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"No bottom yet, sir," reported the stroke-oar at frequent intervals; and at each report the coxswain starboarded an extra half-point or so, until at length the boat's nose was pointing straight for the mouth of the creek, and at every stroke of the oars the fiendish uproar of horns, tom-toms, and shouting or chanting, whichever it was seemed to come to our ears more distinctly, and with more ominous import.
"Then drive it is." Captain Davenport evidenced his intention of descending to the deck. "We've missed Mangareva. God knows where the next land is. I wish I'd held her up that other half-point," he confessed a moment later. "This cursed current plays the devil with a navigator." "The old navigators called the Paumotus the Dangerous Archipelago," McCoy said, when they had regained the poop.
The sloop, which had yawed and lost some headway during this interlude, now struck her stride again, and drove along with her nose held steady, a full half-point closer to the wind than had been possible before. Job perceived this and loosed one hand long enough to strike Jeremy a mighty blow on the back. "She works, boy!" he cried. "And at this gait we'll catch them before noon!"
He simply couldn't admit any victory for the rival not until it was actually won. "Swing a half-point off port bow, Eph steady, now!" breathed the young skipper, intensely. Down below, Hal Hastings was performing as near to wonders as was possible with a gasoline engine. Jacob Farnum stood just inside the conning tower, prepared to rush below with any other orders.
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