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Updated: July 28, 2025
When he had made a lodging for himself, and had suffered the misfortune of losing the basket containing his provisions, Gilliatt considered his difficulties. In order to raise the engine of the Durande from the wreck in which it was three-fourths buried, with any chance of success in order to accomplish a salvage in such a place and such a season, it seemed almost necessary to be a legion of men.
"Plates, about five-eighths of an inch; frames, like railroad iron." "This hull is a shell! We won't get much salvage. Get up some kind of distress signal, Boston." Somehow the doctor was now the master-spirit. A flag was nailed to the mast, union down, to be blown to pieces with the first breeze; then another, and another, until the flag locker was exhausted.
"Down the Malay Archipelago I learned something about tides, spittin' overboard from salvage craft...." He stood upright. "Well, sir, we'd better get to business. These gentlemen here are the brains of the party" he nodded at the group aft.
There were frozen legs and ruined eyes; there was pneumonia so swift and virulent that even the antibiotics they managed to salvage could not stop it; there was near-starvation but they were kept alive, until the winds began to die, and they walked out of their holes in the ground to see the ruins of their first village. From that winter on, nobody considered the Dusties funny any more.
This was afterwards shipped at Macao in a Portuguese ship, called the Queen of Angels, commanded by Don Francisco de la Vero. This ship was unfortunately burnt at Rio de Janeiro, on the coast of Brazil, on the 6th June, 1722; so that the owners, after deducting salvage, only received £1800.
Although you didn't get all the gold and lost the valuable gum in the lazaret?" Cartwright's eyes twinkled. "I've some grounds for satisfaction, and I know when to stop! But perhaps I'd better be as frank as is needful. Very well! I get salvage on some of the gold. The rest is under the surf and nobody will open the boxes now. The thing's done with."
'It sounds a fair sort of prayer; better than some I've heard, he allowed, as he sat down again. 'I don't believe for one, he went on, 'that Saint Michael is passionately interested in wiping out either English or askaris or Germans. It's surely better to pray about him like you prayed. I should think the negative work appeals to him more than the positive, the salvage more than the blotting.
The captain of the freight boat was a thrifty Scotchman whose ship was traveling with a light cargo, and he was not, therefore, averse to taking on a tow. But the thought of salvage had caused him to ask a high price for the service and Monty, after a futile attempt at bargaining, had agreed.
"A wreck!" shouted Jacky, leaping for his jacket. "A wreck! A wreck!" Distraction seized the skipper. "'Tis a wreck!" he roared. "My boots, lads! Wreck! Wreck!" We lads went mad. No steamer had been wrecked on the coast in our time. There were deeds to do! There was salvage to win! "Wreck!" we screamed. "Wreck! Wreck! Wreck!" Then out we four ran. It was after dark. The vault was black.
Just as furtively the boys were exploring into pockets, but though they brought forth a plentiful salvage of the anomalous treasure usually to be found in school-boys' pockets, the display of "change" was pathetic. Raymond had a quarter, and that was more than anyone else turned out. The conductor impatiently repeated: "Tickets, please!"
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