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Surely some good genius has transported us into the interior, that we might escape from the relatives of the crew whom I dreamt about," said Jack, looking at Gascoigne. As it afterwards was known to them, the speronare had sailed from the very seaport in which they had arrived that night, and where they had got into the cart.
Steady port it is port. Steer small, for your life, Easy. Steady now mind the yard don't hit your head hold on." The speronare was at this moment thrown into a large cleft in a rock, the sides of which were nearly perpendicular; nothing else could have saved them, as, had they struck the rock outside, the boat would have been dashed to pieces, and its fragments have disappeared in the undertow.
"That's what I shall try to do," replied Gascoigne, who had been four years at sea, and knew very well what he was about. Jack handed him a huge piece of bread and sausage. "Thank ye, I cannot eat." "I can," replied Jack, with his mouth full. Jack ate while Gascoigne steered; and the rapidity with which the speronare rushed to the beach was almost frightful.
"Now take the helm again," said Gascoigne; "I'm on the sick list." "And as surgeon I'm an idler," replied Jack; "but what shall we do?" continued he; "abandon the speronare at night and sink her, or run in for a town?" "We shall fall in with plenty of boats and vessels if we coast it up to Palermo, and they may overhaul us."
"Now do you look out ahead, and tell me how to steer." Whatever may have been Gascoigne's feelings at this behaviour of our hero's, it immediately occurred to him that he could not do better than to run the speronare to the safest point, and that therefore he was probably more advantageously employed than if he were at the helm.
"I could laugh at the duel, for after all it is nothing and he would have been let off with a severe reprimand. But the foolish boys have set off in a speronare to Sicily, and how the devil are we to get them back again?" "They'll come back, sir," replied Sawbridge, "when all their money's gone." "Yes, if they do not get into any more scrapes.
"Why, as we've got possession, Ned, we had better put a man at the helm for the speronare is having it all her own way." "Very true," replied Gascoigne; "and as I can steer better than you, I suppose it must be me." Gascoigne went to the helm, brought the boat up to the wind, and then they resumed their conversation.
"Mine was, that we woke up and found ourselves in the very town from which the speronare had sailed, and that they had found the fore part of the speronare among the rocks, had recognised her, and picked up one of our pistols.
Gascoigne and our hero were neither of them in uniform, and they hastened to Nix Mangare stairs, where they soon picked up the padrone of a speronare.
Jack and Gascoigne had eaten a ye good dinner, sent for the monkey to amuse them till it was dark, and there had waited till the padrone came to them. "What shall we do with the pistols, Easy?" "Take them with us, and load them before we go we may want them. Who knows but there may be a mutiny on board of the speronare? I wish we had Mesty with us."
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