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An experience of the kind was unpleasant to a vigorous man, but he reflected that it must be much more so in the case of a woman, who probably had nothing to fall back upon. However, he dismissed the matter from his mind. Having been kneeling in a cramped position in the canoe most of the day, he decided to stroll along the waterside before going back to the sloop.
"And why did your captain shift the brig from her anchorage off the island?" asked Jack. This amused the boat's crew who nudged each other and were evasive until the master's mate who was in charge went far enough to say: "A sloop came in from the Pamlico River. Our ship sought a snugger harbor, d'ye see? There was some private business.
At that instant the ship, which already was sinking under water, raised herself aloft, without any visible assistance, and gained the surface of the waves. The mariners, encouraged by so manifest a miracle, so ordered the sails, that they had the wind in poop, and pursued their course. In the mean time the sloop was vanished out of sight, and no man doubted but she was swallowed by the Waves.
However, before the bit of canvas bellied out and I had dashed back to the helm, the first wave broke over the stern of the sloop. It was a deluge! I was waist deep in the foaming flood; the cockpit was full; the sloop had already shipped about all the water that was good for her, and it was plain she was too water-logged to answer the helm promptly. Up came a second wave.
With these instructions Nelson sailed again for the north, where the Virgin Islands, with those of Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Christopher, were put under his especial charge, the sloop "Rattler," Captain Wilfred Collingwood, a brother of the well-known admiral, being associated with the "Boreas."
While they talked they were furling the Eleanor's sails, and soon they were ready to go ashore. Dolly had brought them up cleverly beside the skiff, and, once the anchor was dropped and everything on board the swift little sloop had been made snug for the night, they dropped over into the skiff and rowed to the beach.
He was accustomed to a prison life, as it were, being shut up so much within a little sloop; but that wooden prison was always on the move, and never seemed to oppress him as did the four dull walls of his present abode.
As you are likely to make considerable use of it, would it not be worth while to have a few days' work done on it? About an hour after the receipt of the last-mentioned letter, I was made happy by the receipt of that of the 10th instant, which came by sloop. You seem fatigued and worried, your head wild and scarcely able to write, but do not name the cause.
In the summer of 1797, a tall, well-built lad with a face showing just a suggestion of melancholy, landed from the weekly market sloop and walked along the streets of New York for the first time. He was a country boy, well versed in trees and brooks and used to pathless hills and rough country roads, and his first impression of New York was that the dwellers there were great lumpkins.
Redmond was more uneasy than ever, but the girls only shouted in the exuberance of their delight. "I don't believe in this thing," said Charley, at last, when his nervousness overcame him. "Are you afraid, Charley?" laughed Belle. "Of course I'm not afraid ugh!" he muttered, as the sloop heeled over till the waves threatened to invade the standing-room. "You are afraid Charley."
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