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"We have heard nothing, and the lookouts have not reported anything," added Mr. Boulong. "On deck, sir! Wreck on the port beam!" yelled the lookout aloft. "Call the captain, Mr. Scott," said the first officer, as he went out on deck. He made out the ominous sounds, and judged that they came from a point not more than a mile distant.
I was holding the baby when he says to Missus he was going to Bully, or Boulong 'Boulogne 'Yes, Bullying, or some such place; and bullied him they have; stripped him even of his very portmanteau, with his eight new shirts in it, that they have!
He was cool and self-possessed in spite of the peril of his situation, and was observing with painful solicitude the struggles of a person about ten fathoms from him. "Stand by to lay on your oars!" said Mr. Boulong with energy, when the first cutter was within a boat's length of the individual. "Hold water! Stand by to haul him in, Knott!" he added to the bow man. "Stern all!"
Mr. Boulong had directed his boat, after taking in Dr. Ferrolan, as the Hindu called him, to the person the farthest to the eastward, leaving the others to be saved by the boats nearer to them. It is enough to say that all the wrecked party were saved, without giving the details of the picking up of each of them.
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