Chapter
1 1 | of Laird Brothers. She is two years old, is sheathed and
2 II | an interchange of ideas. Two days have elapsed and I
3 II | namely, that there are two ladies occupying the stern-cabins,
4 III | accomplished, the other two shall be absolutely null
5 V | lie in a semicircle about two or three leagues from shore
6 VI | fashion for the best part of two days; the “stiffish breeze”
7 VI | whilst others, varying from two to three hundred feet in
8 VII | warm and genial, and thus, two reefs in her top-sails,
9 X | was sitting on the poop, two of my fellow-passengers,
10 XI | obliged for a moment or two to clasp his hands tightly
11 XIII | nearly all, on deck, and the two stern cabins, lighted, as
12 XV | somewhat abated, and that the two opposing elements were in
13 XV | communication between the two extremities of the ship,
14 XVI | south-west to north-east, and two hundred fathoms to the north
15 XVI | to walk upon; but after two hours’ irrigation the boards
16 XVI | given up for the use of the two ladies. Such of the crew
17 XVII | hundred bales of cotton; two or three days at most will
18 XVII | I also devote an hour or two to my diary. Falsten holds
19 XIX | feet fore of the helm, and two feet above the rider of
20 XIX | reaching land in safety.~After two days’ toil the water was
21 XX | to her present moorings. Two more anchors were next carried
22 XX | which was not more than two hundred feet in length.
23 XXI | could only work at it for two hours out of the twenty-four.”~“
24 XXI | immediately followed; the two substances were mixed together,
25 XXI | started on her onward way, and two hours later the last peak
26 XXII | post upon the poop.~Towards two o’clock in the morning I
27 XXII | with the ominous cry,—~“Two feet of water below.”~In
28 XXII | once divided the crew into two sets, and made them work
29 XXIV | to insure its floating.~Two hours later and suddenly
30 XXV | that she can sail with two feet of water over her deck?”~“
31 XXV | for the convenience of the two ladies Curtis has contrived
32 XXVI | handsomely for their services, two of them, Burke and Sandon,
33 XXVII | only faintly distinguish two figures on the stern, whom,
34 XXVII | sailors,—a Scotchman and two Englishmen, —were missing.
35 XXVIII| With regard to the sailors, two or three of them were calm
36 XXIX | drifting off before our eyes. Two of the sailors and an apprentice,
37 XXIX | which had drifted about two cables-lengths away; but,
38 XXX | small keg of brandy, and two barrels of water complete
39 XXXI | performed under a period of two months. To be sure there
40 XXXI | from the east, not only two months, but twice, nay,
41 XXXI | not forget that there are two sources from which we may
42 XXXI | our supply of water, and two empty barrels have been
43 XXXII | She had been, she said, two years with Mrs. Kear, and
44 XXXIII| balance, and we shipped two or three heavy seas; but
45 XXXV | had touched our raft.~By two o’clock the storm had reached
46 XXXV | contained was rapidly escaping. Two of the sailors rushed forward
47 XXXVI | us in the future!~Of the two sailors who perished in
48 XXXVII| carried along at the rate of two or two and a half knots
49 XXXVII| along at the rate of two or two and a half knots an hour.
50 XXXVII| the same provisions for two months, or even for one,
51 XXXVII| not get a single bite. For two days the attempt was made
52 XLIII | sharks, the boatswain and two sailors took a morning bath,
53 XLIV | clearly visible to a depth of two hundred feet below the surface.
54 XLIX | to 22nd.—For the day or two after the horrible repast
55 LII | sleep for a moment. Towards two o’clock in the morning my
56 LIII | fell back senseless. Only two names now remained in the
57 LIV | consciousness there had been only two names left in the hat, those
58 LIV | son was spared, and as the two sat conversing in an undertone
59 LV | back, in which position two of the sailors held him
60 LV | of you,” he went on. “My two arms will give you each
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