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Updated: June 21, 2025
"If she pass us now, our chance is gone, without a shadow of hope;" said the Skimmer, motioning solemnly for silence. Then, applying his hands to his mouth, he shouted, as if despair lent a giant's volume to his lungs "Ho! The Water-Witch! ahoy!" The last word issued from his lips with the clear, audible cry, that the peculiar sound is intended to produce.
"If his conclusions are as clear and satisfactory to-morrow as they were to-day, I shall certainly try to secure his services." "Then I can only say I would prefer the water-witch. He at least would not represent a class of neighbors who have made themselves systematically uncivil and disagreeable to us."
"The keel of the ship that is to capture the Water-Witch is not yet laid," he said, firmly; "nor is the canvas that is to drive her through the water, wove! Our mistress is not so heedless as to sleep, when there is most occasion for her services."
By nature he was peaceably disposed, but when he had taken too much liquor he was inclined to fight, with or without provocation. The profession of a water-witch did not bring enough ducats to the Smith family; so the attempt was made to find hidden treasures.
I found that in returning to Adelaide the Water-witch had proved so leaky as to be deemed unsafe for further service on so wild a coast, and that the Governor had, in consequence, with the promptness and consideration which so eminently distinguished him, chartered the "HERO," a fine cutter, a little larger than the WATERWITCH, and placing her under the command of Mr.
"I like this opening in the north-west," observed the captain, after his eye had thoroughly scanned the whole of the still dusky and limited view. "Wind will come out of it. Give us a cap-full, and we shall try the speed of this boasted Water-Witch! Do I not see a sail, on our weather-beam? or is it the crest of a wave?"
Now must I write in numbers flowing Extemporaneously a POEM? One that will fill your eyes with TEARS, While I relate how our worst fears Were realized in yonder ditch. Conveyed there by some water-WITCH, We found, sad sight for longing EYES! Fido, much loved, though small in size.
The scud, which floats above the sea, is not freer than that vessel, and scarcely more swift. Well is she named the Water-Witch! for her performances on the wide ocean have been such as seem to exceed all natural means. The froth of the sea does not dance more lightly above the waves, than yonder graceful fabric, when driven by the breeze.
The mariners at the oars confirmed this assertion, by their grave and believing faces; while their superior caused the boat to quit the place, and the image of the Water-Witch was left floating in solitude above her proper element. The arrival of the cutter produced no sensation among those who were found on the deck of the brigantine.
But while the Water-Witch left the boats, commanded by the captain and master of the Queen's cruiser, behind her, she steered directly on the course that was necessary to bring her soonest in contact with the yawl.
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