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Two in each boat will pull at a time for one hour, while the other two rest or sleep, and so on, shift about; till another breeze springs up. Don't fold it up tight, Alf. Leave it pretty slack till it is dry, and then put on its belt." "Don't you think we might have supper before taking to the oars?" suggested Leo. "I second that motion," cried Benjy. "And I support it," said Alf.
It was the period of rest for man and bird. Air, earth, and water were locked in profound silence and repose. "We've got to Paradise at last, father," was the first sound that broke the silence, if we except the gentle dip of the oars and the rippling water on the bow. "Looks like it, Benjy," replied the Captain. A wakeful dog on shore was the first to scent the coming strangers.
They would help him to defend his country, if attacked, they said, but they would not go out to war. Amalatok had once threatened Blackbeard if he refused to go, but Blackbeard had smiled, and threatened to retaliate by making him "jump!" Whereupon the old chief became suddenly meek. This, then, was the state of affairs when Benjy and Leo went shooting, on the morning to which we have referred.
"Worse, father! why, it couldn't be worse, unless, indeed, his spirit were brought alive again and allowed to contemplate the humbling condition of his body." "I don't refer to the bear, Benjy, but to yourself, lad. You might have been killed, you know, and I'm very thankful you were not though you half-deserve to be.
He tied me up upon a ladder, and gave me a hundred lashes with his own hand, and master Benjy stood by to count them for him. While my mistress went to bring him drink, there was a dreadful earthquake. Part of the roof fell down, and every thing in the house went clatter, clatter, clatter.
But when they came to the shore and walked up to the house, and when Yulee found her mother half wild with thinking she had been drowned, and her grandfather, old Benjy Robin, crooning in his arm-chair and saying he had been the death of them, she began to think it was not so fine, and lay down that night penitently in her little bed and promised over and over never to be cast away again.
But we had scarce reached the road before we could see two figures in the distance, hazily outlined in the mid-light of the departed sun and the coming moon. The first was Monsieur Gratiot himself, the second Benjy. Monsieur Gratiot took me by the hand. "I regret to inform you, Mr. Ritchie," said he, politely, "that my keel boats are loaded and ready to leave.
It would probably throw light on the wonderful phenomena of magnetism and atmospheric electricity and the mysterious Aurora Borealis to say nothing of the flora of these regions and the animal life on the land and in the sea." "Why, Alf," exclaimed Benjy in surprise, "I had no idea you were so deeply learned on these subjects."
But we will go there." "How far is it?" I asked, thinking of Monsieur Gratiot. "About a mile," said Colonel Chouteau, "a pleasant walk." We stepped out, Hippolyte and Gaspard running in front, the Colonel and Monsieur Gratiot and myself following; and a snicker which burst out now and then told us that Benjy was in the rear.
These resolute intending discoverers of the North Pole passed in succession the various "farthests" of previous explorers, and the stout brothers Vandervell, with their cousin Benjy Vane, gazed eagerly over the bulwarks at the swiftly-passing headlands, while the Captain pointed out the places of interest, and kept up a running commentary on the brave deeds and high aspirations of such well-known men as Frobisher, Davis, Hudson, Ross, Parry, Franklin, Kane, McClure, Rae, McClintock, Hayes, Hall, Nares, Markham, and all the other heroes of Arctic story.
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