Chapter

 1 1    | SEPTEMBER 27th, 1869.—It is high tide, and three o’clock in the
 2 1    |      rapid current of the ebbing tide has carried us through the
 3 XV   |     thing alone was certain: the tide was ebbing beneath us, and
 4 XV   |          hope that the next high tide would set us afloat.~Towards
 5 XV   |      probably be covered at high tide, and persisted in the original
 6 XVI  |          nowhere to be seen. The tide was now almost at its lowest
 7 XVI  |         fear, however, since the tide has reached its lowest mark,
 8 XVI  |    foremost in every action.~The tide turned at seven this morning,
 9 XVI  |        the ship is lying. As the tide rose the white breakers
10 XVI  |          hold increased with the tide from five feet to nine;
11 XVI  |      advantage of the first high tide to quit the reef as speedily
12 XVIII|     place above the knuckle. The tide at this time was low, and
13 XIX  |          at every retreat of the tide, drained off to the level
14 XIX  |         contrived to dive at low tide and nail a sheet of copper
15 XX   |         of basalt, which at high tide we knew was barely covered
16 XX   |        been the ordinary spring- tide, but an equinoctial tide,
17 XX   |         tide, but an equinoctial tide, such a one as could not
18 XX   |  Chancellor” was in motion.~High tide would be at twenty minutes
19 XX   |         trimmed to the wind. The tide was exactly at its height,
20 XX   |      avail; all was in vain; the tide began to turn; and the “
21 XXI  |         In the evening, when the tide was quite low, and the rocks
22 XXI  |       being filled by the rising tide, had been cut right through
23 XXI  |       prisoners no more!~At high tide the “Chancellor” weighed
24 XXI  |          of their lives.~At high tide this morning, the 24th,