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Updated: June 19, 2025
Then he and Ikey began to spell out the word that the seaman on the deck of the chaser was signaling in the same code Torrance had used. "Oi, oi!" yelled Ikey. "They're after you, Whistler!" "What's the next?" gasped Frenchy. Another name was not long in coming. "They want you, too." "Look, they are calling somebody else." Quickly the Navy Boys spelt out the next name.
There could be no doubt that the fleet was moving faster. "I take it," Prescott guessed, "that we've reached the part of the ocean, where greater speed is considered much more healthful." "The leading transport is signaling, and so are the destroyers in the lead," Greg announced, peering ahead.
The Marquesans have, too, bamboo drums, long sections of the hollow reed, slit, and beaten with sticks. For calling boats and for signaling they use the conch-shell, the same that sounded when "the Tritons blew their wreathed horn." They also have the jew's-harp, an instrument common to all Polynesia; sometimes a strip of bark held between the teeth, sometimes a bow of wood strung with gut.
More astonishing still is the fact that in 1893, two years before Marconi demonstrated his system of wireless signaling, Tesla had built a model boat in which he combined power to drive it with radio control and robotics. He put the small boat in a lake in Madison Square Gardens in New York. Standing on the shore with a control box, he invited onlookers to suggest movements.
He knew he was visible to them, and as he suspected, they soon stopped, slowing down and signaling to him. "Morey take the Thought. I'm going to visit them in the Banderlog as I think we shall name the tender," called Arcot, stripping off the headset, and leaving the control seat. The other fleet of ships was now less than a hundred thousand miles away, clearly visible in the telectroscope.
Eliza was barely six years old, and I was not yet four. We clung to each other in voiceless terror. Then from afar came a familiar whistle Will's call to his dog. That heartened us, babes as we were, for was not our brother our reliance in every emergency? Rescue was at hand; but Turk continued tearing up the leaves, after signaling his master with a loud bark.
"There are plenty of Americans mixed up in this mess, but they are not doing the signaling, so far as I have heard. It would seem that the wig-wag ought to be in Spanish. I wonder if I could get down the mountain to the man there? It would be easier than climbing." "I'll go with you," decided Frank. "If I fall it will be like rolling a feather bed down the mountains.
A sergeant of the 21st Lancers says the signaling is done by dropping a kind of silver ball or disc from the aeroplanes, and the Germans watch for this and locate our position to a nicety at once. As scouts and that, meantime, is the real practical purpose of aeroplanes in war the British aviators have done wonders.
He had reasoned that when they discovered they were followed they would, in the absence of any chance of signaling through the storm, detach one of their number to give the alarm. HIM he would follow. He felt his revolver safe on his hip; he would use it only if necessary to intimidate the spies.
Captain Barrington muffled up in polar clothes and oilskins, rushed past the boys like a ghost and ran forward shouting some order. The first and second officers followed him. Presently the voice of the rapid-fire gun was heard, and the boys could see its sharp needles of white fire splitting the black night. A blue glare far away answered the explosions. It was the Brutus signaling her consort.
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