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Updated: June 26, 2025
The fisherman had hardly ceased speaking, when another of the coast people was seen hurrying down from the look- out. "There is a ship about eight miles to the sou'west, with canvas close hauled; but I don't think that she will be able to weather the point."
And even the few survivors of that time old men now had changed so much, that it would have been unkind to remember against them that they had ever slit a throat in their lives. He had one especially in his mind's eye: a dignified, venerable headman of a certain large coast village about sixty miles sou'west of Tampasuk. It did one's heart good to see him to hear that man speak.
Wind's hauled to the sou'west too. Bad quarter means more fog and smother." "Who-o-o-o-o!" boomed the siren of the hidden vessel once more, and this time it was answered by another whistle somewhere further off in the fog. "Two uv 'em now. Stand by fer a collision," shouted the captain, while the scouts, intensely interested in the development of this hidden drama of the fog, clustered about him.
"Is you sure?" "'Tis not the way she blows, zur!" "'Tis surely not she," the skipper mused. "In the sou'west she'd be out of her course. Hark!" Once more the long, hoarse roar broke the silence, but now rising again and again, agonized, like a cry for help. "Dear Lard!" skipper Tommy cried, putting his hands to his face. "'Tis a big steamer on the Thirty Black Devils!"
The old salt deigned no reply to this passing sally, but continued his converse with Singleton. "I could give ye many a long yarn about the South Seas," said Buzzby, gazing abstractedly down into the deep. "One time, when I was about fifty mile to the sou'west o' Cape Horn, I " "Dinner's ready, sir," said a thin, tall, active man, stepping smartly up to Singleton, and touching his cap.
"I shall try not too, unless I have cause," I answered, looking him square in the eyes, and determining to make my position clear at once. "Senor Estada tells me I am to relieve you. What is the course?" "Sou'west, by half sou'." "We might be carrying more canvas." "There is nothing to hurry about, and the fog is thick." "That will probably lift within an hour. Do you know your position?"
Before Courtenay could answer, the officer of the watch looked in. "Cape Caraumilla bearing sou'west of the Buei Rock, sir," he announced, and vanished again. "Don't hurry," said Courtenay, taking up his cap. "I must leave you for a few minutes." He was gone, with Joey at his heels, and there was a brief silence. "Really, Isobel, we should go back on deck," urged Elsie, uneasily.
Goring," replied Little, staring in the direction where the glimpse of white had been seen. "It may have been one of the Mission folks, though. How about the gate? This wasn't where the frock came out." "This is the great main gate Houten told us about. He said it faced sou'west by west and had a green skull on top, didn't he?" "Sure thing! And there's the green head all right."
Once, under the weather cloth, I came upon him talking to himself. It was more a prayer. "If only she don't pipe up," he kept repeating. "If only she don't pipe up." Mr. Mellaire was quite different. "It never happens," he told me. "No ship ever went around like this. You watch her come. She always comes a-smoking out of the sou'west." "But can't a vessel ever steal around?" I asked.
He looked to me sort of sick and pale that is, as pale as his sun-burned rhinoceros hide would ever turn. "The forecast for to-day," says he, looking at the water again, "is cloudy in the forenoon, but clearing later on. Wind sou'east, changing to south and sou'west." "Right you are!" says Peter, joyful. "We start for Setuckit, then.
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