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As soon, however, as they saw the strange craft beating off to meet them, and making short tacks to keep between them and the beach, they whisked the canoe round and paddled desperately for the channel, with the catamaran in full chase.
This was the time when the people of England were made drunk, and indeed mad, by the deleterious potions that were administered by Pitt and his colleagues, in the shape of Acts of Parliament, for raising volunteer corps, catamaran schemes, car projects for conveying troops, &c. &c. with every other species of folly and profligacy.
Slick, such a catamaran as that; there's a proper goney for you, for to go and raise such a buildin as that are, and he as much use for it, I do suppose, as my old waggon here has for a fifth wheel. Blue Nose always takes keer to have a big house, cause it shows a big man, and one that's considerable forehanded, and pretty well to do in the world.
Meanwhile, Leslie found little difficulty in inducing the two blacks to accompany him aboard the catamaran and out to the brig. And when he reached the latter he had not much more difficulty in making them understand what he wanted them to do this, by the way, consisting chiefly in heaving away upon the winch.
The poor little "home-made" boat threw the blacks into a perfect frenzy of astonishment, and they concluded that I must have come from a very distant part of the world in so enormous a "catamaran." As a matter of fact, from that moment they looked upon me as most certainly a kind of Supreme Spirit from another world; they may have had doubts before.
Why did the crew of the Catamaran stand listening to those voices without making challenge, and with looks that betokened apprehension rather than relief? Six words that escaped from the lips of Ben Brace will explain the silence of himself and his companions, as well at the dissatisfied air that had impressed itself upon their faces. The six words were: "Dangnation! it be the big raft!"
Then I must confess I began to share Bruno's excitement, particularly when a few minutes later I discerned a well-made catamaran, with several human figures lying prostrate upon it!
With it, along with time and patience, they might have accomplished the task; but time to them was too precious to be so wasted; and as to patience, circumstanced as they were, it could scarcely be expected. They stood in great need of a cooking-stove. There was nothing on board the Catamaran that could be used as a substitute.
As soon as he had fully considered it in his own mind, the sailor, aided by Snowball and Little William, proceeded to rig the Catamaran, and by the close of the third day from the commencement of their labours a tall mast stood up out of the centre of that curious craft, midships between stem and stern, with boom and guy, and a broad sail hanging loosely along its yard, ready to be spread to the first breath of wind that might blow westward over the ocean.
It had been agreed upon that the craft should be left to choose its own track; or rather, that which the wind might select for it. Guided by the breath of heaven, and by that alone, did the Catamaran continue her course. How much way she made thus left alone to herself is not written down in her "log."
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