Chapter

 1 1      |          1869.—It is high tide, and three o’clock in the afternoon
 2 III    |      witness whereof, I have signed three agreements, all of the same
 3 V      |          was not mistaken. At about three o’clock the lookout man
 4 V      |             semicircle about two or three leagues from shore make
 5 VI     |         others, varying from two to three hundred feet in length,
 6 VII    |            It must have; been about three o’clock this morning, and
 7 VII    |      horizon, for as it still wants three days to her last quarter
 8 IX     |        stifled; but during the last three days there is every reason
 9 XV     |         were quite unavailable.~For three long hours, in anxious suspense,
10 XVI    |            to see for a distance of three miles round; but as yet
11 XVII   |             bales of cotton; two or three days at most will suffice
12 XVII   |      deceiving yourself; it must be three weeks at least before you
13 XIX    |        above the rider of the keel; three planks had been stoved in
14 XXI    |           adieu to the scene of our three week’s sojourn, where we
15 XXII   |       daybreak they sounded again:—“Three feet of water!” was the
16 XXVI   | three-fourths immerged; besides the three masts and the bowsprit,
17 XXVI   |           and soon went away.~About three o’clock I noticed that Mr.
18 XXVII  |             Kear, Silas Huntly, and three sailors,—a Scotchman and
19 XXVII  |          escape, and had bribed the three sailors to seize the only
20 XXVIII |       regard to the sailors, two or three of them were calm enough,
21 XXIX   |           disappeared, and only the three mast-tops projected from
22 XXXI   |             months, but twice, nay, three times that length of time
23 XXXI   |     greatest care, will barely last three months. Curtis has called
24 XXXI   |      biscuit. To make this last for three months we ought not to consume
25 XXXI   |              too, over the space of three months.~It is arranged that
26 XXXII  |           that flows at the rate of three or four miles an hour. If
27 XXXIII |      balance, and we shipped two or three heavy seas; but the carpenter
28 XXXV   |            waters.~At last, towards three in the morning, when the
29 XXXVIII|       JANUARY 1st to 5th.—More than three months had elapsed since
30 XLI    |        early in the morning, caught three large cod, each more than
31 XLI    |           fish into equal portions. Three cod were not much amongst
32 XLIII  |       seemed to refresh them, I and three of my companions resolved
33 XLIII  |              therefore, gained only three miles in an hour and a half,
34 XLIII  |          moving slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest
35 L      |      advancing at the rate of about three miles an hour.~Curtis and
36 LII    |              The sound was repeated three times, and as I went up