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Farther away south stretched the Darby Cape into blue water which looked like indigo, surmounted by long rolling breakers with combs of white, all being fully fourteen miles away. To the northwest of the sand-spit upon which Chinik is built, and which cuts Golovin Bay almost in two, the Fish River is also emptying itself, as is Keechawik Creek and other smaller streams.
I at once started out Constable Brockie and two natives with a whale boat, and found him on a sand-spit 10 miles away. He was brought in safely. They must have had tremendous endurance to get through at all.
This object was a tree not standing and growing, but a fallen tree dead, and divested of its leaves, its bark, and most of its branches. It lay upon the sand-spit where it had, no doubt, been deposited during the season of floods not exactly in the line of their flight, but some paces to the right of the track they would have followed in keeping on to the periagua.
It was likely the jaguar betook himself to a tree his usual mode of escape when surrounded by a herd of infuriated peccaries and, as a proof that he had done so, our travellers could hear the wild hogs still uttering their fierce grunts long after the boat had rounded the sand-spit, and was passing up the bend of the river.
Bristoe had turned over the dead body at the foot of the steps, and was peering down into the upturned face. "It's the Indian," he said grimly, "Sanchez must 'a' mistook him fer one of us, and shot the poor devil." "And Sanchez himself is out yonder on that sand-spit," and Keith pointed; then lifted his voice to make it carry across the stream. "Come on over, Doctor, you and Neb.
Both directed themselves towards the open sand-spit, in hopes of being able to reach the periagua which could be seen just drawing up to its point of the bar.
This riverbed's rich, Sir Humphrey, and ready for explorers and prospectors. But let's try that sand-bank yonder, farther out." The trio had to wade through a channel knee-deep to get to the long sand-spit, for the most part bare, but over a part of which an inch or two of clear water trickled.
One glorious morning we three Yamba, her husband, and myself repaired to the fatal lagoon that hemmed in my precious boat, and without more ado dragged it up the steep bank by means of rollers run on planks across the sand-spit, and then finally, with a tremendous splash and an excited hurrah from myself, it glided out into the water, a thing of meaning, of escape, and of freedom.
The river narrowed somewhat and the shores grew more rocky. At noon they lunched on another sand-spit. At sunset they saw a caribou. Night came. "Always the marionettes." Thus passed nine days like a dream to Bennie; and then came the first adventure.
And when a curse is wanted, give me David. Davy was a man of his hands, moreover, and so are you, friend. I watched ye fight on the sand-spit yonder; twelve to one is long enough odds for any man, and yet here's five o' the twelve wi' bones broke and never a one but wi' some mark o' your handiwork to show, which is vastly well, comrade. Joanna's choice is mine, messmate " "How d'ye mean?"
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