18th commenced with brighter prospects of liberty than ever. The pirates were employed in setting up our devoted schooner's shrouds, stays, &c.
Did he not himself describe the pirate schooner's appearance in this room, and when he was attacked by the Talisman did he not shew out in his true colours, thereby proving that he is Durward the pirate?" The widow's face grew pale and her voice trembled as she replied, like one who sought to convince herself rather than her hearer, "That is not positive proof, Henry.
We said nothing to him about this; it seemed necessary, no permissible. But to-day when we were coming to a peaceable understanding about the new contracts he stumbled over one of the schooner's manifests. Mislaid, you see a clerk! It swept him to his feet in a rage, he couldn't speak, and and he had walked, it was hot...." Gerrit Ammidon made no answer; there was nothing to be said.
Now, the chief engineer of the liner could have done no more, and no engineer of thirty years' service could have assumed one half of the ancient-mariner air with which Harvey, first careful to spit over the side, made public the schooner's position for that day, and then and not till then relieved Disko of the quadrant. There is an etiquette in all these things.
The wind was slowly rising, and by three o'clock as, with a dozen seals in our boat, we were deliberating whether to go on or turn back, the recall flag was run up at the schooner's mizzen a sure sign that with the rising wind the barometer was falling and that our sailing-master was getting anxious for the welfare of the boats. Away we went before the wind with a single reef in our sail.
Once all hands fended desperately with spars to keep her clear, and only the schooner's overhung stern saved her rudder from the savagely clashing masses that closed behind them. But he showed few signs of strain. Once in a while he would sit with closed eyes or pass his hands across his brows as if they pained him.
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