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1 III | the estimated value of 26,000l., all in good condition,
2 LVII | brought to land in lat. 0deg. 12min. N., so that since
3 VII | quarter she does not set until 10.57 am. On consulting my
4 XLII | CHAPTER XLII.~JANUARY 9th and 10th.—On the 9th the wind dropped,
5 XVIII | it for the small sum of 12 pounds a year.~“I suppose
6 LVII | brought to land in lat. 0deg. 12min. N., so that since we abandoned
7 XXXIV | varying from 100deg. to 150deg., leaving the atmosphere
8 XXXI | sun. The result gave lat. 15deg. 7min. N. by long. 49deg.
9 V | Waller, too, as long ago as 1643, wrote an enthusiastic panegyric
10 XXVI | hot. December in latitude 16deg. N. is a summer month, and
11 XLV | CHAPTER XLV.~JANUARY 16th.—If the crew of any passing
12 XXV | without precedent. In the year 1795 a three-master, the ‘Juno,’
13 VII | N., our longitude 50deg. 17min. W.~Incomprehensible altogether
14 XVI | announced that we are in lat; 18deg. 5min. N. and long. 45deg.
15 XXXI | certainly not more than 200 gallons, but by reducing
16 III | freight pay me the sum of 2000l. inclusive, according to
17 XXXII | as many as weighed almost 200lbs., some of which were grilled,
18 V | he said were lat. 32deg. 20min. N. and long. 64deg. 50min.
19 VII | our latitude, we find, is 21deg. 33min. N., our longitude
20 XVI | almost circular basin from 250 to 300 feet in diameter,
21 III | of the estimated value of 26,000l., all in good condition,
22 II | CHAPTER II.~SEPTEMBER 28th.—John Silas Huntly, the
23 XXIII | CHAPTER XXIII.~DECEMBER 2nd and 3rd.—For four hours
24 XVI | circular basin from 250 to 300 feet in diameter, in the
25 V | bearings, he said were lat. 32deg. 20min. N. and long. 64deg.
26 VII | latitude, we find, is 21deg. 33min. N., our longitude 50deg.
27 XXXI | 7min. N. by long. 49deg. 35min. W. as our position, which,
28 XVI | 18deg. 5min. N. and long. 45deg. 53min. W., but that the
29 XXXI | 15deg. 7min. N. by long. 49deg. 35min. W. as our position,
30 XXXI | we have somewhere about 500 lbs. of meat and about the
31 VII | 33min. N., our longitude 50deg. 17min. W.~Incomprehensible
32 V | 20min. N. and long. 64deg. 50min. W., so that he had every
33 XVI | 5min. N. and long. 45deg. 53min. W., but that the reef on
34 VII | she does not set until 10.57 am. On consulting my almanac,
35 XVI | that we are in lat; 18deg. 5min. N. and long. 45deg. 53min.
36 V | 32deg. 20min. N. and long. 64deg. 50min. W., so that he had
37 XXXI | chart, proved to be about 650 miles north-east of the
38 XXIX | the point of embarking at 7 a.m. when the “Chancellor”
39 XXXI | result gave lat. 15deg. 7min. N. by long. 49deg. 35min.
40 XVII | level of the water are still a-light he has resorted to the expedient
41 XXIX | point of embarking at 7 a.m. when the “Chancellor” all
42 LV | today.”~The sailors, taken aback by his suggestion, stared
43 XLVII | quiet Andre’s feeling of abhorrence; in his disgust and loathing
44 XXXI | have mutually agreed to abide by the rules that have been
45 IV | haunted by some deep and abiding sorrow. He never laughs;
46 XIII | found him in a state of abject terror, uttering horrible
47 LI | maniac was conversing with absent friends, inviting them into
48 XL | really seemed as though the absorption of the substance afforded
49 XLVII | exposed by him was quite absurd; in a moment he would himself
50 IV | gracefully performs her duties accepting without a murmur the paltry
51 X | hermetically closed every accessible aperture, and has even taken
52 XXXIII | being carried overboard, an accident that would at once have
53 XII | had resigned of his own accord, for although he might not
54 XXVII | for the consequences.~In accordance with my advice, Mrs. Kear
55 XVII | hydrography if we were to take an accurate plan of the rocks, of which
56 XXI | and the channel might be accurately marked out by buoys; in
57 XLVIII | moderation, “we are not accusing you of anything; we know
58 XXIII | previous water-line. With aching arms and bleeding hands
59 XXI | thrown into the sea.~Picric acid is a crystalline bitter
60 II | precluded the formation of any acquaintanceships; but the monotony of the
61 XII | condition too truly was, I acquiesced in all that he required
62 XII | captain,” was the prompt acquiescence of the mate.~“I do not know
63 XIII | leave his cabin.~To-day, an acrid, nauseating smoke made its
64 XL | of brute beasts seemed to actuate our every movement.~For
65 XXXVII | the stomach produced an acute sensation of pain. A narcotic,
