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It took the tops off those rollers and pelted them at us, and the wind seemed to yell in triumph when the yacht was buried in the whirlpools in which she dived headlong. All through the night we raced before it, and through the following day The Waif never paused for an instant in her mad race to the eastward.
All the water blushed as he got up; the deck was all red; the steersman gave his helm to another, and prostrated himself on the deck, and bowed his head eastward, and praised the Maker of the sun: it shone on his white turban as he was kneeling, and gilt up his bronzed face, and sent his blue shadow over the glowing deck.
Everything except inhabitants. No one lives there." "Why not? Is this really true?" "True as gospel. I saw it myself. I walked through the deserted streets. And a rather uncanny feeling it gave me, too." "Was it unhealthy? Why did the people leave?" "I haven't the vaguest idea," said Smith; and as he answered he raised his arm to point eastward along the street they had that moment reached.
Then the wind changed, and, springing up from the south, drove them wearily back once more in their tracks, and then bore them eastward. For another week they drove before the breeze, feeding on the cocoa-nuts. But the water in the calabashes was gone.
It was too late to hope to do so, when the wind, coming round to the eastward, began to blow a perfect hurricane. My father then hoped to find shelter within the coral reefs which ran along the coast at a distance of from five to a dozen miles, on which Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavour, was nearly cast away, in his first voyage. Soon after daybreak, the hurricane came down with redoubled fury.
He stood up and beheld the sun, a great ball of blinding gold, setting upon a tumbled sea of gold-edged crimson and purple clouds, strange and wonderful beyond imagining. Eastward cloud-land stretched for ever, darkling blue, and it seemed to Bert the whole round hemisphere of the world was under his eyes.
Five minutes later the girl came out, the old housekeeper accompanying her to the door, the car emerged from the lane, Zara el-Khala entered it and was driven away. I could see no one seated beside the chauffeur. I started my "Indian" and leapt in pursuit. As I had anticipated, the route was Eastward, and I found myself traversing familiar ground.
After running on this course for some distance, they found that she was then hauled up to the northward. From this she appeared to deviate but slightly, sometimes a point or two to the eastward, and sometimes to the westward. They thus surmised that she was threading her way between reefs with which the pirates must have been well acquainted.
"I transmit a statement of the force I think necessary to the eastward of Carthagena for performing the services intrusted to my care, and when I get the lists I shall apportion them as far as their number will allow, and my judgment will admit." "I hope the Board will consider this as not wishing to alter any arrangement of theirs, but as a measure absolutely necessary."
Toward afternoon, Ravenslee was trundling light-heartedly eastward, his barrow emptied to the last peanut.
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