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He was a sarkastik man, and pretended to think the ship was fitted out just to pick up shipwrecked people, an' he also pretended to think we was castaways what had been saved by it. He said o' course anybody could see at a glance we wasn't sailormen, an' he supposed Mr. Salmon was a butcher what had been carried out to sea while paddling at Margate to strengthen his ankles.
But it revealed drift on drift of snow piled high around the hut a hopeless, uncharted, trackless sea of white lying below the rocky shores to which the castaways still clung. Through the marvelously clear air the smoke of the pastoral village of Poker Flat rose miles away. Mother Shipton saw it, and from a remote pinnacle of her rocky fastness hurled in that direction a final malediction.
An early breakfast was had, and then the things were taken back to the boat. "All aboard!" shouted Captain Spark. "And may we now locate that large island without further trouble." "Oh, I wish I was home!" groaned Mr. Tarbill. The boat was floated without difficulty, and the castaways got aboard. They rowed for some distance and then the sail was hoisted.
So intent had all been upon the preparation of breakfast that the steamer was almost audible when seen. Good! Here came water, rice, bread, sugar, flour, and perhaps meat, for poor castaways, and probably money from kindly lady-passengers, this last, for the ship was obviously a liner.
One day when the fisherman's children were more annoying than they had ever been before, they said to the twins: "We are the true-born children of Christians, but you, with all your neatness and superiority, are but castaways, without any other father or mother than the river, and belong to the toads and frogs!"
Sounds good, at any rate; and all the world is agreed that whatever sounds good must be good." The Peculiar People proving to be Savages, the Castaways seize the First Opportunity to leave them, not relishing their Company.
He was to be the bearer of a letter from the admiral to Ovando, asking him to send a vessel to release the castaways from their imprisonment, and of a despatch to the Sovereigns, giving a detailed account of the Admiral's voyage and a glowing description of the riches of Veragua.
"You know the value which castaways set on such articles as these the last remains of a wreck. No! no!" repeated the sailor, in a tone of conviction; "no, he has not left the island! If he had escaped in a boat made by himself, he would still less have left these indispensable and necessary articles. No! he is on the island!" "Living?" asked Herbert. "Living or dead.
As he was about to give up his tests as a failure, he suddenly caught a faint clicking. "J. T," came faintly to his ears. He answered promptly. "Who are you?" was the message he sent. "U. S. cruiser Virginia," was the reply. "Who are you?" "Survivors of merchant ship Albatross," Jack flashed back. "Castaways on uncharted island." "What's your location?" "Don't know.
By all the signs, it must have blazed to a good height and burned for days; from the scantling of a spar that lay upon the margin only half consumed, it must have been the work of more than one; and I received at once the image of a forlorn troop of castaways, houseless in that lost corner of the earth, and feeding there their fire of signal.
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