66 XII | the men were together, he addressed them very calmly, but very
67 XVII | At present the crew are adequate to the task of working them,
68 XIV | by her side.~No pen could adequately portray the horrors of this
69 XXI | running aground. Then we bade adieu to the scene of our three
70 XLII | quite out of our power to administer any antidote; all that we
71 XI | the young man preserved an admirable composure, and begged his
72 XV | consultation, to which I was admitted. They were all of opinion
73 XX | the “Chancellor” would not advance an inch. Was there time
74 L | reckons that we must be advancing at the rate of about three
75 XII | hand, the weather should be adverse, or the wind be boisterous,
76 XXIII | him, he said savagely,—~“I advise you not to touch me,” and
77 XXXIII | Bermudas and Ham Rock. I advised my companions to chew the
78 XLII | I use the word “attempt” advisedly; for the water at the bottom
79 XLIV | either the sharp edge of the adze or the pointed extremity
80 II | something of each other’s affairs, will doubtless lead us
81 VII | that day, little as it may affect us here in mid ocean, the
82 XLVII | that no organic disease had affected his tissues, and really
83 XLIII | continued in an undertone.~Affecting an indifference which I
84 IV | of bitterness tempered by affection, while his general expression
85 IV | more than your share of the affliction which has fallen upon you
86 XXXIII | contained a saccharine juice, affording considerable relief to their
87 XXXII | make a sort of tent, which affords some shelter from the burning
88 XL | sheltered position on the aft-part of the raft, that we have
89 XIV | crew, took refuge in the aft-quarters of the poop. Mrs. Kear was
90 XIII | calmest manner to mount the aft-shrouds, and installs himself at
91 XXVI | is it that they’ll all be afther lavin’ of the ship?”~He
92 LI | about our bodies goes far to aggravate the agonies of our thirst.
93 XLV | one another.~The heat was aggravated by the atmosphere being
94 XXIV | contributed their part towards aggravating our case. Our situation
95 XIV | Chancellor’s” side.~The men stood aghast; they were dumbfoundered.
96 XIV | was overcome by a nervous agitation that I could not suppress.~
97 III | whereof, I have signed three agreements, all of the same purport;
98 XVII | already taken.~M. Letourneur agrees to my proposal, Curtis has
99 X | him that he wanted to get ahead of the wind, and that he
100 XXXVIII| the blows which had been aimed at him, had caught hold
101 XXIX | and numbers of enormous air-bubbles were rising to the surface
102 LVII | fishermen who, with kind-hearted alacrity picked us up, and tended
103 XLVII | fellow- passengers; yet my alarm was vain. The idea of my
104 XI | begged his father not to be alarmed, as the danger was not immediate.
105 XI | made him aware that the alarming character of our situation
106 XXXIV | by adding salt to lighted alcohol.~“Are you afraid of a storm,
107 X | But Curtis is ever on the alert; he never leaves his post
108 VI | formidable accumulation of algae; her masts are circled with
109 XL | of hunger were somewhat allayed; but some of us revolted
110 IV | which is not unfrequently alleged to be characteristic of
111 XLVII | but small as it was it had alleviated my hunger, and I was now
112 XLI | the quantity was, it was allotted in strictly equal shares.
113 X | what could the engineer be alluding? Evidently he had not the
114 VII | 57 am. On consulting my almanac, I find that there will
115 XXXVII | 26th passed without any alteration in our circumstances, and
116 XLIII | Meanwhile the brig had altered her tack, and was moving
117 XLIII | For an hour our feelings alternated between hope and despair.
118 II | follow:— Mr. and Mrs. Kear, Americans, of Buffalo. Miss Herbey,
119 XLI | success was, excessive, and amounted almost to delirium. I went
120 IV | always ready to assist and amuse young Letourneur, who evidently
121 XVII | in his calculations, and amuses himself by tracing mechanical
122 XX | to the reef, she has been anchored fore and aft.~To all appearance,
123 XXIV | settle, The sea rose over my ancles and almost instinctively
124 LIII | one side of it was written Andr—; the rest of the word was
125 XVIII | outline in the prismatic angles, sharp as though chiselled
126 XI | him. With characteristic Anglo-Saxon incautiousness he had brought
127 XVII | situation, and endeavoured to animate him with the hope that we
128 XLV | distant rumblings which might announce an approaching storm, but
