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502 XLVII | Herbey, Andre nor his father, consent to alleviate their pangs
503 VIII | the captain know by his consequential and haughty manner that
504 1 | material difference in time; considering, moreover, that in these
505 III | of Charleston, and the consignees are Laird Brothers, of Liverpool.
506 XXXII | and although our tackle consisted merely of long cords baited
507 XLIII | that the flesh had not even consistency enough for any fragments
508 XXXIX | Yes; but they have one consolation; they die the soonest;”
509 XXXIX | impatiently, “don’t try to console me with empty commonplaces;
510 VIII | whether there was not some conspiracy among the crew, of which
511 XXXIV | and after the zodiacal constellations had disappeared in the mists
512 XXXII | and tear of our physical constitution, we managed very well. Our
513 XXXIX | imagine.”~“The strongest constitutions suffer the most, do they
514 XXXIII | overcome our fears, and feel constrained to indulge ourselves with
515 XXXVII | nervous system, and the constriction of the stomach produced
516 XIV | bosom. I saw Falsten calmly consult his watch, and note down
517 XXXIII | that the poor fellow is consumptive, and that that hopeless
518 XXI | and was large enough to contain about ten pounds of explosive
519 XXVIII | which, one and all, we now contemplated the fate before us? For
520 LIII | in fact, it had been in contemplation for several days, but no
521 XII | stick to our place, and contend with the flames to the very
522 XLV | possession, we were not only contented for the present, but sanguine
523 XV | elements were in fierce contention. Some plank in the ship’
524 XII | him responsible for all contingencies that might happen, retired
525 XXXI | reckon at all upon such a contingency happening in our favour;
526 XII | science, is not necessary, but contingent.”~“But tell me, Mr. Falsten,”
527 XLII | the breeze did not return. Continuance of high temperature in daytime
528 VIII | sheet of water, supplied continuously by the pumps was rolling
529 XLII | writhed with the most hideous contortions, and had all the appearance
530 XXXIV | vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around
531 V | you can always find one to contradict another. Although Waller
532 VIII | fresh and cool, in strange contrast to the heat which below
533 XX | not be brought to bear and contribute its assistance. Without
534 XXIV | washed over the deck and contributed their part towards aggravating
535 XXXI | carpenter set to work to contrive some sort of a rudder, that
536 X | safety of the vessel, he contrives by tacking to the breeze,
537 III | of God, at the earliest convenient season, and by the direct
538 VII | the curt reply.~They then conversed for a few moments in an
539 XLIII | what strange fatality had converted it into a water-cask, or
540 XI | would be that he might be convicted of a little smuggling.~I
541 LIV | to leeward.~I imparted my convictions to M. Letourneur and his
542 XVIII | some mighty subterranean convulsion. It is formed of blocks
543 XLVI | to myself “this must be cooked meat that I can smell.”~
544 XVIII | The basaltic rocks had cooled down into the same regular
545 XLVI | relief by inhaling the moist coolness that rarely fails to circulate
546 VI | ahull, that is to say, she copes directly with the wind,
547 II | physically or morally, capable of coping with any great emergency,
548 VIII | Chancellor’s” pumps afford a copious supply of water, so that
549 XLIII | time or other contained copperas; but what strange fatality
550 XII | Walter and the boatswain most cordially joined.~The ship still holds
551 XVIII | Chancellor” had been stranded, corresponded to the hollow place above
552 XXXVI | ration into several portions, corresponding, I believe, to the number
553 XLII | suspect that he had taken some corrosive poison. Of course it was
554 XXVI | and I return to my uneasy couch close to the larboard shrouds.~
555 III | conditions of transport, is couched in the following terms:—~“
556 XXXIII | permanently arrest. His sharp dry cough, his short breathing, his
557 XXI | may be knocked to atoms. Couldn’t we manage to blow up the
558 LII | rapidly through my brain, My country, my friends, and my family
559 III | fulfilment of the above covenant, I have pledged and do pledge
560 IX | want terrified women and cowardly men to add to our embarrassment;
561 XXVI | stays. For the passengers, cowering on their narrow and unstable
562 LI | every step, and singing in a cracked, discordant voice, he staggered
