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Updated: June 24, 2025
One of the other boats could be seen now and then between them and the shore, a momentary dot of black on the vast blur of green and gray. There was no conversation; the men relieved each other at the oars or bailed out the water with their caps and hands, scarcely interchanging a word. The only utterance was an occasional moaning from among the women and children.
The sailor grunted, and passed us a dipper. We bailed her out while he raised again the peak of his sail. Shortly after this experience we glided up the reaches of a wide beautiful river. It had no banks, but was bordered by the tall reeds called tules. As far as the eye could reach, and that was very far when we climbed part way up the mast to look, these tules extended.
The boat was bailed out, and the next morning Weeks sculled her ashore with the one remaining oar. One of the Sandwich Islanders was so severely injured that he died in the boat, and the other was probably dying from exposure. The relief party prosecuted their search for the Kanaka and found him the next day almost dead.
The Atom I had suffered more from contact with snags and rocks than we had supposed. For several hundred miles her intake of water had steadily increased. We had toiled at the paddles with the water halfway to our knees much of the time; though now and then by spasms we bailed her dry. She had become a floating lump of discouragement, and still fourteen hundred miles lay ahead.
Of course, there are many other "don'ts" that will suggest themselves to the sensible boy; among them, "Don't fail to keep your boat pumped out or bailed," and "don't forget to carry an anchor of some sort," and not the least important," don't leave your eatables and drinkables ashore." There is no small boat so popular or so generally useful as the American catboat.
The darkness passed, the sun shone out merrily, and the travellers arose, brushed the night-dew from their hair, and ate a scanty meal, for they must husband such food as they had with them. Then, as though by common consent, they went to the canoe, bailed her out, and started, Leonard and Otter using the paddles. Now it was that the dwarf's marvellous memory for locality came into play.
"He seems, at any rate, to reckon you high amongst them, since he gave your name." "Gave my name? To whom?" "Oh, I don't know to the magistrate or the policeman or whoever it is. I have never been in a police-cell myself," she added, with a small smile. "Is Herbert, then, in a police-cell?" She nodded. "At Vine Street. He wants to be bailed out." "What amount?"
At length the captain and my landlord found out where I had been sent, and I was immediately bailed. Glad enough was I to get out of prison, and still more so to get out of the company I found in it. Such association is enough to undermine the morals of a saint, in a week or two.
Undaunted, he bailed it out. A second of like size might sink her. Evening was coming on; he must dare the fearful passage through the breakers, or perish where he was. He stood up, holding on to the mast, that he might survey the shore.
The spray dashed into her. The sailors bailed with their caps. Another passenger leaped across, whereat the men yelled and drew their dirks. “Three are left. Room for one more. The rest must swim!” Glaucon stood on the poop. Was life still such a precious thing to some that they must clutch for it so desperately? He had even a painful amusement in watching the others.
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