129 XLIII | certain it is that the announcement produced none of the effects
130 XX | passengers and crew, and announcing to them the facts of the
131 XVIII | the ship. I felt intensely annoyed, and resolved to intercede
132 XXXIV | There was, however, no answering roll of thunder, and the
133 IV | is for Andre; he seems to anticipate his most trifling wish,
134 V | scale than has yet been anticipated. Beneath the waves there
135 XLII | power to administer any antidote; all that we could devise
136 XLVIII | to your shares as much as anybody; but that isn’t it. It’s
137 | anywhere
138 L | seems to have sunk into apathy, and it is at times difficult
139 XXXVI | with half a pound a day apiece, will consume it all.~The
140 IV | to obtain some improved apparatus, and more especially to
141 VIII | interviews; the Captain apparently being bent upon some purpose,
142 LI | vanished, and his thirst was appeased. It was hard not to wish
143 XLIV | spite of our prostration, we appreciate the moderation, slight as
144 XXXII | party, and I have never appreciated the young man so well. His
145 XLIV | restraint. It is not to be apprehended that the miserable fellow
146 XXIX | Two of the sailors and an apprentice, beside themselves with
147 III | aforesaid, with all its appurtenances. In witness whereof, I have
148 XXXI | placed spurs of wood, forming arched buttresses, on either side.
149 XVIII | beautiful grotto, perfect as an architectural structure, arrested our
150 XXXIV | each flash covering large arcs, varying from 100deg. to
151 XXII | resignation rather than with ardour; the labour was hard and
152 VI | vine, and as she works her arduous course, there are times
153 XVIII | harps to the breeze. This arid reef, little as it is, compared
154 LVII | necessary to say that there has arisen between the surviving passengers
155 VIII | there is no obvious result arising from their interviews; the
156 VIII | luxurious craft belonging to an aristocratic yacht-club was ever subject
157 II | bustle of embarkation, the arrangement of cabins, and all the variety
158 1 | where I found the internal arrangements perfectly comfortable. Yielding
159 XXXIII | medicine could permanently arrest. His sharp dry cough, his
160 XII | must abandon all hope of arresting the fire; the heat towards
161 LV | to wait a moment after it arrived. As for the captain, it
162 XVIII | when the hour of departure arrives we shall leave it with regret.~
163 XXXV | for with the speed of an arrow the squall was upon us,
164 XXVIII | language of metallurgic art, they were men “at the highest
165 XXXIV | different to the sharp crash of artillery, rises and falls like the
166 XXXIV | of the most accomplished ARTISTE have never moved me like
167 XXI | the reef, and Andre with artistic skill, carved on the wall
168 XVIII | upon the reef, and began to ascend the gradual slope that leads
169 XIV | column of sooty vapour that ascended to the sky. All the passengers,
170 XVII | descending from above and that ascending from below. This scheme
171 XXII | valves being choked up by the ashes and bits of cotton that
172 XIX | heavily-laden vessel had been thrown ashore did not result in the smashing
173 VI | Atlantic has presented an aspect so remarkable, that at my
174 XII | boatswain, and ordered him to assemble the crew at the foot of
175 X | 20th, the passengers were assembled on the poop. Evidently they
176 XX | Curtis lost no time in assembling passengers and crew, and
177 XVIII | murmured some expression of assent, and we all felt that there
178 XXII | silenced by Miss Herbey asserting her confidence that all
179 XXIV | ordered to continue their work assiduously at the pumps, until the
180 LIII | drawn, and to each would be assigned his share of the body of
181 XXXVIII| minds! Had we not always associated the opening of another year
182 LII | longer. All the events and associations of my life passed rapidly
183 XLV | melted one into another and assumed an uniform dull grey tint;
184 XXI | 21st to 24th.—There was assuredly no time to be lost before
185 XXXIX | have had anything to eat?”~Astonished at his question, I replied
186 XLIII | hours, she will come right athwart our track.”~A couple of
187 XXXVIII| ensued. Owen and Wilson attacked Curtis, who defended himself
188 XXXVIII| the negro Jynxtrop, who attempted to strike me with the hammer
189 XLIV | a few more unsuccessful attempts, but as the whirl was lost,
190 XXV | continues in her unwearied attendance. The space to which these
