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"That may be," replied the sailor, "but I prefer a gale of wind on board a well-found craft. A vessel is built to sail on the sea, and not beneath it." "My friends," said the engineer, "it is useless, at any rate as regards the 'Nautilus, to discuss the question of submarine vessels. The 'Nautilus' is not ours, and we have not the right to dispose of it.
"As for being a lost soul, you don't look it. In fact you look like a very well-found soul, indeed." "It is rather a cheerful world to live in," said Hal with apparent irrelevance. "I hope they haven't spoiled you," she said anxiously. "Are you vain, Hal? No: you don't look it." "What on earth should I be vain about? I've never done anything in the world." "No? Yet you've improved.
After drifting with the tide for six or seven hours the trawl is hauled up, the marketable fish are picked out, the others thrown away, and the trawl sent overboard for another operation. More than a thousand sail of well-found trawlers are constantly engaged in sweeping the seas around our coast in this way, and it is to them that we owe a very large proportion of our supply of fish.
Scarce two months since I set out in a well-found galleon, I and three hundred chosen men, to hunt down and destroy this very woman her and her evil company. One of their ships we fell in with, which ship, after long and sharp debate, we sunk.
Heavy and continuous mountain-fighting ensued, in which the Southern troops were only partially successful. Being less well-equipped in mountain artillery and less well-found in general supplies they were forced to rely largely on guerrilla warfare.
Their tools and stores were four days ahead, in the care of an experienced teamster whom Mike knew well, and whom he could trust to pull through, despite the abominable roads and the misfortunes that had knocked up many a well-found team and marked the track with crippled horses and stranded wagons.
To any who have sailed on the glassy breast of the Pacific day after day, knowing all the little pleasures of life aboard a well-found turbine yacht, a description would be superfluous; to one who has never known it, such an attempt would be entirely futile. By either alternative I am debarred from trying to set down the delight of our days, the glory of our nights of stars.
"I'm glad to hear it," said the doctor, "for I want a well-found craft, new or nearly so, built of the best materials." "Good; ought to be. What sort?" "Well, I should like a large schooner, fast and with plenty of room below." "Cargo?" grunted the captain. "No. Provisions, etcetera," said the doctor, who was beginning to feel annoyed.
"To stay hid below and pray God for another shift o' fortune," piously answered Joe. "There is no fear of Blackbeard's rummagin' the hold at present. He must decide if he'll fight the Revenge or give her the slip. And whilst him and his men are busied on deck, I can make bold to search for stores fit to eat. Cap'n Bonnet allus had a well-found ship.
Even now the breakers were terrible enough, as we watched them from the high bows, though the wind was, as I have said, not what one would trouble about much in the open sea, in a well-found ship. But naught save dire necessity would make a seaman try to beach his ship here at any time, least of all when half a gale was piling the seas one over the other across the shallows.
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