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"Khrysoko," repeated Scott. "It pronounces well enough; but when you come to the spelling, that's another affair." "I could spell that with my eyes shut; for I used to cry so myself when I was a baby. Cry so, with a co on the end of it for a snapper. But I thought that bay was on the coast of Ireland, sou' sou'-west by nor' nor'-east from the Cove of Cork," added Felix.
I think it is highly probable that your parents are there, Letta, and as we have no particular reason for going anywhere else, and can't hope to make for England in a tub like this, we will just lay her head for Sarawak." This was accordingly done, their new course being nor'-east and by east.
You wonder what would happen if a storm caught your ship between those iron walls and a landward hurricane; and the captain tells you, when the wind sheers nor'-east, he always beats for open sea. It isn't the sea he fears. It is these rock ramparts and saw-tooth reefs sticking up through the lace fret. Suddenly you twist round a sharp angle of rock like the half closed leaf of a book.
"She was lighter than us, and of course she had the advantage of what wind there has been, though, thank goodness, that has been little enough!" "Away to the nor'-east, I suppose?" "Aye, aye, sir," said Mr Fosset. "The breeze, what there was, has been from the sou'-east and the current trends in the same direction." "Then if we steer east-nor'-east we ought to pick her up soon?"
"Nor'-east, half east!" he continued, referring to the direction in which the schooner was now heading: "If we are in luck we ought to come athwart the Indiaman again in about twenty minutes that is to say, if they have hove her to in order to transfer the prisoners." He pulled out his watch, noted the time, and replaced the watch in his pocket.
I shall never forget the surprise I got the first time I saw a whale. It was in the forenoon of a most splendid day, about a week after we arrived at that part of the ocean where we might expect to find fish. A light nor'-east breeze was blowing, but it scarcely ruffled the sea, as we crept slowly through the water with every stitch of canvas set.
This was followed by a loud clap of thunder, which, leaping from cliff to crag, reverberated among the mountains with a succession of crashes that died away in ominous mutterings. At the same time a blue line towards the nor'-east indicated an approaching squall. "Had we not better take in a reef, Ian?" asked the laird anxiously.
"It's of no use, sir," said Dale; "we can't save these." "True, Dale, true," said Mr Braidwood, in a quick, but quiet tone; "this block is doomed. Take your lads round to the nor'-east corner; we must try to prevent it spreading."
An' we ain't goin' to have such a 'eart-breakin' start, even if the cruiser clears away soon after two o'clock." "Where do you propose to make for?" "Where d'ye think, mister? Nor'-east by nor', to be sure, until we sight some homeward-bound ship." There was a pause.
The Defiance and Windsor, ever the most dilatory of our vessels, were at this time four miles astern. About ten o'clock, the wind then blowing east nor'-east, but very variable, the enemy tacked, and the admiral fetched within range of two of them, giving them his broadside and receiving from them many shrewd knocks.
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