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When I stop the engines I shall jerk this cord, and he will thus get the signal to cut the lashing which will be holding the forward anchor. He will then jump overboard and swim to the four-oared dingy, which we shall tow astern. The dingy is full of life-buoys, and is unsinkable. In it are rifles. It is to be held by two ropes, one made fast at her bow and one at her stern.
It was then one o'clock in the morning; the storm had broken up the road, and the night was so dark that I could not see anything within a yard ahead of me; the day was breaking when we arrived in Fusina. The boatmen threatened me with a fresh storm; but setting everything at defiance I took a four-oared boat, and reached my dwelling quite safe but shivering with cold and wet to the skin.
Had the mighty Duke, however, at that moment seen his Canadian cousin steering the four-oared boat, loaded with wheat, he might have felt but a very qualified admiration for the majesty of his stately demeanor and his nautical savoir faire.
It was then one o'clock in the morning; the storm had broken up the road, and the night was so dark that I could not see anything within a yard ahead of me; the day was breaking when we arrived in Fusina. The boatmen threatened me with a fresh storm; but setting everything at defiance I took a four-oared boat, and reached my dwelling quite safe but shivering with cold and wet to the skin.
When I told him No, he said she must have gone down then, and yet she "took up too," when she left there. "They must ha' thought better on't for some reason or another," said the Jack, "and gone down." "A four-oared galley, did you say?" said I. "A four," said the Jack, "and two sitters." "Did they come ashore here?" "They put in with a stone two-gallon jar for some beer.
If it was not for the look of things, I would be turning handsprings on the campus." "Ditto," added Sam. "Well, come on," said Songbird. And a few minutes later the four students were down at the boathouse, getting out one of the four-oared boats. "Say, Songbird, I should think this would put you in the rhyming fever," said Sam, as the four lads rowed out on the river.
My boat is an open four-oared one, 26 feet long, and about five wide, strong but light. She sails admirably with a common lug sail. I had one made last summer, very large, with two reefs, so that I can reduce it to as small a sail as I please. By 4 or 5 P.M. I neared Aruas, in the bay on the west side of Vanua Lava; the same crowd as usual on the beach, but I did not haul the boat up.
You and Porringer are to go to Godwyn's after that new sail for the Nancy. Sir Charles Carew has taken it into his head to run over to Accomac, and he's got to have a spick and span white rag to sail under. Hurry up, now! He wants to start by sun up, and I clean forgot to send for it last night. You're to be back within the hour, d' ye hear? Take the four-oared shallop.
It became too rough afterwards to make the return journey, and it was only this morning we saw them repassing towards the south-east in a terrible sea. A four-oared curagh with two men in her besides the rowers probably the Priest and the Doctor went first, followed by the three-oared curagh from the south island, which ran more danger.
The swift ones seemed to be all four-oared, and he knew that he must have a fleet, light vinta to elude the Dyaks. He spied a tiny white boat tied to a gilded post, and his heart nearly stopped beating when he read the name "Papita" on the bow. "Papita!" Piang scornfully whispered. "Papita, indeed!" His lip curled, and he glared through the rushes at the hideous Sicto.
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