191 XXXVIII| standing in a threatening attitude. They had taken possession
192 XXXVII | coloured rag might do by way of attracting some voracious fish, and
193 XLIV | proof even against this attraction.~Reduced once again to a
194 XXXVIII| hardened effrontery.~But the audacious reply saved his life; Curtis
195 XL | voice that was scarcely audible from weakness, he said,—~“
196 LVII | drawn up by the Brazilian authorities. Those who signed were Miss
197 XVI | captain, passive, like an automaton, passed on and took his
198 1 | latitudes the weather in early autumn is fine and unbroken, I
199 XXXVII | opium or tobacco, might have availed to soothe, if not to cure,
200 XV | quenched and the explosion averted.~And certainly their hopes
201 XL | and sucked with the utmost avidity. Never shall I forget the
202 XXXVIII| made a sidelong movement to avoid the blow, and the weapon
203 XLIV | turned to their places, to await the end that cannot now
204 XLVI | I was neither asleep nor awake. How long I remained in
205 XXXIV | are always rather those of awe than of fear,” she replied. “
206 XIII | I’ll cleave your skull.”~Awed by his determined manner,
207 XXXIV | atmosphere seemed almost awful, For a couple of hours,
208 XXV | contrived to make a temporary awning of a sail. Mr. Kear has
209 XXXIX | kind of lethargy. When I awoke, I was surprised to find
210 IV | of lace stretched upon an azure ground.~The Atlantic is
211 XXI | running aground. Then we bade adieu to the scene of our
212 XI | board with the rest of his baggage, a case containing no less
213 XX | inevitably go to pieces if left balanced upon the ridge. In an instant
214 III | with the utmost care, each bale being pressed into its proper
215 XX | bar; after which, he might ballast her sufficiently to sail.~
216 XXI | sail until she had been ballasted; and for the next twenty-four
217 XLIX | Herbey had folded some wet bandages around my forehead. I am
218 XII | his forehead as though to, banish some distressing thought,
219 VIII | while as they ran about bare-footed, I could not resist the
220 XXVI | altogether. But at length the bargain was struck, and I saw Mr.
221 VI | different turn to what I bargained for when I took my passage
222 XX | anywhere else than on a barren reef, that may at any time
223 XX | said to be LIFTED over the barrier into her present position.
224 XXXIV | nature.”~“Rather a deep bass, though,” I said, laughing.~“
225 LI | beyond human estimate.~Even bathing, the only means of refreshment
226 LI | that we had was so old and battered, that it would not bear
227 1 | afternoon when we leave the Battery-quay; the ebb carries us off
228 1 | Chancellor” briskly across the bay. Fort Sumter ere long is
229 XIV | wave; she rises upon her beam ends; several times she
230 XXXIX | demeanour. I cannot say that he bears his privations without a
231 XXIX | more. Curtis, bruised and beaten with the surf that raged
232 XVIII | not gone very far when a beautiful grotto, perfect as an architectural
233 IV | characteristic of English beauty. Her mouth would be charming
234 XLVIII | devoted father to pieces. I beckoned to Curtis for protection,
235 XXVI | began talking.~“And why, bedad, I’d like to know, why is
236 XXXIX | and although her torn and bedraggled garments float dejectedly
237 IX | aperture which we have not beep able to discover, by which,
238 XI | admirable composure, and begged his father not to be alarmed,
239 XII | will shirk nothing that he believes to be for our common good.
240 1 | of 900 tons burden, and belongs to the wealthy Liverpool
241 XLV | clouds, and M. Letourneur, on bended knee, was raising his hands,
242 XXXV | happily the mast, already bending almost double, was removed
243 XXVIII | was possessed rather by a benumbed indifference than by any
244 V | made of the leaves of the Bermuda palm.”~“Yes,” I replied, “
245 XXXVIII| days? In the streets of a besieged city, dire as the distress
246 IV | slightly contracted brow all betokened a man of energy, thoroughly
247 XVI | resumed its sombre hue, betokening deep water. In all probability,
248 XII | captain, his haggard eye betraying only too plainly some mental
249 LII | though they had come to bid me a last farewell.~Towards
250 XI | voice was heard peremptorily bidding them to desist; he assured
251 XXX | together. The cords that bind it will have a tremendous
252 XVIII | carried to its surface, not a bird had taken refuge amidst
253 IV | mother, who died at his birth.”~“He is full of reverence
