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Updated: June 15, 2025
Some perception of his hesitation must have come to her; her words were strong with insistence and wistful with reproach. "You said you would go and fetch her in to me before I die." Then Caius put back the dress she held on the rusty peg where it had hung for so long. "I am a man," he said. "I can swim without life-preservers. I will go and try to bring the girl back to you.
Why did the body of the alligator float? It was swollen inflated with gases. Ha! "An idea shot suddenly through my mind one of those brilliant ideas, the children of necessity. I thought of the floating alligator, of its intestines what if I inflated them? Yes, yes! buoys and bladders, floats and life-preservers! that was the thought.
Has it sprung a leak?" asked Mr. Tarbill, for he saw that something was troubling the commander. "No, we are safe yet," replied Mr. Spark gravely. "But I think you had better put on life-preservers." "Why?" asked Bob, beginning to feel a nameless fear. "We are approaching a dangerous reef. If this wind holds we can barely wear off enough to pass it.
Suddenly, when she was partly filled with water, she capsized. We clung to the life-line, which unhitched forward. "Of course we expected she would go down; but she did not for several hours. We had our life-preservers on, and we made fast the lines forward, which saved us from being washed off the bottom of the vessel.
When they had crossed the Atlantic they had been careful to inflate the four spare inner tubes of their landing wheels, as these would make capital life-preservers in case the flyers were thrown into the sea; and one of the last things they did before leaving Aden was to see that the tubes were still inflated.
Cork life-preservers of the best quality were provided, and the order was for each man to wear his whenever in rough or uncertain water. All stores and provisions were packed in water-tight rubber bags, made like ocean mail-sacks, expressly for the purpose. The expedition was thus well provided.
In other words, it depended on the circumstances whether it was bad or not. When standing on the shore, picking a channel, it appeared to be a moderately bad rapid, in which a person, aided with life-preservers, should have little difficulty in keeping on top, at least half the time.
Added to these was Sandy's private larder, consisting of several loaves of bread, a bag of apples, and some canned meat. The other end of the boat was utilized as a bedroom, a couple of life-preservers serving as the bed, and his own bundle of personal belongings doing duty as a pillow.
"Our only chance is to jump overboard this very minute, before the sea is full of the poor fellows. They'll begin to go over the ship's side and will kaap it up until the thing is burned up." "It's time then that we hunted our life-preservers," said Howard. "Git out wid yer life-presarvers!" impatiently exclaimed Tim. "Didn't me uncle wear one of 'em for six months, and then die with the faver!
Some accident occurred, possibly the breaking of a rowlock, and they were carried into a rapid. McPherson's men found it necessary to cross their cattle back and forth, but always took the wise precaution to have on some life-preservers. The cork preservers hung in the blacksmith shop, where they could easily be reached at a moment's notice.
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