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Nevertheless, as his grandfather, who had been sixty years at sea, and logged many wonderful things, had told him the sky had been known to reflect both ships and land at a great distance, he fully believed there was an island somewhere in that longitude, not down on any chart; an island wooded and watered. This tale soon boarded the Springbok, and was hotly discussed on the forecastle.
But before they had travelled three hours, they were surprised at a cloud of dust, which obscured the horizon, in the direction they were proceeding. "What can that be?" said Alexander. "I think it is springbok," said Bremen the Hottentot. "Springbok, why, there must be thousands and thousands of them."
WHILE the boat was going to the Springbok, General Rolleston whispered to Captain Moreland; and what he said may be almost guessed from what occurred on board the steamer soon afterward. Helen was carried trembling into the cabin, and the order was given to heave the anchor and get under way.
Well, as I have said, Truey was alone. Jan was busy near the bottom of the tree, working a new rod into his bird-cage, and Totty was out upon the plain herding "old Graaf" so Truey and the pet springbok went strolling along by themselves. Now Truey had not gone down to the water without an object. She had one. She had gone to give her pet a drink, and collect some blue lilies for a bouquet.
These American innovations in blockade methods, Great Britain maintained, were of the same general character as those adopted by the allied powers, and Great Britain, as exemplified in the Springbok case, had assented to them.
No," said he, rising suddenly, and confronting the general, and with the color mounting for once in his sallow face, "you sail in no bottom but one freighted by Wardlaw & Son, and the captain shall be under no orders but yours. We have bought the steam-sloop Springbok, seven hundred tons. I'll victual her for a year, man her well, and you shall go out in her in less than a week.
I had no idea that one could get so easily lost in an open plain." "You've had enough experience too, one would think, to have remembered the vastness of the karroo," said Hans, dismounting and making the fastenings of the springbok more secure, "A man soon dwindles to the size of a crow in plains like this, when you gallop away from him.
The three eyed him stonily, and he knew instinctively that he was again a fresher calling on the second year. One, a Captain, raised his head to look at him better. He was a man of light hair and blue, alert eyes, wearing a cap that, while not looking dissipated, somehow conveyed the impression that its owner knew all about things a cap, too, that carried the Springbok device.
She was not thinking of them at the moment, but of something else, perhaps of the blue water-lilies perhaps of the springbok but certainly not of them, as she tripped gaily along the edge of the lake. Her attention, however, was suddenly attracted to the birds.
"Tell him we are all at sixes and sevens, Mr. Wylie; all at sixes and sevens." "Well," said Wylie, affecting a desire to oblige, "give me a line to him; for I've been twice, and could never get in." Michael wrote an earnest line to say that Wardlaw senior had been hitherto much occupied in fitting out the Springbok, but that he was going into the books next week. What was to be done?
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