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Here are we, regularly boxin' the compass, our jibboom pointin' first this way, then that, and then t'other, while that ship haven't veered nothin' to speak of all the time that I've been on deck; she've pointed steady to the south'ard ever since I first set eyes on her, and it seems to me that she've altered her bearin's a bit.
These scruples, however, were overcome by my cleaning the glasses, preparing a barrel for him to stand on, that he might be at the customary elevation above his horizon, and putting the instrument into his hands, the mates standing near, ready to make the calculations when he gave the sun's declination. "We are drifting south'ard, I know," said Mr.
"Hurry, and bring as many men as you can. Got a boat about here?" "There is one on the beach half a mile along to the south'ard. But you cannot launch her through this." "Oh yes, we can." The coastguard glanced at the man with a sudden interest. "Who are you?" he asked. "Stoke first mate," was the reply. The rest of the story of the wreck has been told by abler pens in the daily newspapers.
I asked eagerly. "No; she's at Tararo's island." "And where does it lie?" "About fifty or sixty miles to the south'ard o' this," returned Bill; "but I " At this moment we were startled by the cry of "mao! mao a shark! a shark!" which was immediately followed by a shriek that rang clear and fearfully loud above the tumult of cries that arose from the savages in the water and on the land.
"Well, lass," said my father, "'tis a great season for all sorts o' sickness an' the doctor is sick abed hisself an' he couldn't come." "Poor man!" sighed my mother. "But he'll come ashore on the south'ard trip." "No, lass no; I fear he'll not." "Poor man!" My mother turned her face from us. She trembled, once, and sighed, and then lay very quiet.
"That must be he, now!" he exclaimed. "'Tis the only hackmatack I sees hereabouts. 'Tis sure he! I'll pace un back to the rock! If the tree's nuth'ard from the rock, the rock'll be south'ard from the tree. I'll try pacin' that way."
"We might as well get ashore somewhere about here," said Hendry; "this is the tail-end of the rainy season, and we can expect heavy rain and nasty squalls for a week at least. It's come on a bit earlier than I expected, and I think we'll be better ashore than boxing about at sea. Can you see the land to the south'ard?"
I expected that he would touch at the Cape, but to my disgust he ran to the south'ard, in order to fall in with the westerly trades, and I found that he intended to touch nowhere until he reached Batavia. "This was anything but consolatory, besides which I had no one to talk to, and not a book on board I could read.
"An' how are 'ee gwine to `cacher' in the Peenyun 'ithout water?" "There is a spring on the side of it, at the foot of the mountain." "That's true as Scripter. I knows that; but at that very spring the Injuns 'll cool their lappers as they go down south'ard. How are 'ee gwine to get at it with this cavayard 'ithout makin' sign? This child don't see that very clur." "You are right, Rube.
Peterkin was wrong, however, in his estimate of savage gratitude, as the sequel will show. The schooner was now put before the wind, and, after making a long run to the south'ard, we put about and beat up for the south side of Mango, where we arrived before sunset, and hove-to off the coral reef. Here we awaited the arrival of a canoe, which immediately put off on our rounding to.
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