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Updated: June 4, 2025
There was a bright golden gleam as the oars dipped, and a swirl of phosphor fire at the stern like little wandering stars, when I heard the noise of oars and the creak of thole-pins, and I turned to look, thinking maybe some other was at the fishing, but the boat was heading for the port at the Point wrack-grown now, and only to be seen at low tide.
Boats came, boats went, but there was none that approached the villa; and Cornelia began to harbour dark thoughts against Cassandra. "If the wretched woman had played false to her mistress again " but the threat was never formulated. There was a chink and click of a pair of oars moving on their thole-pins. For an instant a skiff was visible at the foot of the embankment; two occupants were in it.
Skipper was truly a god, his god, with a god's power to save. Soon he heard the rhythmic clack of the oars on the thole-pins, and the joy in his own yelp was duplicated by the joy in Skipper's voice, which kept up a running encouragement, broken by objurgations to the rowers. "All right, Jerry, old man. All right, Jerry. All right. Washee-washee, you fella boy! Coming, Jerry, coming.
The day coming slowly brighter I observed on the bilge, among the big stones with which fisherfolk ballast their boats, several kegs and baskets, and a provision of fuel. All these were discharged upon the crag. The sun was not yet up when the boat moved away again, the noise of the oars on the thole-pins echoing from the cliffs, and left us in our singular reclusion.
Then said Grettir, "The stern will not be left if the rowing afore be good." Thereat Thorgeir fell to rowing so hard that both the tholes were broken: then said he, "Row on, Grettir, while I mend the thole-pins." Then Grettir pulled mightily while Thorgeir did his mending, but when Thorgeir took to rowing again, the oars had got so worn that Grettir shook them asunder on the gunwale.
Then, as soon as the first gang had finished breakfast, they relieved those at the pumps, who in their turn took breakfast and next proceeded to clear away the longboat and prepare her for launching, by providing her with a proper supply of oars and thole-pins, her rudder and tiller, masts and sails, and then carefully stowing her stock of water and provisions.
"In a moment! one of the thole-pins is loose; may I pound it down with an oar?" "No, no! No noise! Push it down with your hands, it will be firm." They noiselessly cut loose the boat fastened to the bow of a sailing vessel. There was here a whole fleet of sailing vessels, loaded with oak bark, and Turkish feluccas still half full of palma, sandal-wood and great cypress logs.
It is a trade few can learn, for it is all done within the head; you will have to sit down and think it out, and then make up when it is all ready in your mind. I described the fixed thole-pins that are used in Connaught here they use two freely moving thole-pins, with the oar loose between them, and they jeered at the simplicity of the Connaught system.
What 's mo, Miss, dat big villin, Blueskin, will be powerful joyed to see youse again." On a night of the most intense darkness a strange-looking craft was stealing slowly up the Raritan, quite as much helped in its progress by the flood-tide as by the silent stroke of the oars, about which were wound cloths where they rubbed against the thole-pins.
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