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Once more all was dark; but Alice and Nub continued to gaze in the direction where they had seen the sail, in the expectation that it would reappear. They waited in vain. They raised their voices together, and shouted, in the hope of being heard by those on board. Nub's voice, however, was weak and hollow; Alice's was almost as loud, and far shriller. "Dey cannot hear us," said Nub at length.
They had got the black half out of the water, when they saw several of the dark fins gliding towards him. How poor Walter shouted and shrieked! while he and the mate hauled away with all their might, every instant dreading to see the savage creatures tear at Nub's legs.
We soon get over de sea!" shouted Nub, endeavouring to raise his own spirits, as well as to encourage Alice. Thus they went on, but the mate could not help secretly feeling that the probability of their escaping was small indeed. The author must express the surprise he felt when he met with the account of Nub's wonderful ride on the zygaena.
It was nearly noon before Mr Shobbrok thought it safe to haul up to the raft, when the surgeon and Tidy, exerting all their strength, and with the mate and Nub's assistance, lifted the boatswain into the boat. The mate and Nub, with their young companions, cordially welcomed the surgeon and Tidy.
A portion of Nub's raft was composed of spars, one of which was found long enough to serve as a mast, instead of the two oars which had hitherto done duty as such; and they would now be of much use in impelling on the raft.
With all their strength they hauled away, when, just as Nub's feet were clear of the water, two enormous sharks rose with open mouths above the surface to seize him.
He was about to descend, when he was seen looking eagerly out on the other side of the whale. "What is it?" asked the mate. "A sail! a sail!" he shouted, clapping his hands, and dancing frantically about at a great risk of slipping off into the water. The mate and Walter quickly climbed up, anxious to ascertain the truth of Nub's assertion. "Dere! dere!" he exclaimed. "To the south.
She did what every truly wise person under such circumstances would do she commended herself and her companion to the care of God. She then took Nub's hand, who led her up the companion-ladder to the poop. Having obtained an axe, he immediately began to cut loose the hen-coops, spars, and gratings, and the lighter part of the woodwork of that part of the ship.
Now, if you sit on de deck, you put de tings in one corner and you sit round dem, and when dey jump up you catch dem and put dem back, and tell dem to stop till you want to eat dem." Nub's graphic description of the effects likely to be produced by the storm induced Alice and Walter to agree to his proposal, and they partook of their meal in a corner of the cabin.
Having performed his task, he secured the wood in a bundle, and hoisting it on his back, he climbed up again. During Nub's absence the mate and Walter looked anxiously around them, in the possibility of any boats being in sight.
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