563 XXXV | clouds came rolling up, and a crackling, like the rattle of musketry,
564 VIII | daintiest and most luxurious craft belonging to an aristocratic
565 XVIII | taken refuge amidst the crags upon its summits. To a lover
566 XVIII | it is, compared with the cramped limits of the “Chancellor’
567 VI | The joists and girders all creak again until one’s teeth
568 XXVII | platform on which we stood creaked and groaned with the swaying
569 XVIII | almost fancy that it had been created expressly for the ‘Chancellor’
570 XVIII | ham, of which the little creek, where the “Chancellor”
571 VI | wreathed everywhere with creepers, fantastic as the untrammelled
572 XXXIV | appeared like embattled turrets crested with flame, and the very
573 XXII | the land before the last crisis came. Falsten was about
574 XX | found that the deck and the cross-beams that supported it had been
575 LIV | their places. The sailors crouched beneath the sails, caring
576 XXII | although Curtis would not crowd on all sail lest the extra
577 X | The “Chancellor” is now crowded with all the canvas she
578 XIII | much imperilled; but by crowding on sail the “Chancellor”
579 XII | course south-west and Curtis crowds on all sail and makes as
580 XVIII | the basaltic prism that crowned its summit.~Andre took a
581 XLVII | my heart I repented of my cruel selfishness.~Meantime the
582 XLIX | drops of water and a few crumbs of biscuit, I do not doubt
583 XL | kindness we had shown him. A crumpled letter fell from his hand,
584 XXXV | first the waves had been crushed and flattened as it were
585 XVIII | effect of being one gigantic crystal; and the remarkable transparency
586 XXI | the sea.~Picric acid is a crystalline bitter product extracted
587 XLVII | store which, by clandestine cunning, he had reserved. But, in
588 VII | and Andre went below for a cup of tea, and I remained on
589 XXIII | sinister-looking wrinkles, his lips curl inwards, and his ears protrude,
590 XLII | only the crest of some curling wave.~A deep dejection followed
591 VII | Nothing, whatever,” was the curt reply.~They then conversed
592 III | according to the usages and customs of the sea.~“And for the
593 XIII | the poop, and seizing a cutlass, Curtis shouts again,—~“
594 VIII | stockings I proceeded to dabble in the flowing water.~Great
595 VIII | not suppose that even the daintiest and most luxurious craft
596 III | to the charter-party and damages in addition, according to
597 XLIII | troublesome to light; but the very dampness made the smoke more dense,
598 XXX | future; the most confident dares to think only of the present.
599 XXVI | overclouded; the sea, is darkened, and I return to my uneasy
600 XXVII | enraged were they at the dastardly trick of which they had
601 XXI | given to the reef,—and the date of our running aground.
602 XIII | Touch the tackling of the davit, one of you; only touch
603 XLVII | and the first streaks of dawn appeared. There is no twilight
604 XLII | Continuance of high temperature in daytime is a sure proof that we
605 LVII | Aspinwall line, the “Ville de St. Nazaire,” which conveyed
606 XXXV | eyes were blinded, our ears deafened, with the roar and glare.
607 LVII | that she may be united by a dearer and a closer tie, and that
608 XLIX | by the most deplorable of deaths. I was quite conscious that
609 XXXIII | witness to a slow but sure decay.~To-day, the 20th, the temperature
610 XLIX | It is out of my power to decide for how long I lost my consciousness;
611 XLIII | almost directly; it had decomposed so rapidly that the flesh
612 XXXII | in a way that she could deem offensive.~The 12th, 13th,
613 XXIX | standing on the main-top, deeming it not only his duty, but
614 XXXVIII| disposal, we were ready to defend ourselves to the very last
615 XXXVIII| Wilson attacked Curtis, who defended himself with a piece of
616 II | his character, that I must defer saying more about him at
617 XLIV | that cannot now be long deferred.~Just as I moved away I
618 XXIII | captain with a frown of defiance; but at a sign from Jynxtrop
619 LII | bounded sea and sky, unbroken, definite, distinct as ever! Curtis
620 IV | His left leg is miserably deformed, and he is quite unable
621 IV | his drooping head, his dejected manner, and his eye, ever
622 XXXIX | bedraggled garments float dejectedly about her body, she never
623 XLIII | taking. Curtis was far more deliberate in his judgment. After examining
624 LVII | Miss Herbey, after some deliberation, consented to become a member
625 IV | foam as well defined as a delicate strip of lace stretched
