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That one was Lilly Lalee. After launching the kit, little William did not think of surrendering himself to inaction. He bethought him that something more should be done, that some other waifs should be turned adrift from the Catamaran, which, by getting into the way of the swimmers, might offer them an additional chance of support. What next? A plank? No; a cask, one of the empty water-casks?
It caused such excitement in the minds of the motley crew all of them suffering from extreme thirst that, without further hesitancy, they bent eagerly to their oars, putting forth the utmost effort of their strength in chase of the Catamaran. The Chase. Half pulling, half trusting to the sail, in a few seconds they were alongside the carcass of the cachalot.
They were evidently in chase of him, with as much eagerness as he was in chase of the Catamaran. The wretched man neither saw nor thought of them. Even had he seen them it is questionable whether he would have made any attempt to escape from them. They would, in all likelihood, have appeared a part of the fearful phantasmagoria already filling his brain.
Besides blowing in the desired direction, it kept steady and continuous, never rising above a gentle breeze, nor again returning to that calm from which they had just escaped, and the recurrence of which, to the captain of the Catamaran, would have been almost as unwelcome as a gale.
"Well, we will go back and have a look at it," said Leslie; and, bearing up for a moment and then putting his helm down, he tacked, bringing the catamaran round in such a manner as to pass back over practically the same ground as before.
Their customary night-watch had a twofold object: to hold the Catamaran to her course, and to keep a lookout over the sea, the latter having reference to the chance if seeing a sail. On this particular night their vigil, had it been kept, might have had a threefold purpose: for it is not to be forgotten that they were still not so very far from their late pursuers.
He was heard telling them that he saw both food and water in possession of the fugitives a cask of the latter, as he stated, being lashed to the Catamaran. It need scarce be said that the statement whether true or fallacious, acted as a stimulus to his comrades at the oar. The word "water" was music to their ears; and, on hearing it pronounced, one and all of them put forth their utmost strength.
She was a "twin boat:" that is, she had two hulls, like a "catamaran." They were flat-bottomed, so as to draw but little water. On these two hulls were laid a platform, which came to a point at the bow, and projected some distance forward of the stems of the two boats. On the main deck, no one would suspect that she was composed of two boats.
After a year he writes, "I have not written any poetry this whole summer. Old Mrs. Themis says that I shall not visit any more at the Miss Muses. I'll see the old catamaran hanged, though, but what I will, and I'll write a sonnet to my old shoe directly, out of mere desperation. Pity and sympathize with me."
This proposal was agreed to; Ben, before putting himself in a position for repose, giving Snowball the necessary directions as to the course in which the Catamaran was to be kept.
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