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"i, i, Sir," they said, in a chorus. Then, as we all turned to go forrard, he asked if anyone had relieved the look-out. "No, sir," answered Quoin. "Is it yours?" the Second asked. "Yes, Sir," he replied. "Hurry up and relieve him then," the Second said. "i, i, Sir," the man answered, and went forrard with the rest of us. As we went, I asked Plummer who was at the wheel. "Tom," he said.
He's just disappeared off of the face of the bloomin' earth." I got down on to my chest, and reached for my boots. Before I could speak again, the man was saying something fresh. "See here, mates," he went on. "If things is goin' on like this, I'd like to know where you an' me'll be befor' long!" "We'll be in 'ell," said Plummer. "I dunno as I like to think 'bout it," said Quoin.
Then the Old Man spoke to the men. "Now, men!" he began. "This is no time for dilly-dallying. The Second Mate and I will go aloft, and I want about half a dozen of you to come along with us, and carry lights. Plummer and Jessop here, have volunteered. I want four or five more of you. Step out now, some of you!" There was no hesitation whatever, now; and the first man to come forward was Quoin.
"'e's as mad as a bloomin' 'atter," said Quoin, who was standing foreside of me. "'e's been queer all along." "Silence there!" shouted the Second Mate. Then: "Williams!" No answer. "Williams!" more loudly. Still no answer. Then: "Damn you, you jumped-up cockney crocodile! Can't you hear? Are you blooming-well deaf?" There was no answer, and the Second Mate turned to me.
We're still at it but we'll never find him," he ended, with a sort of gloomy assurance. "Oh, I dunno," said Quoin. "P'raps 'e's snoozin' somewheres 'bout." "Not him," replied the man. "I tell you we've turned everythin' upside down. He's not aboard the bloomin' ship. "Where was he when they last saw him?" I asked. "Someone must know something, you know!" "Keepin' time up on the poop," he replied.
Quoins were blocks of wood, square, and wedge-shaped, with ring-hooks screwed in them for the greater ease of handling. Two of the gun's crew raised the base of the cannon upon their handspikes, using the "steps" of the gun carriage as their fulcra. A third slid a quoin along the "bed" of the carriage, under the gun, to support it at the required height.
The whole coast seems to be broken with verdant valleys; from the Wady el-'Ayn, with its numerous branches beautifying the north, to the Wady el-Daghaybaj in the south, supplying water between its two paps. The loose sand is everywhere strewed with bits of light porous lava, which comes from the Harrat el-Buhayr, a bluff quoin to the north-west.
Forsyth having collected all the necessary material for the survey near the ship, we shifted our berth this afternoon into deeper water, between the south end of Quoin Island and another small islet to the south-west, which from our operations on its south-eastern corner we called Observation Island.
An innominatus, in the shape of a similar quoin, is separated by a deep Col, apparently a torrent-bed, from a huge Beco de Papagaio the "Parrot's Bill" so common in the Brazil. It is our "High Peak," the most remarkable feature of the sea-facade, even when it conceals the pair of towering pillars that show conspicuously to the north and south.
"Yes," I said, again. I thought I saw him look at Quoin, significantly; but Stubbins, I noticed, looked only at me. "I reckon ther Second thinks you're a bit hoff colour," he remarked, after a short pause. "The Second Mate's a fool!" I said, with some bitterness. "A confounded fool!" "I hain't so sure about that," he replied. "It's bound ter seem queer ter him. I don't understand it myself "
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