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Nor had Louise ever seen a woman with so much muscular strength and the knowledge of how to apply it as Betty displayed. She lifted Lawford out of the girl's arms and into the skiff with the dexterity of one trained in hauling in halibut, for Betty had spent her younger years on the Banks with her father. Louise scrambled into the skiff without assistance.
Glossin laid his finger upon his lips with a cautious glance at the door, and then proceeded in his instructions. 'When you escape, you had better go to the Kaim of Derncleugh. 'Donner! that howff is blown. 'The devil! well, then, you may steal my skiff that lies on the beach there, and away. But you must remain snug at the Point of Warroch till I come to see you.
He chose a light skiff rigged with a leg-o'-mutton sail. The wind was against him and with the sail reefed and the mast unstepped and stowed in the bottom of the boat, he slipped a pair of oars into the locks and with strong, even strokes pulled away, hugging the shore, that he might take advantage of the lee of the land.
After likewise closing the opening in the skiff, the Canadian began to unscrew the nuts still bolting us to the underwater boat. Suddenly a noise from the ship's interior became audible. Voices were answering each other hurriedly. What was it? Had they spotted our escape? I felt Ned Land sliding a dagger into my hand. "Yes," I muttered, "we know how to die!" The Canadian paused in his work.
"I might have brought it in with me, but I didn't see it." "I'm going," declared Bobby, with an accent that left no doubt he was, as he pulled off his clothes, and his sealskin boots. "You've had your dip, and I'm going to have one now the first of the year." "It's pretty cold," Jimmy cautioned. "I've been in, and I'm used to it, and don't mind it." But Bobby was in, and swimming for the skiff.
At noon two days later Francis Vere with Captain Allen and the two boys took their seats in the stern of a skiff manned by six rowers. In the bow were the servitors of the two officers, and the luggage was stowed in the extreme stern. "The tide is getting slack, is it not?" Captain Vere asked the boatmen. "Yes, sir; it will not run up much longer.
A newer piece of hawser was produced, and the skiff despatched once more on its laborious errand. The loose end was finally picked up and knotted, and the capstan started again. But no better success followed, as soon as the full strain came upon it, the rope burst asunder in a new place. After this they went around the other side of the island and tried there.
Dick was proud of his sculling, and at his request it was arranged that he should scull the skiff for the captain, while Ned was to pole the little motor-boat, in which his father and sister would go with him. Before they had gone far Dick found that he had overestimated his strength, and that handling the heavy sculling oar was too much for him. Mr.
I found a way out of that shut in place and made a jolly dive for shore." "But the skiff?" "You'll need one, won't you?" challenged Hiram. "Why, yes. I intended hiring one when I got across from the island." "So you said, and I acted. I did better than hiring a boat, Dave." "How is that?" "Bought one outright. I took my money with me.
In addition to me, the skiff carried Captain Nemo, two crewmen, and the instruments in other words, a chronometer, a spyglass, and a barometer. This powerful animal is audible from far away when it sends up towering spouts of air and steam that resemble swirls of smoke.
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