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Updated: August 3, 2024
But it's not goin' to happen again; it was just a bit of a jollification we threated ourselves to upon the strength of foindin' the oiland all right; but there'll be no more of it barrin', maybe, a bit of a spree when our work's done here, and we're ready to sail for home again.
"If the oiland isn't there, it's somewheres thereabouts, widin a few miles more or less; and we've got to find it afore the hooker turns her nose towards home. Now I hopes that's plain enough for ye." And, smiting the chart a mighty blow with his clenched fist, he turned on his heel and walked forward.
"I want ye to do this and, understand me, ye'll have to do it, whither it plaises ye or not," he answered. "There's a spot somewhere on that bit of an oiland," indicating the small islet opposite which the brig was moored "that I want to find.
"Arre ye contint wid that gowld-mine at Minóok? No, be the Siven! What's wan gowld-mine to a millionaire? What forr wud ye be prospectin that desert oiland, you and yer faithful man Froyday, if ye wasn't rooned intoirely be riches?" The Boy tore himself away from his old friends, and followed the arbiter of his fate. The engines had started up again, and they were going on.
"Ay, but it won't be," he snarled back; "it'll be correct, and we'll find the oiland where Oi told ye. And if we don't, why bedad it'll be the worse for you and the gal, for we'll cruise for it until we find it, if we has to cruise until the Judgment Day, like the Flyin' Dutchman!" "All right," I said. "If the island is where you say it is, I will find it for you, never fear.
"Ah!" he exclaimed, with a sigh of relief, "but this oiland as Oi'm talkin' about is unbeknownst, so av coorse it won't be drawed on the chart. That's all right, misther; you navigate the brig to that place, and you'll find an oiland there, safe enough." "But, supposing that we do not," I suggested; "supposing that your information happens to be incorrect; what then?"
Follow the bight until ye reach the lagoon, when ye may anchor annywhere not closer than a dozen fadoms of the oiland. The gems' oh, bedad, but that's another matther intoirely," he hastily concluded. "The directions seem explicit enough," said I; "and as no mention is made of any dangers to be avoided I suppose there are none.
"To an oiland in latichood " began O'Gorman. "To an island?" I interrupted. "And do you think you would ever have succeeded in finding that island without the assistance of a navigator? Do you think you would ever have reached the Pacific at all? By what means would you ascertain your whereabouts and avoid dangers?" I demanded.
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