626 IV | his physical weakness, he delights in travelling; so for the
627 III | Liverpool, and there to deliver, free from injury (save
628 XVI | a word of thanks to his deliverer, the ex- captain, passive,
629 III | representative, who shall on due delivery of the said freight pay
630 LI | money! lots! lots!”~Poor deluded wretch! I thought again;
631 XIX | heavy bales which had been deluged so frequently by water that
632 XXIV | sailors had taken their delusive refuge in the shrouds, and
633 XVII | necessary.~With no immediate demand upon our labour, we are
634 XVI | do all that common sense demands. He proposes, when the fire
635 XXXIX | hypocritical about his whole demeanour. I cannot say that he bears
636 XLIX | he shrieked out with a demoniacal grin, “Drink, drink!” and
637 X | of a conversation which demonstrated that our situation hitherto
638 X | the captain, is completely demoralized; he has lost all power and
639 XLVII | Hobart had the right to denounce me in the presence of all
640 XVII | merely replied, that it must depend upon circumstances, and
641 XXXII | that we are not entirely dependent on the wind. Certain indications,
642 XXV | upon the poop.~“Everything depends upon the weather,” he replied,
643 XL | but how otherwise can I depict the misery, moral and physical,
644 V | supposed that Shakspeare was depicting them in the terrible scenes
645 XXIX | loss of which he so much deplored.~“Now then, old fellow off
646 XXXII | The young lady’s modest deportment and energy of character
647 XXI | hollow out a mine wherein to deposit the powder. At first we
648 XXXVI | away in silence. A general depression has fallen upon all: the
649 LV | Stop! I don’t want to deprive you of your ration; but
650 IX | perhaps the conflagration deprived of oxygen may smoulder itself
651 XXXIX | he would think I had been depriving myself for him. Let me implore
652 XXII | threatens to swallow us into its depths.~
653 XLIII | the benefit we felt we had derived, could induce Miss Herbey
654 XXV | way; but I said nothing, deriving what comfort I could from
655 XXXV | meteoric shower continued to descend, and during that time the
656 XLIV | of water, made its slow descent. But one by one the sharks
657 XL | the scene that I have just described has only served to confirm
658 III | to say, the document that describes the “Chancellor’s” cargo
659 V | was land to windward, and descried what seemed as if it might
660 XXVII | chance should bring the deserters again on board I should
661 XXXIX | her sense of duty never deserts her, and although her torn
662 III | constructed with the especial design of carrying cotton, and
663 XXI | word “Chancellor,” —the designation Ham Rock, which we had given
664 IV | completed the explanation of his designs.~The last of our fellow-passengers,
665 XLIV | seized his hatchet, ready to despatch the brute the moment if
666 XIV | indeed. Notwithstanding the desperateness of our situation, however,
667 XLI | my bait,” he said, in a desponding voice.~“And you have no
668 XLVII | diet, escape that frightful destiny. Owing to his secret hoard
669 XXX | provisions in the store-room were destroyed at the time when the ship’
670 XVII | hope that we should not be detained for long in our present
671 XXXII | sailor’s eye alone could detect, make them almost sure that
672 VIII | probably Curtis had already detected the symptoms. I am quite
673 IV | struck with his physical development; his erect and easy carriage,
674 XLVI | possible means could be devised for securing one out of
675 XVII | frequent conversations; I also devote an hour or two to my diary.
676 LVII | retiring from the world and devoting the remainder of her life
677 LIII | peril as though he could devour him. M. Letourneur almost
678 XLVI | would bring, in rain or dew, the moisture of which we
679 XXVI | sailors, with practised dexterity, manage to hoist themselves
680 XVII | himself by tracing mechanical diagrams with ground-plan, section,
681 XVI | from 250 to 300 feet in diameter, in the north angle of which
682 XVII | devote an hour or two to my diary. Falsten holds little communication
683 1 | would be little material difference in time; considering, moreover,
684 XX | simple. But unlooked-for difficulties had yet to be surmounted.~
685 IV | pour penser. C’est toute sa dignite et tout-son merite;” but
686 XVII | to extricate us from our dilemma.”~Prompted by this conversation
687 XII | attentions, and the unremitted diligence with which she fulfils her
688 XL | circulation at length, by dint of an eager search, he came
