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Yamba, of course, accompanied me, as also did my dog, and we were escorted across the bay by a host of my native friends in their catamarans. I pitched upon a fine bold spot for our dwelling-place, but the blacks assured me that we would find it uncomfortably cold and windy, to say nothing about the loneliness, which I could not but feel after so much intercourse with the friendly natives.
There was a good supply of guns and ammunition on board, and it would have been an easy matter for me to have sunk one or two of the native catamarans, which are mere primitive rafts or floats, and so cooled their enthusiasm a bit; but I refrained, on reflecting that I should not gain anything by this action.
In the morning I saw a great fleet of catamarans putting off from the mainland, and in a very short time between fifty and sixty natives joined our party on the island. Then followed the usual greetings and comical expressions of amazement of course, at the sight of me, my boat, and everything in it.
Next they obtained fire by rubbing together two pieces of a certain kind of wood; and as the smoke ascended we saw answering smoke- signals from the opposite shore. The smoke was allowed to ascend in puffs which were regulated by the manipulation of boughs. These catamarans merely consisted of a broad plank with a stick placed transversely at the prow, on which the black placed his feet.
The catamarans rode over the sea better than was expected, although at times we scarcely expected to see another sunrise. When day at length broke, we were still in sight of each other, but there was no abatement in the gale, nor could land anywhere be discerned.
Early on a Sunday morning the mist-covered hills of Ceylon took form on the starboard bow; and, later on, a palm-grown shore and natives in catamarans. Then the house-tops, the breakwater and the shipping of Colombo emerged from the luxurious forest and curving shores.
"Wrote a letter to 'Yacht' about invention of paper-boats." In October he began to write for "Le Yacht" a history of catamarans, which was highly appreciated by the readers of that paper. Ernest George's etchings. He also worked at the autobiography. It was a real sorrow for my husband to hear that in consequence of the demise of Mr.
The fish were so near the raft, that every movement made by them could be easily observed, even to the glancing of their silvery irides, and those who observed them could see that they were looking aloft. Up went the eyes of the Catamarans, both anglers and idlers turning their glances towards the sky.
The voyage between Betto's group and Rancocus Island was made in the Neshamony, so far as the human portion of the freight was concerned, The catamarans and canoes, however, came on with the other animals, and all the utensils and stores. The appearance of Rancocus Island created quite as much astonishment among the native mariners, as had that of the horses, cows, &c.
He was seen darting towards it with open beak, his talons cruelly extended for its capture; but, notwithstanding all his activity, the white object that shot glittering past him, and dropped into the sea far beyond, proclaimed to the Catamarans that the Exocetus had escaped.
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