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Sometimes from the breezy fore-deck we scanned the horizon for the ships that rarely appeared, and sometimes sought a snug corner aft and watched the swift-winged gulls, the quivering log line, the smoke clouds and their shadows, or the widening streak of water disturbed by the revolving screw. "How rapidly the week has passed," said a friend on the evening of the twelfth of February. "Listen!
The schooner came on like a racehorse. While yet a great way off a puff of smoke balled out on his fore-deck and disappeared before the report reached us. "That's blank to tell us to stop. I must have more to justify me than that," said the captain, and held on.
Have the Dutchman sign them on if they are able hands." He went down the ladder again to the fore-deck, and I went down to my stateroom to see that my baggage was safe. "Smart job, my man; smart job!" I heard the Rev. Luther Meeker saying as I stepped into the passage. He was in the stateroom next to mine, but the door was open. "Who's that?" asked somebody cautiously.
We contented ourselves with a special dinner, followed by coffee, liqueurs, and cigars. Coffee was served on the fore-deck, where by moving a number of the dogs we had contrived to get a few square yards of space. There was no lack of entertainment.
They heard the thud of his feet as he alit on her short fore-deck, and an instant later, as he leaned over the stem and gripped Dr. Glasson's coat-collar, the light of the bobbing lantern showed them his face. It was Sam Bossom. He had lifted the Doctor waist-high from the water before the other helpers sprang on board and completed the rescue.
This alone was sufficient to identify her beyond question as the convict-ship of which they were in search; but if further evidence had been needed it was to be found in the "pen" a stout, substantially built wooden structure of closely set palings, about ten feet high, that occupied nearly the whole of the fore-deck, except a narrow alley-way on each side of it to allow of the passage of the crew fore and aft, and which included the great main hatchway, the covers of which had been replaced by a stout grating, with a small aperture in it just large enough for a man to squeeze through, and at which a soldier with a loaded rifle stood guard.
Putting on my glittering armor and taking in my hands my two long spears, I went upon the ship's fore-deck, for thence I looked for the first sight of Scylla of the rocks, who brought my men disaster. Nowhere could I descry her; I tried my eyes with searching up and down the dusky cliff.
There, on the fore-deck of the prau, old Lingard found her under a heap of dead and dying pirates, and had her carried on the poop of the Flash before the Malay craft was set on fire and sent adrift.
Indeed, within a few minutes, the immigrants on the fore-deck were shouting, "Dolphins!" The gentlemen could not for any length of time avoid Ingigerd. "Theridium triste, the gallows spider, you know," said Wilhelm, as they approached her. "How so?" said Frederick, slightly startled. "You know what a gallows spider does near an ant nest.
Before the end of the week everything was landed. The donkey engine on the Ida's fore-deck clanked and snorted. Down in the hold the sweating sailors toiled. Packing-cases, great and small, huge bales and brass-studded trunks were hoisted high, swung clear of the ship's bulwarks and lowered, with much rattling of chains and gear, into the waiting boats.
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