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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Dad gave one shout as Norah disappeared into the gully. 'Go back, my darling! he yelled, forgetting that he was so far off that he might as well have shouted to the moon. Then he gave a groan, and dug his spurs into Bosun. I had mine as far as they'd go in Sirdar already! "The smoke rolled on up the gully and in a minute it had covered it all up.
The bosun and I might ha' searched for that there rock till all was blue, and never ha' found it; but you comes along and gets aboard of us eight hunderd mile away, and says you `we'll sight Saint Paul as we runs down our eastin''; and, although we've been headin' all round the compass since then, there's the hiland, right enough, and just where you said it would be, ay, to the very hinch."
By this time it was patent to the veriest tyro that the elements were preparing to break loose. Grief, coming on deck from consulting the barometer, which steadfastly remained at 29.90, encountered Jackie-Jackie, whose face was as brooding and troublous as the sky and air. Jackie-Jackie, a Tongan sailor of experience, served as a sort of bosun and semi-second mate over the mixed Kanaka crew.
"Fo'c's'le, ahoy there!" presently shouted out Mr Mackay near me all of a sudden, making me jump round from my contemplation of the river, into which I was gazing down from over the stern, looking at the broad white foaming wake we left behind us as we glided on. "Is the bosun there?"
The Old Man didn't need a third mate any more than he needed a tail, but Matt Peasley looked like a comer to him and he wanted an excuse to encourage the boy by berthing him aft; also it sounds far better to be known as a third mate instead of a mate's bosun, which was, in reality, the position the Old Man had promised Matt.
Can you suggest a better plan?" For a brief space there was silence; then the bosun said: "If we can not tell the way to the coast, neither can we know if we be going inland, and so we may stumble into the very danger we ought to avoid." "There is the north star above us," I replied, "and by going south it would appear that we shall go away from the sea.
Two mornings later the Captain appeared at the breakfast-table with the same shifting and uneasy look in his eye. "Anything wrong, sir?" I asked. "Yes," he answered, trying to appear at ease and twisting a fried egg to and fro between his fingers with such nervous force as almost to break it in two "I regret to say that we have lost the bosun." "The bosun!" I cried.
His skin, too, had the unspotted gleaming whiteness of high vitality. "He's a reg'lar race horse a tiger," burst out from one admirer in the crowd. The bosun, also stripped of his upper garments, looked all of his great size, and, moving about, showed himself not altogether lacking in agility.
"It is some of those mutinous rascals carrying on their games, I I know! Just look, will ye, bosun?" "There ar'n't a sowl thare, I tell ye, sorr," protested Tim, rather a bit vexed at his word being doubted, as he turned to go forward where the row was still going on.
I hoped that with courage and address and circumspection we might contrive to keep up the imposture long enough to accomplish our ends. My comrades, however, looked at the matter in a different light. "'Tis all very fine," said the bosun gloomily, "but what about the lingo, sir?
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