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"Throw it all aback," he cut in as at last he caught my idea. "Why, of course I do, Mr Grenvile, and thank'e for the hint. It'd be a precious sight more helpful than the kedge, and I'll have it done at once." And he started to go forward to call the men. "What about your cables?" said I. "Have you got them bent and an anchor ready to let go if she should happen to back off the bank?"
A kedge anchor, fastened to a stout hawser, was put on board, and as soon as it was sufficiently dark to make so comparatively small an object as a boat invisible to the hostile craft, she put off at right angles to the Good Intent's previous course, the hawser attached to the kedge being paid out as the boat drew away.
All the iron work was eaten away and the timbers badly decayed. He gave the signal, "kedge and buoy." The answer from above was "all-right," and soon after he grabbed a kedge that slowly and silently descended near him. Having fastened it to the wreck, he signaled "haul away," and was soon to the surface and helped aboard the yawl. When the helmet was removed he was very much exhausted.
"I told you to go and hoe those yams, and you neglected the duty to go fishing." "Yes, sir, go fishing; kedge terrupum." "Instead of doing your work." "Mass' Morgan, sah," began Pomp, in a tone of protest, but Morgan interrupted him. "Now then, how is it those yams are not hoed?" "Don't know, sah. Tell Hannibal hoe them." "You told Hannibal to hoe them your father?"
The vessel was anchored out in the bay, to sail at 2 P.M., when the tide was most favorable. I had a new chain for the anchor, and the captain said he wanted a kedge anchor for safety, so I ordered one from McCondery & Co., for $35, on condition that, without fail, they would have it on board before 2 P.M. We were all on board by 1 o'clock, waiting for the favorable tide, to start.
It required good nerves and some self-reliance to advance in the face of such a danger, and this so much the more, as the barbarians showed themselves in the greatest force on the northern range of rocks, which offered a good shelter for their persons, completely raked the channel, and, moreover, lay so near the spot where the kedge had been dropped, that one might have jerked a stone from the one to the other.
For this purpose we used a large kedge, with stout hawser for cable, never furling all the sails in case of a strong breeze suddenly springing up, which would cause us to drag. This anchoring was very comfortable.
"And where has he been hiding himself?" "He has been in Australia for several years, he says; went there directly after he left Kedge and Reck's that autumn." "Could you get him here, Taylor? I must see him. Tell me: what coloured hair has he?" "Red, sir; and plenty of it. He says he's doing very well over there, and has only come home for a short change.
The breeze failed, however, and through the rest of the night it was kedge and tow again, the Shannon and the Guerrière hanging on doggedly, confident of taking their quarry. Another day dawned, hot and windless, and the situation was unchanged. Other British ships had crawled or drifted nearer, but the Constitution was always just beyond range of their heavy guns.
We'll try for Bensersiel. Can't trust to a warp and kedge out here." 'An exciting run it was, across country, so to speak, over an unboomed watershed; but we had bearings from our morning's walk. Shoal water all the way and a hollow sea breaking everywhere.
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