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The easterly winds, which we had after crossing the Line, had been constantly so very light, that the run for the twenty-four hours, seldom exceeded from twenty to fifty miles. The wind now became very variable, but chiefly from the south-west quarter. On the 2d of August, it shifted to west-north-west, and we stood to the south-west.
He suffered no pain from his wound, although he had gradually grown dizzy, and felt as if the ground was rising before him. He was glad to lie upon the mossy ground in the little cavern under the cliff. Upon examination his wound was found to have opened, and was bleeding. His hunting coat was saturated with blood. Whispering Winds washed the cut, and dressed it with cooling leaves.
Yet now to Peter Uniacke it was tragedy, and his own situation, left in the safety of ignorance preaching to the ignorant, tragedy too, because of the night, and the winds and the sea noises, and the bareness of this Isle. Beyond the church a light shone out, and a bearded shadow towered and dwindled upon a white blind.
She resumed that rapid walk as if she were flying through an atmosphere of invisible fiends. It felt like it. Once, by a superhuman effort, she drove her mind to contemplate the possible the winds, the flames, the waves, and him struggling among them. She saw the face which she had last seen so life-like as a dead face, with its pale, pure features and fair hair.
So the lad went to the war. He had now become a particular protégé of General Mitchell, who had taken him into his own service as an assistant secretary a position in which George had already shown much natural cleverness. After reading the letter just brought to him, Andrews tears it into a hundred little pieces which he scatters to the winds.
The mountain cape to the south, under which the entrance to the harbour winds, the distant islands of Hieres, and in a different direction, the town of Six Fours, are striking objects from this place.
What he considered to be the grand sources of rotatory storms winds charged with opposite kinds of electricity and blowing in opposite directions appeared to account satisfactorily for the occurrence of hurricanes in the Pacific, where there are no continents or chains of mountains to produce them and guide their courses.
"Don't know much about it," said Tommie. "But I guess the far end is best over by the Cave of the Winds," he finished, pointing his boat toward the rocky arch on the far side of the little island. The two scouts stepped cautiously ashore. That end of the island was banked with huge rocks that shot up almost straight, forming a natural fort, with the rugged, artistic arch at its base.
Side, and the distance 1200 yards one third of the way on a rock, about 200 yards over a loose Sand collected in a hollar blown by the winds from the bottoms below which was disagreeable to pass, as it was Steep and loose. at the lower part of those rapids we arrived at 5 Large Lodges of nativs drying and prepareing fish for market, they gave us Philburts, and berries to eate, we returned droped down to the head of the rapids and took every article except the Canoes across the portag where I had formed a camp on ellegable Situation for the protection of our Stores from Thieft, which we were more fearfull of, than their arrows. we despatched two men to examine the river on the opposit Side, and reported that the Canoes could be taken down a narrow Chanel on the opposit Side after a Short portage at the head of the falls, at which place the Indians take over their Canoes.
This is indeed the house set upon a rock, which the winds and waves beat upon in vain. Right poise is to be gained by steady and temperate effort, and by setting the heart upon the everlasting.
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