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"Blowin' up wonderful," he observed, quietly, smoothing his long hair, which the wind had put awry. "Gets real dirty long about the Thirty Devils in the dark. Don't it, Will?" Will said that it did indeed, it did no doubt about that, whatever. "I s'pose," the skipper drawled, in conclusion, "we'd as lief get underway at dawn." "Very good," said the doctor.
The smaller pearls, about the size of Number 1 shot, were very perfect in figure but tinged with colour. As soon as the observations were concluded we returned on board, and got underway to proceed to the Ki Islands. On the 25th we passed the north end of the Great Ki, and along its western side, which appeared to be as steep as the eastern, and to afford no anchorage whatever.
A visit to Hong-Kong had been some time in contemplation, and accordingly on Friday afternoon, twenty-ninth of November, we unmoored, and at three o'clock on Saturday morning, weighed the remaining anchor, and drifted with the ebb towards the entrance of the Typa, but sticking fast on a mud bank, had to wait for the next tide, which luckily bore us off on the afternoon of the same day, when we got out and underway.
Over thirty canoes, and five or six boats, manned and armed by nearly two hundred of the picked men of the island, and led by Martin Flemming and three chiefs, were soon underway, and passing out through the narrow passage in the reef, went northward till they rounded the point, and saw the barque about five miles away.
I got three of them with my rifle and one with my pistol. My companion shot three with his rifle. The one I shot with my pistol I don't think was over ten feet from me when she fell. She was the nicest little two-year-old heifer I had ever killed, and her meat was almost as tender as chicken. We went to work dressing them and had them pretty well underway when the train arrived.
"For I calls you t' witness this: that when I cotches them twins o' mine I'll thwack un till they're red, Tom Tot till they're red and blistered below decks. An' when I cotches that young Davy Roth when I cotches un alone, 'ithout the doctor I'll give un double watches." "We'll get underway for Wolf Cove, Skipper Tommy," said Tom Tot, "when the weather lightens.
He feels this is a very important activity, and one which you should follow up just as closely as possible. Will you please send me a report for the Guardian of any activities along this line which are underway; and if not, what can be done to set such a program in motion.
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