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Updated: May 12, 2025
I shrieked, turning to see if my fair companion had been hit. "Keep cool, Excellency," urged the Finn. "See, right away there in the shadow. We might trick them, for the patrol-boat will be at the head of the river waiting to cut us off." Again the guards fired upon us, but in the darkness their aim was faulty.
"Sure, the dato," replied the man evasively, and Piang turned and started off through the jungle, following a well defined path. "Plucky kid, that," said the sailor who pushed off. "Wonder if he knows what's up? Half the time they don't tell the poor devils. Row over toward the patrol-boat, and I'll warn them to watch carefully to-night in case he tries to escape. Piang was in a great hurry.
She had approached within a mile or two of the pre-arranged landing-place when over the mangroves had flared the blinding white light of a Spanish patrol-boat; like a thief surprised at his work the tramp had turned tail and fled, never pausing until she lay safe among the Bahama Banks. Now she was feeling her way back, some distance to the westward. Major Ramos was on the bridge with the captain.
For by this time the patrol-boat with the carbineers had reached the steamer's side and a boarding-ladder had been thrown across her quarter. And Blake began to comprehend that he was in the most undesirable of situations. He could hear the repeated clang of the engine-room telegraph and Tankred's frenzied and ineffectual bellow of "Full steam ahead! For the love o' Christ, full ahead down there!"
Our copra was of the best; there were pearls to be had in certain waters if you could bribe or fight your way to them; and large groups of natives occasionally disappeared over night from one of the surrounding islands. Naapu was, you might say, the clasp of a necklace. How could we be expected to know what went on in the rest of the string with one leaky patrol-boat to ride those seas?
Convoy work is more interesting and more exciting than the round of patrol. The advantage of the convoy over the picking up and escorting of a merchantman by a patrol-boat is that in the convoy from six to ten destroyers can protect from ten to thirty merchantmen, while under the patrol system one destroyer watches one merchant craft.
The river narrows here, and goes at a great pace. It is still of a vast width one of the largest rivers in Europe. The mist was very thick here. "Listen!" whispered Kosmaroff, suddenly. And they heard the low, regular thud of oars. It was the patrol-boat. Almost immediately a voice, startlingly near, called upon them to halt. They crouched low in the boat.
His practised eyes discerned the shadowy forms of watchers squatting along the beach; beyond, the patrol-boat moved about restlessly, and in the distance twinkled the lights of Zamboanga. "If I could only get past the lepers and the boat, I could swim back," thought Piang, and he looked with longing at the oily smoothness of the water.
If you fail, and you are perilously like to fail, you will be sure to have a man or two of your companions shot, maybe yourself obliged to pistol certain people, and in the end fetch up at Tahiti, prisoner in a French patrol-boat. Observe that B. 300 is spoken of as still open. It is so, for the reason that the Three Black Crows did not pull it off.
The French are using many of them. Another larger type of chaser, corresponding to the destroyer, is the patrol-boat of the Eagle class built at the plant of Henry Ford in Detroit. The most recent battleships laid down by the navy are the largest ever attempted.
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