689 X | hearing, but my attention was directed towards them by some very
690 XLIII | overheard; but Curtis gave directions that every possible signal
691 XXVI | rolling down like a bundle of dirty clothes on to the forecastle.~
692 LIV | other.~Meantime, I could not disabuse my mind of the impression
693 XXXIII | were evidently trying to disaffect their mates.~On the 19th
694 XXVII | informed of her husband’s disappearance. The unhappy lady is wasting
695 VIII | that the mate decidedly disapproves.~Captain Huntly is undoubtedly
696 XXXVIII| in addition to the other disasters caused by the hurricane,
697 XXVII | change which was equally disastrous to us, inasmuch as it was
698 XXXV | volleys of hailstones were discharged from the cloud- batteries
699 LI | and singing in a cracked, discordant voice, he staggered about
700 LIV | he did not give us any discouragement; Heaven, he said, he was
701 XXVI | soon at his side.~A long discussion ensued. The men evidently
702 XLVII | supported, so that no organic disease had affected his tissues,
703 XVIII | proposed that we should disembark. My companions readily assented,
704 XXV | although some of them could ill disguise their reluctance, all returned
705 XLVII | feeling of abhorrence; in his disgust and loathing he seemed for
706 XVI | s communication does not dishearten us. As I said before, our
707 XXXVII | raft has been repaired, the disjointed planks have been closed
708 XIX | can well understand the dislike which sailors always express
709 XXIII | way in through a general dislocation of the seams, we were unable
710 XXIII | accompanied him. After dislodging some of the bales of cotton
711 XIV | stem and stern.~I broke the dismal silence, saying “All over
712 XXX | to look forward without dismay to what in all human probability
713 LII | would, in course of time, dispel the vapour. Towards seven
714 LII | the surface of the ocean, dispelled the fog, and left the horizon
715 XXXVI | the sun broke through and dispersed the clouds that the storm
716 XXV | as she became vertically displaced, and probably it had been
717 LIV | lips distended, and teeth displayed, they waited like a herd
718 XLIX | water, and some huge sharks disporting themselves around the spot.~
719 VIII | sailors are most rebelliously disposed, and require to be ruled
720 II | indicate a weak and sluggish disposition. He does not appear as though
721 XXXV | that nothing but its total disruption could carry us away. Miss
722 X | very emphatic gestures of dissatisfaction on the part of Falsten,
723 LIII | sailors raised a murmur of dissent. As there were eleven of
724 XXI | action, will complete the disseverment of the basalt.”~Falsten
725 XXXVII | with which they were baited dissolved at once in the water, and
726 XLV | morning had been marked by the distinctness of their outline, had melted
727 XLVI | suppose I was in any way more distressed than my companions, who
728 XVI | driven. His next care was to distribute preserved meat and biscuit
729 XXXI | arranged that the food shall be distributed under the boatswain’s superintendence
730 XXXII | own, we are reluctant to disturb his silent meditations.~
731 XIX | Flaypole, who contrived to dive at low tide and nail a sheet
732 XIX | sailors, named Flaypole, dived one day at low water to
733 IV | My sole thought is how to divert him. I have discovered,
734 XLI | order, so that we might divide the fish into equal portions.
735 LIII | sublime in its calmness. I divined at once the reason of this
736 XXXII | to the species of spotted dog-fish, took their place. These
737 XII | delivering some philosophic dogma, observed,—~“The explosion,
738 XXXI | five gallons, it will be doled out with the strictest limitation,
739 XVIII | deck is like some vast domain; soon there will be scarcely
740 XXXVI | has doubtless but one idea dominant in his mind.~Once, as I
741 XIII | poop, simply because its door is elevated somewhat above
742 1 | Fort Sumter ere long is doubled, the sweeping batteries
743 XXXII | This marvellous haul was doubly welcome, inasmuch as it
744 XXXII | portion of their time in dozing on the fore part of the
745 XLIV | what strength they had to drag the rope, but so violent
746 XXXVIII| over on to the platform, dragging me with him. Andre Letourneur
747 XIX | every retreat of the tide, drained off to the level of the
748 XXX | registering the events of our drama, as scene after scene they
749 XLII | our ration. O for one good draught, even if it should exhaust
750 LVI | life-giving liquid in greedy draughts. Miss Herbey was the first
