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In the course of the night, being constantly wet with the sea, we suffered much cold and shiverings. Saturday 6. At daylight I found that some of the clams which had been hung up to dry for sea-store were stolen; but everyone solemnly denied having any knowledge of it. This forenoon we saw a gannet, a sand-lark and some water-snakes which in general were from two or three feet long.
South-West 1/2 West 11 Miles from this Head is a very small Island which we named Gannet Island, on account of the Great Number of these Birds we saw upon it.
Sailing the sea on a cruise was like the gazing at wonderful colours of a Western sky: an oblivion of earthly dates and obligations. What mattered it that there were gales in August? She loved the sea, and the stinging salt spray, and circling gull and plunging gannet, the sun on the waves, and the torn cloud.
'I will close the door, he said, retiring softly. 'Do not, my lord. The rug was over her, up to her throat, and her eyes were shut. He looked back through the doorway in going out. She was asleep. 'Some delirium. Gannet of good hope. All in the usual course'; he transmitted intelligence to his wife. A strong desire for wine at his dinner-table warned him of something wrong with his iron nerves.
In four days they arrived at Port Royal; and Paul and his companions obtained the greatest credit for the way in which they had fought one privateer and preserved their own prize from destruction. The brig which had been captured by the Gannet was a fine new vessel, mounting sixteen guns, and almost a match for the Gannet herself.
The Gannet still continued in company with the Diamond, and True Blue's chief unhappiness arose at not being allowed to join the various cutting-out expeditions in which the crews of the two ships were engaged.
On the Hillsborough, it seemed to me that white specimens predominated; but possibly that was because they were so much more conspicuous. Sunlight favors the white feather; no other color shows so quickly or so far. If you are on the beach and catch sight of a bird far out at sea, a gull or a tern, a gannet or a loon, it is invariably the white parts that are seen first.
I will give you any rating you like to select in the ship." "Thank you, sir, heartily," answered True Blue; "but I belong to the Gannet, and have no right to desert her, and have all my best friends aboard her. I would rather be put ashore to join her as soon as I can." "But I cannot take any man's word for such a statement," answered the Captain.
"We shall starve," muttered I. As I said this, one of the male birds returned from the sea with a large fish, of which Mrs Reichardt took possession, as she had seen me do, and the gannet flew away again to obtain more. Immediately afterwards, the other two birds returned with fish, which were in a like way secured by my companion. "See how unjust and ungrateful you are," observed she.
With such care, and with so abundant nourishment, he throve amazingly, outstripping in growth all the other youngsters of his age along the ledges. His terror quickly passed away from him; but the results of the lesson long remained, in the vigilance with which his glance would sweep the sky, and question every approach of wings more wide than those of gull or gannet.
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