254 XIII | of cases of salt meat and biscuits, a cask of brandy, some
255 XXXVII | we did not get a single bite. For two days the attempt
256 XLIV | had closed its jaws, and bitten through the wooden handle
257 XIII | appearance, his face all blackened with the grimy smoke; he
258 VII | to it; I asked him point blank.~“What was the matter in
259 XXVI | with his hair and beard bleached with the storms of many
260 XXIII | ears protrude, whilst his bleared and bloodshot eyes are encircled
261 III | Charleston, do purpose, by the blessing of God, at the earliest
262 XXXV | succession. Our eyes were blinded, our ears deafened, with
263 XXXVIII| Curtis, as he raised his blood-stained hatchet, “make your peace
264 XLVI | rather than my vision, like a bloodhound in the track of his prey,
265 L | unintelligible. Wasted and bloodless, we are no longer human
266 XXIII | whilst his bleared and bloodshot eyes are encircled with
267 LV | staunchly bent upon their bloody purpose.~“Come, come, no
268 XLII | and he brought off some bluish secretion from his stomach,
269 XLVII | and ever since the first blush of day I had laboured under
270 XX | long portion of the inside boarding had been burnt away, and
271 V | I know. Let the natives boast as they will about their
272 LII | steam that issues from a boiler. It was to be my last day
273 XIX | by strong iron-belts and bolts. The shrouds, the stays
274 LVII | passengers of the “Chancellor” a bond of friendship too indissoluble,
275 XXXVIII| that will furnish a dry bone or a scrap of refuse that
276 V | ladies would wear no other bonnets than such as were made of
277 L | his chest, and his long, bony hands lying upon knees that
278 XIII | be all we need.~“Why not bore the deck?” I said to Curtis. “
279 XIV | son tightly clasped to his bosom. I saw Falsten calmly consult
280 XI | feel in smuggling a single bottle of wine. He had not informed
281 XLVIII | disappointed cannibals knew no bounds.~Yet who had ventured to
282 XII | higher hands than mine.”~We bowed our heads in a silence which
283 XX | several times.~“Now, my boys,” said Curtis in his calm
284 VII | and gallant-sails. Well braced she was; and under a fresh,
285 XLV | myself I found it not merely brackish, but briny as the sea itself.
286 XXXVIII| with the hammer which he brandished in his hand. I endeavoured
287 XXXVIII| had knocked a hole in the brandy-barrel, and had recklessly swallowed
288 LVII | rescue was drawn up by the Brazilian authorities. Those who signed
289 XXXI | from the Antilles or the Brazils, we cannot reckon at all
290 XXXV | without hindrance through the breach.~The carpenter and his mates
291 VII | continent and island.~At the breakfast hour M. Letourneur and Andre
292 XXXVIII| look at one another, and breathe a new year’s greeting?~The
293 XXXIII | sharp dry cough, his short breathing, his profuse perspirations,
294 XXVII | effect their escape, and had bribed the three sailors to seize
295 LVII | have only to relate, as briefly as possible, the circumstances
296 XLV | very transient; already a bright streak of light along the
297 IV | replied M. Letourneur, brightening up into a smile, “his afflicted
298 XXXIV | The lightning increased in brilliancy, and appeared from all quarters
299 XXXIII | contracted lips, the too brilliant eye and wasted form—all
300 XXXI | perceptible progress under the brisk breeze.~As soon as we had
301 XLVI | membranes of my tongue almost bristled with the intenseness of
302 1 | South Carolina and Great Britain, and all who wish to cross
303 1 | Charleston harbour, it was the British flag that was lowered from
304 XX | turn quite round at its broadest part, and by means of hawsers
305 XXIX | were seen no more. Curtis, bruised and beaten with the surf
306 LIV | could attack their prey with brutal voracity; it seemed almost
307 II | Mrs. Kear, Americans, of Buffalo. Miss Herbey, a young English
308 XV | steadily spreading to the whole bulk of the 1700 bales of cotton.~
309 IV | paltry salary which the bumptious petroleum-merchant condescends
310 XXIV | had first been securely bunged, and were lashing them to
311 XXII | increased she no longer rose buoyantly with the waves, but pitched
312 XXI | accurately marked out by buoys; in this way it was conjectured
313 XXI | retreat.~The train was to burn for ten minutes, and at
314 XXXII | so intense, and the sun burns with such an incessant glare,
315 XX | inside boarding had been burnt away, and the very ribs
316 XIII | are heard, caused by the bursting asunder of the partitions
