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"This is safer navigation for an officer of thy draught of water, than running about the bay, in a periagua. What may be the longitude, and where-a-way did you part company from the consorts?" "Sair, I valk in de vood for de plaisir, and I go on de bay for de parbleu, non!
"If the news in the creek be true," rejoined the unoffended owner of the periagua, "there will be other business for Captain Ludlow and the Coquette, before many days!" "Ah! having eaten all his meat and bread, the man will be obliged to victual his ship anew! 'Twere a pity so active a gentleman should keep a fast, in a brisk tide's-way.
"This cannot be the same, if indeed there be any on the coast. Is't known, your Honor, that the man is truly here?" "So goes a rumor; though so many idle tales have led me before to seek the smuggler where he was not, that I give but little faith to the report. The periagua has the wind more at west, and the cloud in the mouth of the Raritan is breaking into scud.
The windings of the river were such that it required a voyage of several leagues to reach its mouth. It would seem, from the narrative, that they reached a village at the mouth of the river on the 29th. Here they exchanged their large and heavy periagua, for two light canoes, with which to ascend against the swift current of the Mississippi.
"Duty has taken me into the Italian seas, more than once," answered Ludlow, half disposed to resent this familiarity, though too anxious to keep the periagua near, to quarrel with him who so evidently had produced the unexpected pleasure. "Then you know that, though a lady might fan a ship through the straits eastward, it needs a Levant breeze to bring her out again.
"Yonder boat begins to feel the wind, truly!" said Ludlow, suddenly losing all other interest in the appearance of the periagua which held Alida and her friends, and which, at that instant, shot out from beneath the cover of the hill into the broad opening of Raritan bay. "What think you of the time, my friend? a man of your years should speak with knowledge of the weather."
It has been said that the periagua was in motion, before our two adventurers succeeded in stepping on board.
When I had gone through this work I was extremely delighted with it. The boat was really much bigger than ever I saw a canoe or periagua, that was made of one tree, in my life. Many a weary stroke it had cost, you may be sure; and had I gotten it into the water, I make no question, but I should have begun the maddest voyage, and the most unlikely to be performed, that ever was undertaken.
Their retreat in the direction of the woods was completely cut off; and there appeared no alternative, but to make the best use they could of their heels, and if possible get on board the periagua. With this determination they rushed on over the sandbank, closely pursued by the peccaries.
The periagua was still three hundred yards distant. The Indians saw the chase, and knew the danger knew it so well, that it was not likely they would venture ashore to the rescue; and as for Pouchskin, he was unable to budge an inch even had there been no other means of saving his young masters. It was a moment of fearful apprehension for the faithful Pouchskin.
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