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Jenks remembered that Captain Ross's foresight had secured the provisioning of all the ship's boats soon after the first wild rush to steady the vessel after the propeller was lost. Masts, sails, oars, seats all save two water-casks had gone; but Jenks, with eager hands, unfastened the lockers, and here he found a good supply of tinned meats and biscuits.
The first one was wholly involuntary, and not much to our liking, for through a breakdown in our engines we drifted helplessly for two days in the very centre of the danger zone of submarines. Our next stop had also some connection with these sharks, for we sighted floating in mid-ocean two life-boats and we went close to them but there was no one on board only oars and water-casks.
But what do they know? They're just landsmen, ain't they? They ain't never had their leg grabbed by a ghost, such as I had, on the Kathleen, thirty-five years ago, down in the hole 'tween the water-casks. An' didn't that ghost rip the shoe right off of me? An' didn't I fall through the hatch two days later an' break my shoulder?" "Now, Miss, I seen 'em makin' signs to Mr.
About a quarter of an hour later the rumbling of the rolling water-casks and the loud scraping sound of the meal-sacks on the deck ceased; there was a pause of a minute or so, and then I heard a voice say in Spanish: "The last of the meal and the water has gone over the rail, senor capitan. Is there anything else?" "No," was the answer, in the same language; "you may all go back to the brig.
And they said, 'We will land in Crete, and see Minos the just king, and all his glory and his wealth; at least he will treat us hospitably, and let us fill our water-casks upon the shore. But when they came nearer to the island they saw a wondrous sight upon the cliffs.
Above all, see that the water-casks in every boat are kept full. In this way the sea tragedies may be a little lessened in their hateful number. March, 1889. There came into my life a time of strenuous effort, and I drank all the joys of labour to the lees.
The press of passengers was very great; another steam-boat lay on each side of her; the gangways were choked up; distracted women, obviously bound for Gravesend, but turning a deaf ear to all representations that this particular vessel was about to sail for Antwerp, persisted in secreting baskets of refreshments behind bulk-heads, and water-casks, and under seats; and very great confusion prevailed.
The pumps were choaked; by 9 A. M. they were cleared, and by this time we had eight feet water in the well, and three on the gun-deck; the ship rolled very much, and the chests, guns, and water-casks, being all cast adrift, were dashing from larboard to starboard with the greatest fury.
As he spoke, the natives were seen running down the hill towards the canoes. The boat had returned and taken on board several of the water-casks. "The water will be dearly purchased if we wait to allow these savages to overtake us. Shove off, shove off!" Captain Westerway was on deck, surprised to see the boat coming back. Willy was standing near him.
It had developed during the continuance of the chase, and now covered both sea and sky, the latter with black cumbrous clouds, the former with quick curling waves, that lashed the water-casks supporting both rafts, and proclaimed the approach, if not of a storm, at least a fresh breeze, likely to change the character of the chase hitherto kept up between them.
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