317 XXI | twenty-four hours the crew were busily employed in taking up blocks
318 LIV | about to act the part of butcher, and Dowlas stood, hatchet
319 LV | alive to prevent it, this butchery should not be permitted,
320 XX | all started away from the butt-ends and seams; so much so that
321 XXXI | of wood, forming arched buttresses, on either side. While he
322 LI | wealth of a nation could not buy a drop of water here. There
323 IV | years of his life in mere buying and selling, and as he has
324 IV | visiblement fait pour penser. C’est toute sa dignite et
325 VII | reading by the light of my cabin-lamp, I retired to my berth and
326 LV | longed-for sail, lying only a few cables’ lengths away.~But when
327 XXIX | which had drifted about two cables-lengths away; but, in spite of all
328 IV | belonging to the firm of Messrs. Cail. He is forty-five years
329 LIII | had not yet been drawn. I calculated my remaining chance; it
330 XXVII | eight we heard the boatswain calling to the sailors in the bows.~“
331 XXXVI | of rain had the effect of calming the severity of the hurricane,
332 XVIII | there was the same dark canopied roof with its interstices
333 II | sole experience of their capabilities is, that under the command
334 XL | leather hat, the rims of caps, in short, anything that
335 XVI | feared she would altogether capsize; that fear, however, since
336 XXV | diminish the chance of her capsizing altogether.~“But may she
337 XXXVIII| want? Why, we want no more captains; we are all equals now.”~
338 XI | resistance the miserable man was captured and safely lodged in confinement
339 XLIV | swallow up our miserable carcases; yet, withal, I profess
340 LII | were still alive, I hardly cared to know; it seemed as though
341 XIX | repairing the damage would be to careen the ship, and to shift the
342 LIV | then he lavished on his son caresses which he deemed to be his
343 IV | general expression is one of caressing tenderness. It excites an
344 LIV | crouched beneath the sails, caring nothing about scanning the
345 LIV | they waited like a herd of carnivora until they could attack
346 VI | strangest interest. The sea, carpeted thickly with masses of prolific
347 XXI | Andre with artistic skill, carved on the wall of the grotto
348 XXXIII | action of the waves. Our casks of food and water were secured
349 LII | as I was on the point of casting myself headlong into the
350 XIV | leaps on to the netting, casts a rapid glance at the snow-
351 X | replied to him in a very casual tone, he passed no further
352 XLVI | I crept stealthily as a cat under the sails and between
353 XVIII | a fit vestibule for the cathedral cave of Staffa. The basaltic
354 XX | took care thoroughly to caulk from the outside all the
355 XVII | leak, too, that has to be caulked; and, unless it is stopped
356 XXII | sprung afresh, or whether the caulking in some of the seams was
357 XX | considerably damaged; the oakum caulkings had all started away from
358 XVI | tides; whilst a sort of causeway, available at low water,
359 XXII | under the circumstances, caution was far more important than
360 VI | upon that matter,” was his cautious reply.~“Well to say the
361 LVII | route. A vessel took us to Cayenne, where we secured a passage
362 V | of number, silently but ceaselessly pursuing their labours;
363 IV | visit the mines worked by centrifugal force, belonging to the
364 XLIII | our ears like a couple of centuries. The ship might change her
365 V | rage in the seventeenth century, although laterly they have
366 LI | hearing—all were gone; but the cerebral derangement supplied their
367 XLIII | The salt water began to chafe my legs, but although the
368 XLVII | in good health when his chagrin drove him to his desperate
369 V | encircled by their formidable chain of breakers.~“There,” said
370 X | worth recording if I had not chanced to overhear a fragment of
371 XVIII | cave in miniature; a Gothic chapel that might form a fit vestibule
372 XLV | the appearance of being charged with electricity. Thus our
373 XXVIII | afternoon has been employed in charging the raft with such provisions,
374 IV | beauty. Her mouth would be charming if she ever smiled, but
375 1 | sailing vessel had certain charms beyond the transit in a
376 XX | set to work to repair the charred frame-work of the ribs,
377 III | inclusive, according to the charter-party and damages in addition,
378 XLVI | often, do something that cheated us into believing that we
