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There were benches along the sides, a spyglass hanging overhead in beckets, and a binnacle close by where the wheel had once stood. The Captain, as we will henceforth call him, however, just then fixed our attention more than the strangely fitted up wreck.
He then at once followed her and, passing his left arm through one of the beckets, forthwith struck out, swimming with a long, steady stroke, in the direction which he had decided would be the most advantageous for him to take.
But you are too late, my hearties!" apostrophising the ship, now less than a cable's length from us; "you will be to leeward of us in another two minutes. Boy, bring me my glass. You will find it slung in beckets in the companion." On came the ship, near enough now for us to see that she was undoubtedly an Indiaman, and as undoubtedly British.
For a full minute he remained thus, then he withdrew from its beckets beneath the seat a long and powerful telescope, which he adjusted and levelled. For another full minute he gazed anxiously through the tube, and then, handing it to Bob to hold, he crept silently forward, so as not to disturb the sleeping women, and quietly called the relief watch.
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