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"There's no more water-belt there," said Lund, "than there was music in your great-uncle's jewsharp; but there's a spot off to the sou'-west that looks to me a little like blue water." "Blue water, indeed!" retorted Creamer; "who ever saw blue water on soundings! I'll lay a plug of navy tobacco there isn't open water enough there away to float La Salle's gunning-float comfortably."
"By which you mean, I suppose, that one of the numerous volcanoes in the Malay Archipelago has become active," said Nigel; "but are we not some five or six hundred miles to the sou'-west of Sunda? Surely the influence of volcanic action could scarcely reach so far."
Then the carrying-steamer turned her sharp bow to the sou'-west, put on full steam, and made for the Thames distant nearly 300 miles with over 2000 trunks of fresh fish on board, for the breakfast, luncheon and dinner tables of the Great City.
We'll stand away to the sou'-west till we run her out of sight; it will cause us some delay, but it will be better than running the risk of capture."
She was silent for some time, looking steadily out of doors. The captain glanced uneasily once or twice at the dark blue eyes and at a ray of sunlight glistening in the loose yellow hair. "It is sou'-west. It really does begin to feel like summer," he said, dropping his pencil and fumbling for his tobacco. Jane brought his pipe and lighted it for him.
"Not at all, not at all, Captain Daggett; though I had no idea, then, that you intended to make a voyage to the southward so soon. When did you leave the Hole, sir?" "Day before yesterday, afternoon. We came out of the Hull about five o'clock." "How had you the wind, sir?" "Sou'-west, and sou'-west and by south. There has been but little change in that, these three days."
But when the wind veered and came piping out of the west or sou'-west, in they came in such numbers that the gangs, however numerous they might be, had all their work cut out to board them. Just as they could not negotiate Deal beach without danger of being reduced to matchwood, so they could not live in the choppy sea kicked up in the Downs by a westerly gale.
They blow from two or three hours to as many days, and if they last any length of time, are generally succeeded by a sudden change to sou'-west the cold, rainy, or snowy wind. We catch the nor'-west in full force, but are sheltered from the sou'-west, which, with us, is a quiet wind, accompanied with gentle drizzling but cold rain, and, in the winter, snow.
'18th Oct. Half a gale from the sou'-west when we turned out, but it helped us to float off safely at six. The dinghy was very nearly swamped with the weight of lead in it, and getting the ballast back into the yacht was the toughest job of all. It was touch and go for a few minutes, and then easier.
"It is certainly a sail," said he whom we have styled the captain to one who stood by his side, and might have been his lieutenant or mate. "She bears sou'-west, I think," replied the latter. "So much the better," returned the captain; "let her fall off a little so, steady. If this wind holds for half an hour we shall get well abreast of her, and then "
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