379 IX | measure within our power to check the fire. At one time I
380 XVI | the very life of his crew, cheering them on by word or gesture;
381 XII | packing together the more cherished articles of his property
382 XXXIII | advised my companions to chew the laminary tangles, which
383 XX | upon the poop, giving his chief attention to the sails;
384 LIV | suspense and misery; the chimeras that were floating through
385 VI | chooses to take the ship to China we should obey his orders.”~“
386 IV | in his pockets, and the chink of money seems to follow
387 XVIII | the rocks, knocking and chipping them about with all the
388 XVIII | angles, sharp as though chiselled by a sculptor’s hand; the
389 XXXVIII| now, armed with hatchets, chisels, and hammers, they were
390 VI | mate; “but if the captain chooses to take the ship to China
391 XXVIII | same time exhibiting a calm Christian fortitude, which was shown
392 1 | whether the lines of my chronicle will ever find a reader.~
393 VI | of algae; her masts are circled with hydrophytes; her rigging
394 XVI | rim of a small and almost circular basin from 250 to 300 feet
395 XLVI | coolness that rarely fails to circulate just above the water. My
396 XL | putting the mucus’ into circulation at length, by dint of an
397 XXXVIII| the streets of a besieged city, dire as the distress may
398 XV | clinging to the netting, he clambered along the starboard side,
399 XIII | manner, the men retire, some clambering into the shrouds, whilst
400 XLVIII | disturbed by hearing an angry clamour going on outside the tent;
401 XLVII | private store which, by clandestine cunning, he had reserved.
402 XX | windlass; click, click, clanked the chains as link by link
403 XV | thus come to a standstill a clanking of chains was heard proceeding
404 XI | obliged for a moment or two to clasp his hands tightly together
405 XIV | Letourneur held his son tightly clasped to his bosom. I saw Falsten
406 1 | She is registered first class A I, and is now on her third
407 XXXVIII| planks, so many times washed clean by the relentless waves,
408 XXII | moment that was spent in cleaning or repairing them was so
409 X | distinguished by such extraordinary cleanliness, but as I replied to him
410 XX | her stern, however, just cleared the obstruction, Curtis
411 XVI | however minute, broke the clearly-defined line that joined sea and
412 XLIV | their appearance to-day, cleaving the water rapidly with their
413 XLIV | boatswain, who stood with clenched teeth and dilated eye, regarded
414 II | frowns, sets his teeth, or clenches his fist. There is something
415 XIX | was an operation which was cleverly accomplished by Dowlas and
416 V | will about their splendid climate, they, are visited by the
417 XXV | whither his father and I climbed up beside him.~I now had
418 LII | although Curtis might still cling to the hope of reaching
419 LV | violently into the sea.~Closing my lips, I tried to die
420 XLVI | under a thick roll of sail- cloth, I was not long in securing
421 XXXV | were discharged from the cloud- batteries above. In fact,
422 LII | Fierce sunbeams pierced the cloud-rifts, scorching and burning our
423 XXXIV | to meteorologists as a “cloud-ring,” and scarcely ever seen
424 XXXIII | again excessive. The sky was cloudless, and as there was not enough
425 VI | precise position, as the cloudy atmosphere entirely precludes
426 XXII | labouring far too heavily, he clued up the top-gallants, prudently
427 LVII | themselves together at the stern) clustered in a group, and kept our
428 XXI | bitter product extracted from coal- tar, and forming, in combination
429 XXXIV | flame, and the very sailors, coarse-minded men as they were, seemed
430 XXXII | not think that even the coarsest of the sailors has either
431 1 | last sandy point is safely coasted, and at length, at seven
432 XVIII | shelving shores prevented us coasting along them. There was not
433 XI | Falsten, and myself were cognizant of the terrible secret.~
434 IV | Huntly’s character very much coincided with my own, and that, like
435 LII | I was utterly unable to collect my ideas sufficiently to
436 XLV | economize what little had been collected by the barrel, or imbibed
437 XII | since, fully occupied in collecting and packing together the
438 IV | allowed my son to go to college, but instructed him entirely
439 XXXV | and as my head came in collision with the corner of a spar,
440 XXXIII | At the conclusion of the colloquy Owen got up and walked deliberately
441 1 | French Transatlantic line of Colon and Aspinwall. But it was
