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Updated: May 23, 2025
The crushed marigold smell from the river closed them in, and the banks crept by in slow procession. The main channels of the Congo Kettle knew with a pilot's knowledge; but the canoe-men soon left these, and crept off into winding backwaters, with wire-rooted mangroves sprawling over the mud on their banks, and strange whispering beast-noises coming from behind the thickets of tropical greenery.
This, however, was the pilot's business; all we captains had to do was to avoid dangers from the guns of ships and forts; or, if we could not avoid them, to stand being fired at. The pilot we had engaged was full of confidence; so much so, that he refused to have any payment for his services until he had taken us in and out safely.
In the midst of the tempest, too, the assassin's hand tore the steersman from the helm, and with William of Orange the career of the infant republic was seemingly at an end, and all her guardian angels fled. But the ship continued to scud along before the storm, and the swelling canvas carried her safe without the pilot's help.
But they informed us that there was at the other side, eight or ten miles over, a pilot's dwelling. Two guineas tempted the sailors to risk the captain's displeasure, and once more embark to row me over.
The pilot will land you at Okra Point. You can hire a rig there to take you to the railroad." "But why?" demanded David indignantly. "Why was I kidnapped? What had I done? Who were those men who " From the pilot-house there was a sharp jangle of bells to the engine-room, and the speed of the tug slackened. "Come on," commanded the young man briskly. "The pilot's going ashore.
By merely disengaging the automatic pilot's wires here at the sector the work of a couple of seconds the airplane is ready for hand control." "How much does it weigh?" was the gentleman's next query. "A trifle less than a hundred pounds." "That oughtn't to handicap an airplane any." "Not a bit," said Paul. All in all, Mr.
However, guided by Morton, the corvette stood on, though even Hilda, who had the most perfect confidence in the pilot, as she saw the fierce, foaming waves dashing high up with a loud roar over the rocks to the very summit of the cliffs, could scarcely persuade herself that the ship was not rushing on destruction. The captain stood by the helmsman's side to repeat the pilot's orders.
There appears to be no first, second, or third class; everybody pays the same fare, and everybody wanders at his own sweet will into every nook and corner of the upper deck, perches himself on top of the paddle-boxes, loafs on the pilot's bridge, or reclines among the miscellaneous assortment of freight piled up in a confused heap on the fore-deck; in short, everybody seems perfectly free to follow the bent of his inclinations, except to penetrate behind the scenes of the aftmost deck, where, carefully hidden from the rude gaze of the male passengers by a canvas partition, the Moslem ladies have their little world of gossip and coffee, and fragrant cigarettes.
But what ails you, Tom? You seem bothered about something. Gee! you're as white as a ghost!" Lieutenant Beverly leaned forward and clutched the pilot's arm. "Anything gone wrong with the motors, Tom?" he demanded hoarsely. "I've just made a terrible discovery," replied Tom, trying to control himself. "The worst has happened, and I'm afraid we're in for a bad time!"
And, in these cases, somewhat as a pilot, when about losing sight of a coast, whose general trending he well knows, and which he desires shortly to return to again, but at some further point; like as this pilot stands by his compass, and takes the precise bearing of the cape at present visible, in order the more certainly to hit aright the remote, unseen headland, eventually to be visited: so does the fisherman, at his compass, with the whale; for after being chased, and diligently marked, through several hours of daylight, then, when night obscures the fish, the creature's future wake through the darkness is almost as established to the sagacious mind of the hunter, as the pilot's coast is to him.
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