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Updated: May 3, 2025
'This won't do, too much helm, said Davies, without looking up. 'Keep your stroke, but listen to me. Can you see the compass card? 'When I come forward. 'Take your time, and don't get flurried, but each time you come forward have a good look at it. The course is sou'-west half-west. You take the opposite, north-east half-east, and keep her stern on that.
The two craft kept abreast of each other till they had passed the mountain at the mouth of the river. The captain laid the course north-west half-west; and this was to be the course for half the distance to Point Cambodia, as he remarked to Louis, who was at his side observing the progress of the yacht. "How do you spell that word, Captain Scott?" asked Louis.
"I should say that it was identically the same. I will hail him." "North-west half-west," was the answer returned by the captain of the Delhi. "I make it the same," replied Scott. The cabin party were summoned to dinner at this time, and Clingman was called to the wheel. "What's the bill of fare to-day?" asked Scott as he took his seat at the table.
Bring the highest part of Thistle's Island to bear west, distant about six miles, and in twenty-two fathoms water, and a north-west half-west course will carry you through midway between the Horse-shoe Reef and the rocks which lay off the north-west end of Thistle's Island, and in the direct track for Cape Donnington.
We departed from hence on the 22nd of March, and on the 24th, in the evening, we saw some high land bearing north-west half-west, to the west of which we could see no land, though there appeared something like land bearing west a little southerly, but not being sure of it, I steered west- north-west all night, and kept going on with an easy sail, intending to coast along the shore at a distance.
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