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Updated: June 29, 2025
Situated as they are, the gig's people have no desire to burden themselves with Fuegian bric-a-brac, and have consented to the traffic only for the sake of keeping on good terms with the traffickers. But it has become tiresome, and Captain Gancy, eager to be off, orders oars out, the wind having quite died away.
Alas! all to no purpose. One morning at daybreak, while on the lookout with his glass, Captain Gancy sees coming eastward, along the arm, a fleet of canoes crowded with people, to all appearance the same craft encountered in Whale-boat Sound. Believing that they are the same, he cries out in a voice that quivers, despite his efforts to keep it firm, "There they are at last!
As the last boat-load of them disappears around the point of rocks, Captain Gancy fervently exclaims, "Again we may thank the Lord for deliverance!" As soon as they are convinced that the canoes are gone for good, Seagriff counsels immediate setting out on the journey so unexpectedly delayed. It is now noon, and it may be night ere they reach their destination.
Well, Ned Gancy ain't going to stand by an' look on at that; he pitches in with the minority." And so saying, the young American placed himself in a pugilistic attitude by the side of Henry Chester. This accession of strength to the assailed party put a different face on the matter, the assailants evidently being cowed, despite their superiority of numbers.
Indeed, some of the old men are themselves more like monkeys than human beings, reminding Captain Gancy of the time when he was once beset in a South African kloof, or ravine, by a troop of barking and gibbering dog-faced baboons. For a time all is turmoil and confusion, with doubting fear on the part of the white people, who cannot tell what is to be the issue.
I guess ye'd better all stay hyar till I give it a trial." "Oh, it's nothing, Chips," says young Gancy, "we can easily swarm up." He would willingly take the lead himself, but is lending a hand to his mother; while, in like manner, Henry Chester is entrusted with the care of Leoline a duty he would be loth to transfer to another.
Not long does Captain Gancy lament the loss of his fine vessel and valuable cargo. In the face and fear of a far greater loss his own life and the lives of his companions there is no time for vain regrets. The storm is still in full fury; the winds and the waves are as high as ever, and their boat is threatened with the fate of the barque.
On the poop-deck is Captain Gancy himself, consulting a small chart, and filled with anxiety as at intervals looking towards the companion-ladder he there sees his wife and daughter, for he knows his vessel to be in danger and his dear ones as well. A glance at the barque reveals that she has been on a long voyage.
So do the others, all of whom are now standing on the defensive. Even Mrs Gancy and Leoline have armed themselves, and come out of the tent, determined to take part in the life-and-death conflict that seems inevitable. The sailor's wife and daughter both have braved danger ere now, and, though never one like this, they will meet it undaunted.
He has not entirely forgotten the foreign tongue taught him on board the Beagle and during a year's residence in England; while something he remembers also something better the kindness there shown him and the gratitude due for it. He is paying the debt now as best he can, and on this account Captain Gancy has consented to make a brief stop at the fishing-station.
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