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Fortunately, a heavy boat-cloak caused the saddle to roll under his belly; and finding that he could not make way in consequence, he quietly waited for me about a quarter of a mile off. When I had remounted, I looked back to the scene of my disaster, and saw my two German friends busily employed in catching the chickens.
"I wonder where I am," he thought, as, after forcing his mind to obey his will, he went over in review all the adventures that had befallen him from the time he left the ship till he was jolting along in that donkey-cart, half-suffocated in the boat-cloak and straw. Then there came a dead stoppage. He could get no farther.
The boatswain looked round; he perceived that the officers were sitting on a boat-cloak. "Whose boat-cloak is that?" inquired the boatswain. "Mine," replied Gascoigne. "I trust, Mr Gascoigne, you will have the kindness to lend it to me to go up the side with."
Then a sailor's song was heard; Murat recognised the appointed signal, and answered it by burning the priming of a pistol, and the boat immediately ran inshore; but as she drew three feet of water, she was obliged to stop ten or twelve feet from the beach; two men dashed into the water and reached the beach, while a third remained crouching in the stern-sheets wrapped in his boat-cloak.
When he reached the Porpoise he felt so disgusted that he kicked poor Jocko, boat-cloak, fez and all, down the main hatch, gruffly ordered his gig to be triced up to the davits, and went below to brood over his anticipated disgrace in the solitude of his own cabin, where I presently found him.
The boatswain looked round; he perceived that the officers were sitting on a boat-cloak. "Whose boat-cloak is that?" inquired the boatswain. "Mine," replied Gascoigne. "I trust, Mr Gascoigne, you will have the kindness to lend it to me to go up the side with."
Remember, too, that you are never to speak to him unless he speaks to you. But you won't have much to do with him. Were you ever at sea, before?" "No, sir. Only about the Broads in a coracle." "You'll find it very interesting, then. If you're not seasick. Here we are at the boat. Now, jump in. Get into the bows." "Mr. Scott" was already snug under a boat-cloak in the sternsheets.
This letter, and the refreshment with which Seaton furnished him, raised his drooping and exhausted spirits; and, at his friend's request, he wrapped himself in the large boat-cloak that his provident wife had sent for him and lay down to enjoy the first calm and undisturbed repose that had been permitted to him since he left his beloved home.
He arose, threw his boat-cloak round him, opened the door, and said, "Eustacia!" There was no answer. "Eustacia!" he repeated louder, "there is a letter on the mantelpiece for you." But no response was made to this statement save an imaginary one from the wind, which seemed to gnaw at the corners of the house, and the stroke of a few drops of rain upon the windows.
A fine large ship a-plying to wind'ard of us " In a moment Joanna was on her feet and casting a boat-cloak about herself hasted out of the cabin, bidding Diccon bring me along.
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