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"I have a word to say to you before we get on board the old Molly once more." Mulford silently complied, fully expecting that Spike intended to blow his brains out, and willing the bloody deed should be done in a way to be as little shocking to Rose as circumstances would allow. But Spike manifested no such intention.
Mulford found it was perfectly dry, however, an important discovery to him, as by a close calculation he had made of the tides, since quitting the Dry Tortugas, he knew it must be near high water. Could he have even this small portion of bare rock secure, it made him, for the moment, rich as the most extensive landholder living.
I've no more reason than another craft to fear a government vessel, but the sight of one of them makes me oncomfortable; that's all." Mulford shrugged his shoulders and remained silent, perceiving that his commander was not disposed to pursue the subject any further.
Give me the glass" taking another long look at the boat, which by this time was glancing, rather than pulling, nearly at right angles across his bows. "I want no such pilot aboard here, Mr. Mulford. Take another look at him here, you can see him, away on our weather bow, already." Mulford did take another look at him, and this time his examination was longer and more scrutinizing than before.
The key meant is an island." "And why should any one be so silly as to call an island a key?" "The place where vessels unload is sometimes called a key," answered Mulford; "the French calling it a quai, and the Dutch kaye. I suppose our English word is derived from these. Now, a low, sandy island, looking somewhat like keys, or wharves, seamen have given them this name.
Wallace laughed, and then he turned the discourse to the subject more properly before them. "I understand you to say, Mr. Mulford," he remarked, "that, in your opinion, the Swash has gone to try to raise the unfortunate Mexican schooner, a second time, from the depths of the ocean?" "From the rock on which she lies.
Suddenly, Mulford darted forward, and passed beyond the field of the glass. When Jack found him again, he was in the act of turning a small turtle, using his knife on the animal immediately after. Had Jack been in danger of starvation himself, and found a source of food as ample and as grateful as this, he could scarcely have been more delighted.
To those on board the Swash these flames seemed to draw nearer each instant, as indeed was the fact, and just as the breeze came fresher out of the opening in the hills, or the low mountains, which surround the place of refuge in which they designed to enter, Mulford announced that by aid of the night-glass he could distinguish both sails and hull of their pursuer.
Budd, as my captain's lady, you see, Mr. Mulford, and intend to treat her accordin'ly. She knows it and Rose knows it and they both declare they'd rather sail with me, since sail they must, than with any other ship-master out of America." "You sailed once with Capt. Budd yourself, I think I have heard you say, sir?" "The old fellow brought me up.
Toward noon, Mulford had insisted on the females dividing one of the oranges between them, and extracting its juice by way of assuaging their thirst. The effect was most grateful, as all admitted, and even Mrs. Budd urged Harry and Tier to take a portion of the remaining orange; but this both steadily refused.
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