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Then they laid off again, full and free on the starboard tack, for the Farralones, thirty miles away. By the time breakfast was cooked and eaten they picked up the Reindeer, which was hove to and working offshore to the south and west. The wheel was lashed down, and there was not a soul on deck. French Pete complained bitterly against such recklessness. "Dat is ze one fault of Red Nelson.
Now the Prince of Monaco's yacht lay at anchor and several others, hardly less handsome, rode snugly offshore, but with the enthusiasm of a connoisseur the tall gentleman disregarded all the rest and let his admiring gaze dwell on the Isis. The face was studiously altered. Where there had been a full mustache there was now only a thinly clipped line, waxed and uptilting in needle points.
At daybreak, as far as we could judge, we were about twenty miles offshore to the northward and westward of Little Bonny, in the track of any vessel bound for the West Indies. The night was dark with occasional rain squalls, when the heavens would open and the water come down in a flood.
The scene was again real and gloomy; the wind, northeast, and blowing a gale, sent feather-white spume along the coast; such a sea ran as would swamp an ill-appointed ship. As the sloop neared the entrance to the strait I observed that two great tide-races made ahead, one very close to the point of the land and one farther offshore.
The swordfish also feeds upon squid, which are at times abundant on our banks. To what extent this fish is amenable to the influences of temperature is an unsolved problem. We are met at the outset by the fact that they are frequently taken on trawl lines which are set at the depth of one hundred fathoms or more, on the offshore banks.
The tide will turn, perhaps, and at least the wind is offshore from the island now." "Sure, we'll go." Jean spoke for both at once. "Very well, then. And be careful. And you'd you'd better leave your auntie and her auntie alone, Jimmy they'll want to sleep." "You didn't hear us sayin' nothin', did you, Black Bart?" asked L'Olonnois, suspiciously. "By Jove!
If it comes offshore for five hours and it will wait for five hours before it does come offshore we shall be safe, inside, at one of your old haunts, Jean Lafitte; and back of us will lie fifty miles of barrier yon varlet may well have a care." "Yon varlet don't know where we have went," commented L'Olonnois in his alarming grammar. "No, that is true. The water leaves no trail.
They drifted up with the flood, and came back with the ebb-tide; but among them now were about forty others, unobserved by Captain Bunce, pacing his quarter-deck, but noted keenly by Mr. Todd. These forty drifted slowly to the offshore side of the brig and stopped, bobbing up and down on the crisp waves, even though the wind blew briskly with the tide, and they should have gone on with the others.
I don't want to be caught on that shore with a southerly wind, and that's the way it usually blows." "I can't wait," O'Neil declared. "A week's delay might ruin me. Rather than go on I'd swim ashore myself, without the horses." "I don't make the weather at Kyak Bay. Satan himself does that. Twenty miles offshore it may be calm, and inside it may be blowing a gale. That's due to the glaciers.
I could not trust that light line at the speed he swam, so I ran to release the strain. He led me inshore, then up-shore, and out toward sea again, all the time fighting with a couple of hundred feet of line out. Occasionally he would make a solid, thumping splash. He worked offshore some two hundred yards, where be led me in water half to my hips.
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