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But the road is not straight, by any means, as shipmasters tell me; and I suppose Gar'ner must have gone, at the very least, 8000 miles to reach his latitude, to say nothing of a considerable distance of longitude to travel over, to the southward of Cape Horn." "It is a terrible distance to have a friend from us!" ejaculated Mary, though in a low, dejected tone.
"Heaven forbid!" exclaimed the deacon, as sharply as wasting lungs would allow "Heaven forbid! If Gar'ner his let that Daggett keep in his company an hour longer than was necessary, he has deserved to meet with shipwreck, though the loss always falls heaviest on the owners."
"But such was not the deacon's case, Squire Job," put in Baiting Joe, at once. "He did not sign the insterment because he was frightened, but was frightened because he signed the insterment. Let the boat go right eend foremost, squire." "Read the will, Captain Gar'ner, if you have it," said Mr. Job Pratt, with decision. "It is proper that we should know who is executor.
"These here fields are coming together, Captain Gar'ner, and our boat will soon be crushed unless we get it out of the water." Sure enough, a single glance behind him sufficed to assure the young master of the truth of this statement. The field he was on was slowly swinging, bringing its western margin in closer contact with the eastern edge of the floe that lay within it.
"I do believe that the wind has got round here to the north-east," said Roswell, as he paced the quarter-deck with Daggett, still holding in his hand the well wiped and dried sounding-rod, in readiness for another trial. "That last puff was right in our teeth!" "Not in our teeth, Gar'ner; no, not in my teeth," answered Daggett, "whatever it maybe in your'n.
"Certainly not, sir. Brazil is on the east side of the Andes, and Rio di Janeiro is its capital. The king of Portugal lives there now and has lived there as long as I can remember." "Yes, yes; I had forgotten. The Brazil Banks, where our whalers go, are in the Atlantic. But what can have taken Gar'ner into Rio, unless it be to spend more money!" "By reading the letter, sir, we shall soon know.
"I remember him very well saw him often while living, and helped to bury him when dead." "Well, our information came from him. He threw out several hints consarning sealing-grounds aboard the brig in which he came home; and you needn't be told, Gar'ner, that a hint of that kind is sartain to find its way through all the ports down east.
"How many of your people still remain, Daggett? tell us, that we may look for them, and attend to their wants." "I'm afraid, Gar'ner, they'll never want anything more in this life! The second mate and two of the hands were sitting in the cabin when I got into this berth, and I fear 't will be found that they're dead.
You must take good care, Gar'ner, and not run the schooner on it" with a small chuckling laugh, such as a man little accustomed to this species of indulgence uses, when in high good-humour. "I am not rich enough to buy and fit out Sea Lions for you to cast 'em away." "That's a high latitude, deacon, to carry a craft into. Cook, himself, fell short of that, somewhat!"
Hazard, what is the news of the anchor?" "We are short, sir, and only wait for orders to go on, and get clear of the ground." "Trip, at once, sir; and so farewell to America or to this end of it, at least." "Then the keys, they tell me, are dangerous navigation, Gar'ner, and a body needs have all his eyes about him."
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