442 XXXVII | boatswain tried what a piece of coloured rag might do by way of attracting
443 1 | her mast-head; but without colours at all, no sailor could
444 VI | impeded the progress of Columbus’s vessels on his first voyage
445 XXIX | were quite powerless to combat the winds and waves. Escape
446 XXI | coal- tar, and forming, in combination with potash, a yellow salt
447 XII | there being thirty pounds of combustible matter in the hold.~“No”
448 1 | internal arrangements perfectly comfortable. Yielding to the idea that
449 IV | poop.~As soon as Andre was comfortably seated on one of the benches,
450 XII | fulfils her offices of duty, commands my highest admiration.~OCTOBER
451 LIV | my ear,—~“Mr. Kazallon, I commend my boy to your care, and
452 III | Messrs. Bronsfield and Co., Commission Agents, Charleston, and
453 XXXIX | to console me with empty commonplaces; you know as well as I do
454 XVIII | to the “Chancellor,” and communicated the result of our explorations
455 XII | announced, Mr. Kear, after communicating to Curtis his instructions
456 III | freight forms one solid and compact mass; not an inch of space
457 V | laterly they have fallen into comparative oblivion.”~“But let me tell
458 VI | are times when I can only compare her to an animated grove
459 XVIII | arid reef, little as it is, compared with the cramped limits
460 XIII | provisions as the heat of the compartment allowed him to obtain; and
461 XXXIII | share for his use. Kind and compassionate as ever, the young girl
462 IX | of his freight has been compelled to unload with the utmost
463 XLVI | knew that nothing could compensate for the lack of nutritive
464 XI | quite true,” said Ruby, complacently, thinking that the worst
465 III | capable of carrying her full complement of cargo.~
466 XXVII | would founder before the completion of the raft, Kear and Huntly
467 IV | is extremely pretty. Her complexion is fair and her eyes deep
468 XLII | the captain, in order to comply with my request, was about
469 IV | originality or magnanimity in his composition, he has spent twenty years
470 XXI | had been introduced the compound was rammed closely into
471 IX | situation and thoroughly comprehended how we were in the very
472 XLIX | and again, incapable of comprehending how powerless it was to
473 V | this little archipelago, comprising some hundred and fifty different
474 XXV | removing everything that could compromise the equilibrium of the ship
475 X | at the helm, and without compromising the safety of the vessel,
476 XI | the hold with as little compunction as a Frenchman would feel
477 XXII | the fact could not be long concealed. I told M. Letourneur that
478 XLVII | Meanwhile, there was no concealing the truth that we were ourselves
479 IX | the absolute necessity for concealment.~
480 IV | wherever he goes. Vain and conceited, a fool as well as an egotist,
481 XVIII | down into the same regular concentric prisms; there was the same
482 XII | potash to ignite without concussion?”~“Certainly it is,” replied
483 XXXV | by a series of electrical concussions, in which volleys of hailstones
484 XX | long voyage, and would be condemned as unseaworthy at any port
485 LII | there was any sunlight to condense the vapour; the horizon
486 XVI | start off again.”~Curtis condescended to make no other reply than
487 IV | bumptious petroleum-merchant condescends to allow her.~The Manchester
488 XXXIV | of the air made it a weak conductor. Evidently the fluid could
489 X | taken place. Curtis has confided the result to me. He says
490 XXX | face the future; the most confident dares to think only of the
491 XXXIV | reservoir of electricity was confined to the higher strata of
492 XL | described has only served to confirm my previous suspicions of
493 XXXVIII| boatswain, whilst I was left to confront the negro Jynxtrop, who
494 XXXIII | upon his lips, Owen stood confronting the captain; then, as though
495 XVI | was rather a matter for congratulation, inasmuch as it sufficed
496 XLV | had been lying, and mutual congratulations, mingled with gratitude,
497 XXI | buoys; in this way it was conjectured the ship might be got over
498 XLIII | vessel, and made all sorts of conjectures as to the direction she
499 XIII | his own profession; but in connexion with that he prated away
500 XLVII | with a strange anxiety. My conscience told me that Hobart had
501 XII | now under the command of a conscientious, energetic man, who will
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