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Updated: May 10, 2025
Anyhow, I don't suppose there will be any lights, or if there are, they will likely be misplaced, to lure somebody to death." Now the commander went below and bent over the charts for perhaps the hundredth time. "About two miles off yet!" he muttered. The chart gave the bottom on the sandbar in front of the entrance as shell and hard sand.
I could close my eyes and see a black mass going down in the yellow water, with here and there a bullock drifting exhausted in the eddy, or heaps of bloated bodies piled up on a sandbar of the Valley River. And there, with my eyes wide open, was the drove spreading out along the hillside as it passed in between the two chestnut bar-posts.
They were opposite the head of a long bend near the end of a big sandbar, and skirting the edge of an eddy, near its foot. Terabon sprang into the gasolene launch, started the motor, and steered for the shelter of the west bank. In the quiet he and Rasba told each other what to do. Rasba ran out two big anchors with big mooring lines tied to them.
"You know what Bengalis are; that fellow'd do anything, brave any ordinary danger, rather than try to cross that sandbar again if he really came that way; which I am inclined to doubt. On the other hand, he's intelligent enough to know that a night like this in the dunes would kill him. Well, what then?" Rutton was not listening.
She put on a jacket, pinned on a cap, and together, in merry mood, they romped up the sandbar. It was all sand; there was not a log of timber, not a drift barrel, not a stick of wood anywhere as far as they could see.
They dried their boiled ham and had a feast, and after that they sat by the fire and expanded and glorified their midnight adventure until morning, for there was not a dry spot to sleep on, anywhere around. As the sun began to steal in upon the boys, drowsiness came over them, and they went out on the sandbar and lay down to sleep.
Once he caught up his big oars and began to row toward a number of little shanty-boats moored against a sandbar, close down to a wooded bank, only to find that the river current carried him away despite his most muscular endeavours, so he accepted it as a sign that he should not land there.
We shall have to anchor here until that time. That last stop of half an hour on the sandbar robs us of half a day's time." The delay at the bridge was provoking, but a greater test of the temper of the officers and patience of the passengers was to come. On Friday morning while at breakfast we felt a jar that caused the vessel suddenly to stop.
On the right, a prolongation of the harbor reached nearly half a mile beyond the town, ending in a small lagoon formed by a projecting sandbar, and known as the Barachois. Near this bar lay moored the little frigate "Aréthuse," under a gallant officer named Vauquelin.
He developed a burst of enthusiasm and ran quite briskly, overtaking her near some shallows where, because of a sandbar offshore, the waters were thin and bright. "Oh, look!" exclaimed Berenice, when he came up. "See, the fish! O-oh!" She dashed in to where a few feet offshore a small school of minnows as large as sardines were playing, silvery in the sun.
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