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"The Dolphin, privateer, of Weymouth. What ship is that?" answered the skipper. "The Hoogly, East Indiaman; Calcutta to London. Can you tell me whereabouts we are?" "Thirty-six miles south-by-west of Portland Bill," answered the skipper. "Much obliged to you, sir," came the faint acknowledgment from the Indiaman, already out of sight again in the fog.
And now and again, from out of the darkness on either hand, just under the surface, larger phosphorescent organisms flashed up like electric lights, marking collisions with the careless bonitas skurrying ahead to the good hunting just beyond our bowsprit. We made our easting, worked down through the doldrums, and caught a fresh breeze out of south-by-west.
These winds come a little from the eastward of southeast, and with us they blew directly from the east-southeast, which was fortunate for us, as our course was south-by-west, and we could thus go one point free.
"South-a-half-west!" "Let her come up south-by-west! Got it?" "Right on it!" Griffiths considered the changed relation of Amboy Point to the Willi-Waw's course. "And a-half-west!" he cried. "And a-half-west!" came the answer. "Right on it!" "Steady! That'll do!" "Steady she is!" Jacobsen turned the wheel over to the savage. "You steer good fella, savve?" he warned.
At two o'clock in the morning, the wind veered round to south-by-west, and moderated, but a heavy sea was still running. At noon, the latitude was 32° 22' south, 154° 11' east longitude. In the evening, a flying-fish flew on board, which is rather an extraordinary event in this latitude.
John's an' sell 'em to suit themselves, the squid!" So he and Bill Brennen tramped off to the northward; and Mary Kavanagh was aware of their going. Mary was busy during their absence. She unearthed the necklace, and with it and the key from behind the skipper's clock, made her way to the store. It was dark by now, with stars in the sky and a breath of wind from the south and south-by-west.
This preserve lies northwest of Mount Kenia. Its southwestern corner is near Lake Baringo, the Laikipia Escarpment is its western boundary up to Mt. Nyiro, and from that point its northern boundary runs 225 miles to Marsabit Lake. From that point the boundary runs south-by-west to the Guaso Nyiro River, which forms the eastern half of the southern boundary.
The wet and heavy sails now flapped from the shifting of the wind. "Up with the helm, quarter-master." "Up it is she's off to south-by-west." The wind lulled, the rain came down in a deluge for a minute it was quite calm, and the frigate was on an even keel. "Man the braces. We shall be taken aback, directly, depend upon it." The braces were hardly stretched along before this was the case.
These winds come a little from the eastward of south-east, and, with us, they blew directly from the east-south-east, which was fortunate for us, for our course was south-by-west, and we could thus go one point free.
I am bound to say that Senor Manuel Nunez was very courteous towards me. But what avails courtesy, when the courteous man is only waiting his time to injure you? We had been at sea something like three weeks, and had passed Ushant four days previously, when, sailing south-by-west, we were overtaken by a gale and had to run before it with bare poles.
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