751 XVI | with a full freight she draws about fifteen. It was remarkable
752 XIV | was no volcano, such as we dreaded, below our feet.~At half-past
753 XLVI | moisture of which we are so dreadfully in need.~The moon was entering
754 XLVI | brought me to myself. Was I dreaming, or was there not really
755 LV | execution drew near, my dreams of deliverance melted away;
756 XLVI | I fell into a restless, dreamy doze. I was neither asleep
757 XXXI | evening; but as the only drinking-vessels in our possession are the
758 VI | in allowing the ship to drive to the south, instead of
759 1 | sails, the northerly breeze drives the “Chancellor” briskly
760 VI | deck notwithstanding the driving rain, fine as dust, which
761 IV | older than he really is: his drooping head, his dejected manner,
762 XLVI | change of position, or the dropping of the wind. At length I
763 XLIII | surface of the water. As a drowning man clutches at a straw,
764 XXIV | some time in a state of drowsy unconsciousness, was not
765 XXVII | a case like Mrs. Kear’s, drugs would be of no avail.~
766 XXXVIII| miserable wretches were all drunk, for during the night they
767 XXXIV | unaccompanied by thunder; but the dryness of the air made it a weak
768 XIV | stood aghast; they were dumbfoundered. Long-boat and yawl both
769 XXVII | which they had been made the dupes, that if chance should bring
770 XXXIX | and, as it was growing dusk, nobody observed what we
771 VI | the driving rain, fine as dust, which penetrates to my
772 XXI | that of gun-cotton or of dynamite, but far greater than that
773 XXXIII | allowance of water, and the eagerness with which those lukewarm
774 III | blessing of God, at the earliest convenient season, and by
775 XI | regretted my words. Most earnestly I wished them unuttered,
776 XXXI | emotion that evidenced their earnestness, the captain consulted his
777 XIII | quenched; and what would be easier than to pump the water out
778 XXI | common powder. Picrate is easily ignited by any sharp or
779 XXXVIII| who were naturally large eaters, uttered involuntary cries
780 IV | will serve to complete his education. He is very intelligent,
781 XXI | renders picrate far more effective in blasting such rocks as
782 XLIII | announcement produced none of the effects that might have been expected.
783 XXIII | difficult, but for a time it was effectual, and at the close of the
784 IV | conceited, a fool as well as an egotist, he struts about like a
785 XXXI | a pint a day, we hope to eke out that, too, over the
786 XXXVIII| our wants, and which now, eked out crumb by crumb, might,
787 XXXIV | heavy clouds of which the elasticity muffled the sound of the
788 XIII | But the maniac has already eluded his confinement, and with
789 L | in spite of their extreme emaciation they bear up wonderfully
790 IX | cowardly men to add to our embarrassment; the crew are under orders
791 XXXIV | The clouds appeared like embattled turrets crested with flame,
792 LV | man away from his father’s embrace.~Andre fell upon his back,
793 XVIII | few points of rock that emerged in the extreme south of
794 XLII | something that might act as an emetic. I asked Curtis for a little
795 XLIII | clearly expressed the varying emotions that passed through their
796 X | towards them by some very emphatic gestures of dissatisfaction
797 LI | Falsten, and the boatswain, employ the little energy that remains
798 XVI | proceeded to make a kind of encampment on the poop, and the few
799 V | distant land, “there lies the enchanted Archipelago, sung by your
800 XIII | lambent flame that seems to encircle the mizen-mast. The fire
801 XLI | delirium. I went up to him, and encouraged him to repeat his attempt.~“
802 XIX | contending with a flood that encroaches faster than it can be resisted.
803 VIII | although Curtis continually endeavours to start some subject of
804 XIV | she rises upon her beam ends; several times she strikes
805 XL | extreme thirst is far less endurable than extreme hunger. Is
806 XII | with the fire as a declared enemy than as a hidden one.”~Falsten
807 XXXIX | Herbey; “you did your duty.”~Enfeebled and emaciated as the young
808 IV | calculations. Once let him engage you in conversation, and
809 XVII | could invent some mighty engine that could set us all afloat
810 IV | Falsten, looks like a thorough Englishman. He has the management of
811 XXVII | sailors,—a Scotchman and two Englishmen, —were missing. Afraid that
812 XXIV | that followed will ever be engraven in my memory; the cries
813 II | fist. There is something enigmatical about him; however, I shall
