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Glancing towards the ship, I saw she was already come to an anchor and a boatful of men pulling briskly for the reef where stood Joanna, and as they rowed they cheered her amain: "La Culebra!" they roared. "Ahoy, Joanna! Give a rouse for Fighting Jo! Cap'n Jo ha, Joanna!" The boat being near enough, many eager hands were reached out to her and with Joanna on board they paddled into the lagoon.
Then he sat down, leaned against a spar and smoked. After a while the pipe fell from his listless fingers. "Ahoy, schooner Chapman!" The sleeping sentinel stirred languidly. He stretched himself, yawned, rose in splendid leisure. Then a shout broke from him. Like a frightened rabbit he dived through the hatchway, yelling at the top of his lungs. "The police! The police!" Harpending was up first.
"Boat ahoy!" came through the darkness in tones that were just loud enough to attract his attention. "Who is it?" demanded Marcy, picking up the loaded gun that lay beside him in the stern-sheets. "Way enough, Julius." "Mebbe dat aint de man you want see," replied the boy, handling the oars as if he meant to turn the boat toward the opposite bank.
The quartermaster, at the helm, struck eight bells, which were repeated on the forecastle. "All the first part of the starboard watch, ahoy!" shouted the boatswain, for it was now time to commence the programme of regular sea duty. The first lieutenant took his place, as officer of the deck, near the helm; the second master on the forecastle and the third midshipman in the waist.
As the ship drew nearer Clem had no doubt that she was a man-of-war, a large frigate apparently, under her three topsails and courses. "She is passing to windward of us," I exclaimed. "Not so sure of that," cried Clem. "She will be right over us if we do not cry out in time." "Let us begin, then," I said. "Now, shout away, Hip! Hip!" "No, no!" cried Clem, "that will not do. Shout `Ship ahoy!"
Beyond the next turn, a fowling-piece cracked sharply, close at hand; something splashed, and the ruffled body of a snipe bobbed in the bronze flood alongside. "Hang it!" complained a voice, loudly. "The beggar was too Hallo! Oh, I say, Gilly! Gilly, ahoy! Pick us up, there's a good chap! The bird first, will you, and then me."
Two points off the starboard bow she bears." "The maintop, ahoy!" shouted Blackbeard. "Can ye see a vessel's spars?" "'Tis too hazy inshore. But unless my eyes play me tricks, a smudge of smoke arises." Jack Cockrell nervously confided to Joe: "That would be Captain Wellsby's campfire on the beach." "Trust him to douse it," was the easy assurance. "I feel better.
He shouted once more, but there was no answer; and when he raised his voice again it was only for the sound to seem to come back, just as if they were shut up in some large room. "He must be hereabout," said Dick. "Shall we find our way back to the boat?" said Tom in a doubting tone. "I don't know, but if we don't we could walk home in half an hour. Come along. Ahoy!"
She was coming up the bay before the wind, and came swiftly through the fog towards them. In passing on her way, she came astern of the Antelope. "Schooner, ahoy!" cried Captain Corbet; and some conversation took place, in which they learned that the stranger was the schooner Wave, from St. John, and that she had not seen any signs whatever of any drifting boat.
"No, sir, no," cried the lieutenant, "or I would have had one down. Ahoy there!" he roared. "Light another blue!"
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