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The crew of the Vulcan had run up the barrel like a whaler's lookout to post a watch. Into this barrel Caradoc had climbed. The face of Smith wore a strained, desperate look. Madden stared at him for several seconds, quite taken aback by finding him in such an unexpected place. One thing, however, filled the American with deep gratification. The man was not drunk.
As the crew of each boat accomplished the work of coiling away their lines, they gave three hearty cheers, to which we all responded; so we had as much cheering as at a sailing match. I must try to describe a harpoon, for the benefit of those who have never seen one. It is the whaler's especial weapon the important instrument of his success. It consists of a "socket," "shank," and "mouth."
"Hi, lad!" cried Tom Anderly, when I looked over the rail, "now you've got a taste of real whaler's souse everything you put in your potato-trap for the rest of the v'y'ge will be flavored with whale-oil."
Tom now doing the honours, introduced the lieutenant to Dr Locock. "Of course Captain Murray will be most happy to receive you on board, with any of the survivors of the whaler's crew," said the lieutenant. "I am much obliged to you; there is but one, and I shall be glad to embrace the opportunity of visiting China," answered the doctor.
In case of its not being the whaler's men that had been heard it must be those of the slaver; and the hail would but too certainly be the precursor to his own destruction, as well as that of his companions. In a whisper he communicated his thoughts to Snowball, who became equally affected by them, equally inclined to cry "Ship ahoy!" and alike conscious of the danger of doing so.
Find an island large enough to land a goat upon, and you will find it laid down in the charts, and, if it be only far enough south, a Stonington sealer at anchor under its lee, or a New Bedford whaler's crew ashore picking up drift-wood. Where are the old dangers of the sea? We are fast learning to calculate for the storms, and to run from them.
In a very few minutes he made his report, and the Governor again shook his hand warmly; but the look in Dolly's eyes and the pressure of her hand were the young seaman's sweetest reward, for it told him that she had surrendered. Then, returning to his own ship, he was warmly greeted by Sergeant Burt, and for a few moments the two remained talking in the whaler's cabin.
I had made neither oars to propel her through the water, nor sail to carry her through the waves, when rowing was impossible. I remembered the whaler's spare oars and mizen, but they were too large; nevertheless, they served me as models to work upon, and in time I made a rough pair of paddles or oars, which, though rudely fashioned, I hoped would answer the purpose pretty well.
Memories, too, of the whaler's beat back to the fleet in the teeth of a rising gale that swept in from the Pacific, when the bravest unlaced his boots and they baled with the empty guncase. There was a piece of the sacred pavement of Mecca, brought back in the days when few Europeans had brought anything back from there even their lives.
How old's she, master?" "Fifty years and more," said I. "Dere's nuffin' pertickler in dat," cried Cromwell. "I knows a wessel dat am a hundred an' four year old, s'elp me as I stand." "I don't know how the whaler's heading," said I, "but this schooner's a canoe if we aren't dropping her!" Indeed she was scarce visible astern, a mere windy flicker hovering upon the pale flashings of the foam.
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