814 IV | merchant vessel instead of enjoying the luxuries of a Transatlantic
815 IV | Letourneur, who evidently enjoys his company. After he had
816 IX | and I hope you will not enlighten them. We don’t want terrified
817 LVII | the mouth of the Amazon is enormously large, but we had probably
818 XXVII | lay their tongues to. So enraged were they at the dastardly
819 VI | caught up by the wind become entangled in the rigging, and hang
820 LI | to hope, but I dared nor entertain one sanguine thought; and
821 XXXII | conversation both lively and entertaining and as he talks, his wan
822 XLIV | into the water in order to entice the sharks to remain by
823 IV | your son. That M. Andre is entitled to the very greatest commiseration
824 LIV | in the name of mercy I entreat, I implore you.”~My heart
825 XLIV | self-denying father had entrusted to my charge.~Jynxtrop the
826 XXX | it is but a brief task to enumerate their resources.~The greater
827 LII | sufficiently to make the enumeration. Sometimes I counted ten,
828 XLVII | cannibals were rousing my envy instead of exciting my horror?~
829 XXXVIII| more captains; we are all equals now.”~Poor stupid fool!
830 XX | ordinary spring- tide, but an equinoctial tide, such a one as could
831 XXXII | of us passengers, and by erecting some uprights we have contrived
832 XXIX | was ready on the raft; an erection had been made on the fore
833 III | was constructed with the especial design of carrying cotton,
834 III | bales of cotton, of the estimated value of 26,000l., all in
835 IV | C’est toute sa dignite et tout-son merite;” but to
836 XXXVII | what to say, and sought to evade his question.~“My dear,boy,”
837 XLV | silent lips. Hope, however evanescent it might be, for the moment
838 XLVII | possibility of obtaining salt by evaporating sea-water in the sun; “and
839 LI | drops of fresh water by evaporation, but even with the exercise
840 V | is my captain, sir.”~This evasive answer of course put an
841 XLI | asked.~“Not now,” he said evasively; “the night is the best
842 XLI | various incidents of our eventful voyage, speaking of our
843 XX | position. Besides, on that ever- memorable night, there had
844 XVI | to stay for ever on your everlasting ship, so I beg you will
845 IX | CHAPTER IX.~OCTOBER 19th.—Eveything, then, is clear. The uneasiness
846 XLI | same good luck again.~One evidence of the degree to which our
847 XXXI | words with an emotion that evidenced their earnestness, the captain
848 XVI | thanks to his deliverer, the ex- captain, passive, like an
849 XX | NOVEMBER 15th to 20th.—The examination of the hold has at last
850 XLV | could have swallowed it. So exasperated were the feelings of us
851 XXXVI | leaving a total barely exceeding half the number of those
852 XXVIII | seemed inclined to run into excesses; and their conduct, under
853 L | escapes our lips. We do not exchange ten words in the course
854 X | scouring of the boards did not excite any suspicion in their torpid
855 IV | caressing tenderness. It excites an involuntary commiseration
856 XLVII | rousing my envy instead of exciting my horror?~Very shortly
857 IX | resolved most carefully to exclude every breath of air from
858 LIII | diminished if Miss Herbey were excluded, so that the young lady
859 XVIII | to join us in one of our excursions she declined, upon the plea
860 LV | between M. Letourneur and his executioners, I seemed to be rooted to
861 XVI | circumstances, to have been most exemplary, and their courage, energy,
862 XL | appearance of being singularly exempt from the tortures which
863 XXIX | they used as oars, were exerting themselves to bring back
864 XLIV | surface, At length, after exertions that almost exhausted us,
865 V | by your poet Moore. The exile Waller, too, as long ago
866 XVII | a complete nonentity; he exists, it is true, but merely,
867 LIV | eagerly scanning the broad expanse of sea.~Night has come on;
868 LVII | in a group, and kept our expectant gaze upon the horizon.~We
869 XL | last I had from her—she was expecting me home; but she will never
870 IX | fellow-passengers, all are explained.~After his grave communication,
871 XII | not at what moment it may explode. No; it is a matter that
872 XVIII | communicated the result of our explorations to Curtis, who entered the
873 XXVI | she will succumb to the exposure and privation. Not once
874 XLIII | difficulty in restraining my expressions of delight.~“Look behind
875 XVIII | that it had been created expressly for the ‘Chancellor’ to
876 VII | is of a character which extends only to the matters connected
