Chapter

 1 III    | carrying cotton, and the entire hold, with the exception of a
 2 VII    |         main-mast open into the hold. They seemed to be all close
 3 IX     |       from penetrating into the hold, For some time I hoped that
 4 IX     |        a damp or ill-ventilated hold will sometimes cause it
 5 IX     |     obliged to flood the entire hold before we could get at the
 6 IX     |        other, air gets into the hold.”~“Have you ever heard of
 7 X      |         do to the bottom of the hold, may possibly be channels
 8 X      |           I cried.~“Down in the hold, with the cargo.”~
 9 XI     |      matter to be stowed in the hold with as little compunction
10 XI     |       had been deposited in the hold; for although the mate had
11 XII    |       combustible matter in the hold.~“No” he gravely replied, “
12 XII    |       of admitting air into the hold by going down to search
13 XII    |       that there is fire in the hold. As soon as the fact was
14 XIII   |      the water by tons into the hold? What could be the harm?
15 XIII   | somewhat above the level of the hold, is now the only available
16 XIII   |        of the partitions of the hold. Clouds of smoke issue from
17 XV     |  anchors. Let us hope they will hold.”~Then, clinging to the
18 XVI    |      much water had entered the hold. The deck was still too
19 XVI    |        reached that part of the hold in which Ruby’s luggage
20 XVI    |      height of the water in the hold increased with the tide
21 XVI    |       fact that the ship with a hold full of water is only too
22 XVII   |        able to venture into the hold. Then the leak, too, that
23 XVII   |         Mr. and Mrs. Kear, too, hold themselves aloof from their
24 XIX    |     continually rising from the hold; but it gradually diminished
25 XIX    |         days or more before the hold would be in a condition
26 XIX    |       the water that filled the hold. For this purpose the leak
27 XIX    |      got lower and lower in the hold the men were enabled to
28 XX     |          The examination of the hold has at last been made. Amongst
29 XX     |         and of the water in her hold, she had been able to float
30 XXII   |      who had been down into the hold, came on deck with the ominous
31 XXII   |      sea-water was entering the hold, but whether the leak had
32 XXII   |      were floating about in the hold, while every moment that
33 XXIII  |        keeping the water in the hold to one level; now, however,
34 XXIII  |      personal inspection of the hold. I, with the boatswain and
35 XXIII  |        finding its way into the hold gave us fresh courage to
36 XXIII  |        Six feet of water in the hold!”~The ship, then, was filling
37 XXIII  |        water is reported in the hold, and some of the sailors,
38 XXIV   |       at length, the men in the hold who were passing the buckets
39 XXIV   |       boat was far too small to hold us all, and it would therefore
40 XXIV   |       Curtis had already caught hold of the young man, and was
41 XXV    |      let us not despair; let us hold on to the hope that the
42 XXIX   |        been made on the fore to hold a mast, which was supported
43 XXX    |    questionable whether it will hold together. The cords that
44 XXXV   |    bound us should retain their hold, it seemed perfectly incredible
45 XXXVII |        all. Let me but just get hold of one fish, and I shall
46 XXXVIII|       so heavy that I could not hold it up; it was swimming with
47 XXXVIII|     Andre Letourneur had caught hold of one of his legs, and
48 XXXVIII|        aimed at him, had caught hold of a hatchet, with which
49 XXXVIII|        and the boatswain seized hold of Owen.~“Now then,” said
50 XLIV   |      the iron had made good its hold upon the creature’s flesh.~“