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Updated: May 18, 2025
All I know is, that I've seed frigates a-standing in the air, as them be now, making way neyther to windart or leuart; f'r all that I didn't believe they was asleep. I kud see thar forked tails openin' and closin' jist like the blades o' a pair o' shears; and that inclined me to think they war wide awake all the time. If they was asleep, how kud they a-kep waggin' thar tails?
They can't see us no more than we can them; anyhow, till it come mornin'. If we could hear the sound again so as to make out the direction. I didn't notice that." "I did," interrupted William. "Both the voices I heard were out this way." The boy pointed to leeward. "To leuart, you think they wur?" "I'm sure they came from that quarter." "That be curious, hows'ever," said the sailor.
It was nothing more than he had prepared himself to expect, when the Coromantee, almost as soon as he had steadied himself astride of the water-cask, shouted, in a loud voice "The Cat'maran! the Cat'maran!" "Where?" cried the sailor. "To leuart?" "Dead in dat same direcshun." "How fur, cookey? how fur?"
There bean't even the glimmer o' a star in the sky; and if there wur we couldn't make much o' it; since the north star bean't seen down in these latitudes. Thee be sure the sound come from leuart?" "O, I am quite sure of it, Ben; the voices came up the wind." "Then we'd best go the same way and gie 'em as wide a berth as possible. Look alive, lad!
"If't be them on the big raft they must a passed us, or else the wind must a veered round, for we've been to leuart o' them ever since partin' wi' 'em. Could the wind a gone round I wonder? Like enough. It be queer, and it's blowing from the west in this part o' the Atlantic! 'Tan't possible to say what point it be in, hows'ever, not without a compass.
In any case she be sure to be lying to leuart o' us; and, without the sail, she won't drift faster than we can swim, nor yet so fast. Let us do the best we can to make a mile or two's leeway; an' then we'll know whether the old Cat's still crawling about, or whether she's gin us the slip altogether. That's the best thing we can do, ain't it?" "De berry bess, Massa Brace.
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