877 XXIII | between the interior and exterior of the vessel, might, if
878 X | betrayed itself by some external issue of smoke.~The day
879 XVIII | the ‘Chancellor’ time to extinguish her flames, and then you
880 XVII | active measures for totally extinguishing the fire. He is at no great
881 XV | communication between the two extremities of the ship, became less
882 XVII | will not leave undone to extricate us from our dilemma.”~Prompted
883 XXVIII | except Miss Herbey, who faced her danger with the same
884 LVII | At Para we soon found facilities for continuing our homeward
885 LV | ocean, and my hopes began to fade. Neither ship nor shore
886 V | over the Antilles; and the fag- end of a storm is like the
887 V | hurricanes. They get the fag-end of the storms that rage
888 XXX | may give way, and over failing spirits such as these we
889 XLVI | moist coolness that rarely fails to circulate just above
890 XXXVII | quite discouraged at his failure.~“But there will be plenty
891 XVI | passengers and crew already half fainting with hunger and fatigue,
892 IV | L’homme est visiblement fait pour penser. C’est toute
893 LVII | welfare he consulted so faithfully in their misfortunes; his
894 XXVII | had deserted his wife, the faithless captain had abandoned the
895 LII | to shake off the phantom fallacies that Curtis’s words had
896 XVIII | stone with which we are not familiar, scarcely a portion of its
897 XIV | cause with the hurricane to fan the fire that was consuming
898 IV | the ridiculous whims and fancies of a capricious mistress,
899 XIII | entered that was evidently fanning the flames. Only too certainly,
900 XLII | that one faint spot in the far-off horizon.~But at length he
901 XII | perhaps, after all, we shall fare better with the fire as
902 XIV | impossible to tell how they were faring because the sheet of fire
903 XXXVIII| seated himself moodily on the farthest corner of the raft.~
904 XLIV | feelings were rather those of fascination than of horror.~The boatswain,
905 VI | been driven along in this fashion for the best part of two
906 XLIV | no whirl which he could fasten to his rope he set to work
907 XIX | a flood that encroaches faster than it can be resisted.
908 XXIX | was descending into the fathomless abyss, the raft, our only
909 XIX | the work is so extremely fatiguing that the crew require some
910 XXXIX | do. He is small, with a fawning expression remarkable for
911 XVI | that at one time Curtis feared she would altogether capsize;
912 XXXVII | days his malady had made fearfully rapid strides, and it was
913 IV | erect and easy carriage, his fearless glance and slightly contracted
914 XXXIX | acknowledged by pressing my hand feebly with her emaciated fingers.~
915 XXXVII | Walter seemed as it were to feed upon the fever that raged
916 XXXII | aloof, and as he evidently feels that he has the great responsibility
917 XVIII | which the Gaelic poets have feigned that the harps of the Fingal
918 XLVII | in the presence of all my fellow- passengers; yet my alarm
919 IV | Letourneur, our French fellow-passenger, often has a chat with me.
920 XLVII | the meagre morsel with my fellow-sufferers. Miss Herbey, Andre, his
921 XLIX | rushed upon us all with the ferocity of an infuriated tiger;
922 LVII | voice was heard pouring out fervent praise to Heaven, and we
923 XXXII | On the 15th we held high festival. A shoal of fish, of the
924 VI | hang between the masts in festoons of verdure; whilst others,
925 XLIV | the raft, Dowlas went and fetched his carpenter’s tool, which
926 XLII | thoughts are concentrated with fevered expectation upon the longed-for
927 XXXVIII| no relief; it is rather a feverish stupour, broken and disturbed
928 XL | took no part in the almost fiendish energy with which we gnawed
929 XVI | twilight we could make out the figure of a man clinging to the
930 XXIII | hold!”~The ship, then, was filling once again, and already
931 LVII | member of their family, and finds in M. Letourneur a father,
932 XLIII | saw Miss Herbey with her finger pointing to the sky. I could
933 XXXIX | feebly with her emaciated fingers.~Another night passed away.
934 XLIII | should be made. We had no fire-arms by which we could attract
935 XIV | driven, like a gigantic fire-ship with frightful velocity
936 XIII | on board this veritable fireship I cannot help contemplating
937 XXV | until I give you leave.”~The firmness of the captain’s voice brought
938 XXXVII | me, “that these nails are first-rate fish-hooks; but one thing
939 XXXVII | these nails are first-rate fish-hooks; but one thing I do know,
