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It was a treat to see them paddling their four logs, almost side on to the breaking surf, where our boats could not safely venture; one knelt behind on the thick ends of the two prolonged middle logs, the other amidship their heads only showed above a breaker, the next moment they were on its crest, the surf foaming over their knees down again into another hollow, then up, and with a surge the lumber drove its nose on the sand, the stern threw up, and the two nipped into the water at either end; another surge swung the stern round, and shoved the raft broadside on far up the sand, and they were landing their nets all done as easily as you could pull up a dog-cart and step out!
"Seems to me as though it sounded from yonder," says Jackson, looking away over the starboard beam of the boat. "What have ye there, men?" says I, nodding at a bundle of canvas under the amidship thwart. "Ship's bread," answered Jackson, with a note of sulkiness in his voice. "It was hove to us on my asking for a bite. She was a liberal barque. The cask's more 'n three-quarters full."
That is there were four sets of double planes, or eight in all, and between them was an enclosed cabin containing the motor, the various controls, places to sleep and eat, the cabin also forming the storage room for the oil, gasolene and other supplies. This cabin was not yet built, but, as I have said, it would be "amidship" if one may use that term concerning an airship.
"This will be your prison for a while," said La Foy significantly, and Tom wondered how long this would be the case. A sharp thought came to him how long would they be prisoners? Did not some other, and more terrible, fate await them? As La Foy spoke, he opened a storeroom door that led off from the main, or amidship, cabin.
As they passed by, Barnaby True could see him very plain, the moonlight shining full upon him a large, stout gentleman with a round red face, and clad in a fine laced coat of red cloth. Amidship of the boat was a box or chest about the bigness of a middle-sized traveling trunk, but covered all over with cakes of sand and dirt.
There were three doors on each side of the main house, a large one well forward, a small one nearly amidship, and another large one well aft. There were also six small windows on each side, and from three of those nearest Winn a cheerful light was streaming, while the other three were dark.
Indeed the captives could hear confused cries and the running to and fro of many feet. He made for the sawed panel, and, in another instant, had burst out and was through it, out into the passageway between the after and amidship cabins. His companions followed him. They looked into the rear cabin, or motor compartment, and a scene of confusion met their gaze.
On the contrary, every man was on the alert; some sprang to the bow and stood there, awaiting the first shock; others, amidship, stood waiting for the orders of the Kohen. Meanwhile the monster approached, and at length, with a sweep of his long neck, came down upon the dense crowd at the bows.
The Zeppelin was mortally injured. Her commander turned to earth for refuge. Seeing this, Lieutenant Warneford came nearer. He had but one bomb left. Descending to within a few hundred feet of the airship, while its machine guns played upon him, he released this remaining bomb. It struck the Zeppelin amidship.
She had a funnel amidship and two masts, but there her resemblance to the Vulcan ceased. The crew stared, talked, speculated, until the sun swung up like a white-hot metal ball in the sky, and the quivering heat drove them below under the awnings. From here they could still view the stranger, but not to so good advantage.
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