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"Captain Jason Daggett," showing himself more plainly, by moving out of the line of the main-rigging. "I had the pleasure of seeing you when I was on the P'int, looking after my uncle's dunnage, you may remember, Captain Gar'ner. 'T was but the other day, and you are not likely to have forgotten my visit."
As soon as I heard Squire Craft, who was down here from Riverhead on that 'ere very business, talk so much about seals, I know'd Captain Gar'ner must have suthin' to do with the matter. The deacon's very heart was in the schooner and her v'y'ge, and I think it was the craft that finished him, in the end."
So you've brought the schooner back, a'ter all, Gar'ner, and will disapp'int the Sag Harbour ship-owners, who have been all along foretelling that we should never see her ag'in: brought her back ha! Gar'ner?" "Only in part, Deacon Pratt. We have had good luck and bad luck since we left you, and have only brought home the best part of the craft."
"However, there are islands, captain Gar'ner, that are better off still, and I hope you will live to find them." "Is our young friend to sail in the Sea Lion in quest of any such?" inquired the pastor, a little curiously. The deacon now repented him of the allusion. But his heart had warmed with the subject, and the rum-and-water had unlocked some of its wards.
If we can get off the island at all and return safe to those who, I much fear, are now mourning us as dead, we shall have great reason to thank God." "A few skins would do no great harm, Gar'ner, even to a craft cut down and reduced." "We have more cargo now than we shall be able to take with us. Quite one half of all our skins must be left behind us, and all of the oil.
The chart of the group had no latitude or longitude, but just placed each island with its bearings and distances from the other islands. It was no help in finding the place, which might be in one hemisphere as well as in the other." "It was, then, the mark of the obliteration " "Marks, if you please, Captain Gar'ner," interrupted the other, significantly.
Then, each and all on us is at liberty to do as he pleases. But, the chart is in my chest, and not only the islands, but the key, is so plainly laid down, that any mariner could find 'em. With that chest, however, I cannot part so long as I live. Get me well, and I will sail in the Sea Lion, and tell your captain Gar'ner all he will have occasion to know.
It is much warmer within doors, than it is in the open air, fire or no fire." "There are many reasons for that, Captain Gar'ner," answered the mate. "So many bodies in so small a space, the shelter from the wind and outer air, and the snow banks, all help us. I think we shall find the thermometer indoors at a pretty comfortable figure this morning."
Whittle to preach against the sin of covetousness; it does gain so much ground in Ameriky! The whole church should lift its voice against it, or it will shortly lift its voice against the church. To think of them Daggetts' fitting out a schooner to follow my craft about the 'arth in this unheard-of manner; just as if she was a pilot-boat, and young Gar'ner a pilot!
Wasn't it for this, Captain Gar'ner, there's many a craft that comes into these seas that would never find its way out of 'em; and many a bold sailor, with a heart boiling over with fun and frolic, that would be frozen to an ice-cicle every year!" Gardiner felt the justice of this remark, and easily pardoned its familiarity for its truth.
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