940 XLVI | the Indians in the pearl fisheries, was it not practicable
941 LVII | and was observed by some fishermen who, with kind-hearted alacrity
942 XXXII | the sea, and examine our fishing- lines; whilst at night we
943 II | his teeth, or clenches his fist. There is something enigmatical
944 XXXII | wind, too, blows only in fitful gusts and through long intervals
945 XXXVII | good-sized plank, has been fitted in the place of the one
946 1 | the mizen, with all their fittings, being of iron. She is registered
947 II | voyage for at least twenty or five-and-twenty days have precluded the
948 XXXI | Dowlas was occupied in fixing the mast into the socket
949 VIII | consequently the conversation flags hopelessly, and soon drops.
950 IV | physiognomist Gratiolet, “il se flaire, il se savoure, il se goute.”
951 XIX | while the ship was on her flank would only too certainly
952 XX | action of the fire on the flanks of the ship had been of
953 XXXII | of perfect calm the sails flap idly and uselessly against
954 XLIV | agitated by the violent flappings of the tail and fins; and
955 XLI | things by halves.”~The truth flashed upon me at once, and I laid
956 XXXIV | dark, except for dazzling flashes of summer lightning that
957 XXXV | waves had been crushed and flattened as it were by the pressure
958 XLIX | grin, “Drink, drink!” and flinging us gory morsels, kept saying “
959 XXV | running with him across the flooded deck deposited him safely
960 XVIII | But whereas at Staffa the floor of the cave is always covered
961 XXXVII | that they pulled out of the flooring of the raft, and bent into
962 LII | the blood had ceased to flow.~How long it seemed before
963 VIII | proceeded to dabble in the flowing water.~Great was my amazement
964 XXXII | a westerly current, that flows at the rate of three or
965 LIII | paper from my hands, and flung it into the sea.~
966 XXXIII | only relieved by a hectic flush, the contracted lips, the
967 XLIII | time that our poor flag fluttered in the wind.~For an hour
968 XXIV | fatigue, paid one of her flying visits to the deck, I warned
969 XXXV | incomprehensible height above the foaming breakers. Cries of terror
970 XXII | The night came on dark and foggy. The breeze freshened considerably,
971 XXVI | already? and sure, poor fools are they that ever have
972 XXXV | impossible for them to keep their footing, and rolling one over another,
973 VII | on deck. There were heavy footsteps hurrying to and fro, and
974 X | Falsten, and I could not forbear listening to what followed.~“
975 XVI | confidence in the future that forbids us to despond.~Meanwhile
976 XLVI | long in securing my prize. Forcing my arm below the roll, I
977 VI | low-reefed top-sail and fore-sail, and labouring against a
978 XXIX | the water had risen to the fore-top; the poop and forecastle
979 XXVI | tinged with a rosy glare that foreboded a strong breeze for the
980 III | J. S. HUNTLY.”~ From the foregoing document it will be understood
981 XVI | every difficulty, and always foremost in every action.~The tide
982 XXXVIII| been driven back to the forepart of the raft, and Curtis,
983 LV | that although he would not forestall the hour, he was determined
984 XXVI | afterwards fastened to the forestay; then, in a way which provoked
985 XXVI | let himself down by the forestays and clamber along to the
986 XXXI | the horrors of famine, and forewarned by the fate, of many who
987 IV | the wonders of nature he forgets his own infirmity.”~“Yes,
988 XII | he continued, “But I am forgetting myself; you, if no other,
989 IV | suppose that Andre can ever forgive his parents for bringing
990 XXXV | and several times I saw forked lightnings dart upwards
991 XII | explosion, if I may use the formula of science, is not necessary,
992 1 | decision, and proceeded forthwith to secure my passage by
993 XXVIII | exhibiting a calm Christian fortitude, which was shown by no one
994 XIII | undiminished speed.~It is now a fortnight since the fire was first
995 XLIX | unendurable than before.~Forty-two days had passed since we
996 LV | permitted, and we rushed forwards simultaneously to snatch
997 XXIII | the “Chancellor” until she foundered beneath his feet. No sail,
998 X | Chancellor” during the last four-and-twenty hours has held a steady
999 XLI | could have been guilty of so fowl a deed! Curtis looked around
1000 VII | air, laden with its briny fragrance, and I assisted him to mount
1001 XX | work to repair the charred frame-work of the ribs, and to stop
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