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Still, we have seen neither wrecker nor turtler since we have been here; and that lessens the excellent chance you left Don Enrique." "There is no occasion, senor, to be so particular," growled Spike, a little sullenly, in reply. "The chance, I say, was a good one, when you consider how many of them devils of wreckers hang about these reefs.
He was without food or water; and no man, in all his vigour, could swim this distance. I see no means of his getting here." "Unless some wrecker, or turtler, fell in with him, and took him off. Ay, ay, Don Wan; I left him that much of a chance, at least. No man can say I murdered my mate." "I am not aware, Don Esteban, that any one has said so hard a thing of you.
They said no, they would not hazard their men, they depended on their sailing, and every one must take care of himself as well as he could. However, they all put to sea together, and spied a sail under the land, which had a breeze while they lay becalmed. Some said he was a turtler; others, the pirate, and so it proved; for it was honest Captain Lewis, who putting out his oars, got in among them.
Although that reef offered in reality no place of safety, that was available to his party, Mulford felt it as a sort of relief, to be certain that it was not distant, possibly influenced by a vague hope that some passing wrecker or turtler might yet pick them up. The bottom of the schooner and the destitute condition of the party admitted of only very simple arrangements for the night.
Thus armed, the turtler sculls over the reef, striking the turtle either as it lies asleep on the bottom or as it rises to breathe. The peg is hurled long distances with great skill and accuracy: as soon as it strikes, the pole comes out, and the victim is managed by the line, often towing the dingy for a considerable distance.
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