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"Fogarty!" cried the captain, beckoning over his shoulder with his head. Tod stepped up and stood at attention; as quick in reply as if two steel springs were fastened to his heels. "Looks rather soapy, Fogarty. May come on thick. Better take a turn to the inlet and see if that yawl is in order. We might have to cross it to-night. We can't count on this weather.
"It is the hardest work I ever put my hand to, and not a grog-shop in the place," interposed Yawl. "Hold your jaw, Bill, and let me say my say out. We are tired of doing nothing, and if you like we will build you a sloop." "A sloop! To go away in, I suppose?" "That is as you please, sir. Anyhow, a sloop, say of fifteen or twenty tons, would be very useful.
Yawl's onslaught was so sudden that the boy had been unable to draw his machete, and after a desperate bout of tugging and straining, the sailor had got the upper-hand and was now kneeling on Ramon's chest, and feeling for his knife. Though sorely bruised with my fall, and still gasping for breath, I ran to the rescue, and gripping Yawl by the shoulders, bore him backward on the deck.
After breakfast I went with the pinnace and yawl, accompanied by Mr Banks and Dr Solander, over to the north side of the bay, to take a view of the country, and two fortified villages which we had discovered at a distance.
They landed on the east side of the river, but finding it too deep to cross, and seeing some natives on the other side, they took one of the boats the yawl and went over, leaving the other boat the pinnace behind them. When the navigators drew near to the place where the natives were assembled, the latter ran away.
The sea was still running too high for any small boat to venture out; so it was arranged that the wherry should take us back to town, leaving the yawl, with a picked crew, to hug the island until daybreak, and then set forth in search of the Dolphin.
Nay, in some places where there is not a very good shore for landing, it is an amusement of itself to see each boat or fishing yawl come in.
If they keep on firing we must try to cripple their sailing powers if we can. It's lucky she didn't happen to be a steamer." But Duff, already somewhat piqued by Gary's apparent indifference as to whether the yawl was picked up or not, drew himself up stiffly. "When I shipped with you, Captain Gary," he replied, "there was nothing said about my serving as a gunner.
We landed abreast of the Ship and on the East side of the River just mentioned; but seeing some of the Natives on the other side of the River of whom I was desirous of speaking with, and finding that we could not ford the River, I order'd the yawl in to carry us over, and the pinnace to lay at the Entrance. In the mean time the Indians made off.
Nails we had only, by drawing them from different parts of the boat; and the rest of the chest was used to kindle a fire. It also happened that our main tarpaulin, which had been newly tarred, was put into the boat. Of it we made a main-sail; and of an old piece of canvas, that had been a sail to a yawl, we made a fore-sail.
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