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There was no possibility of regaining possession of any of these things. Even had they not adhered to the loadstone rock at too great a height to be reached, they adhered to it too closely to be detached. Hurliguerly was infuriated by the impossibility of recovering his knife, which he recognized at fifty feet above his head, and cried as he shook his clenched fist at the imperturbable monster,
Make them understand that we have time to return to the Falklands before the end of the fine season. Their reproaches must not be allowed to provide the captain with an excuse for turning back before the object is attained.” “Count on me, Mr. Jeorling, I will serve you to the best of my ability.” “You will not repent of doing so, Hurliguerly.
A man came creeping up to me, because the slope of the deck prevented him from holding himself upright: it was Hurliguerly, working himself along with his hands like a top-man on a yard. Stretched out at full length, my feet propped up against the jamb of the door, I held out my hand to the boatswain, and helped him, not without difficulty, to hoist himself up near me.
At this moment Hurliguerly approached me, looked attentively at the birds, and said, “I remark one thing, Mr. Jeorling.” “What is it, boatswain?” “That these birds do not fly so directly south as they did up to the present. Some of them are setting north.” “I have noticed the same fact.” “And I add, Mr. Jeorling, that those who are below there will come back without delay.”
Jeorling.” “And what obstacle?” “For instance, a continent stretching to the south and barring our way.” “A continent, Hurliguerly!” “I should not be at all surprised.” “And, in fact, there would be nothing surprising in it.” “As for the lands seen by Dirk Peters,” said the boatswain, “where the men of the Jane might have landed on one or another of them, I don’t believe in them.” “Why?”
“It is correct, and according as we get nearer one must really be blind not to adopt it!” “And what idea have you got?” “That it is not land which lies before us, Mr. Jeorling!” “What is it you are saying?” “Look attentively, putting one finger before your eyes look there out a starboard.” I did as Hurliguerly directed.
He considered it imprudent to give up a certainty for the uncertain, and he was backed by Endicott, who would in any case say “ditto” to his “Mr. Burke.” However, when the time came, Hurliguerly Conformed to the view of the majority with a good grace, and declared himself quite ready to set out, since we were all of that way of thinking.
“In any case it is a wonderful running aground,” replied the boatswain. “Instead of a good solid bottom, we have run aground in the air.” “Then I am right, Hurliguerly, in saying it is an unfortunate adventure.” “Unfortunate, truly, but in my opinion we should take warning by it.” “What warning?”
The truth was that nobody had penetrated that reserved nature. I may as well say at once that the person to whom I have alluded was the boatswain of the Halbrane, a man named Hurliguerly, who came from the Isle of Wight. A noteworthy detail was an ear-ring, one only, which hung from the lobe of his left ear.
“Very likely.” Hurliguerly, a good fellow at bottom, as I afterwards learned, discerned a little touch of irony in my tone; but he did not appear to do so; he was resolved to persevere in his patronage of me. And, indeed, his conversation could not be otherwise than profitable to me, for he was thoroughly acquainted with the Falkland Islands.
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