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1002 XIII | available. The sailors make frantically for the yawl.~“Stop, stop,”
1003 XI | from the poop, and paced franticly up and down the deck, gesticulating
1004 XXXVIII| however, put an end to the fray. Flaypole and Burke were
1005 II | Letourneur and his son Andre, Frenchmen, of Havre. William Falsten,
1006 XLVI | threw myself, in a kind of frenzy, upon a bundle of sails
1007 XIX | which had been deluged so frequently by water that the cotton
1008 XXXIV | evening drew on, the wonted freshness did not return, but the,
1009 XVIII | the words of the orphaned, friendless girl who had found her long-lost
1010 V | continue to have many a friendly chat, informed me that we
1011 LVII | the “Chancellor” a bond of friendship too indissoluble, I believe,
1012 XLI | sad office. The body was frightfully emaciated, and I had every
1013 XXIII | surveyed the captain with a frown of defiance; but at a sign
1014 II | to be stubborn; he never frowns, sets his teeth, or clenches
1015 XXX | store, so that the utmost frugality in the distribution of our
1016 XLVIII | anger as their search proved fruitless.~“Can YOU tell us,” said
1017 VI | with masses of prolific fucus, is a vast unbroken plain
1018 XXVII | surreptitious flight, and loaded the fugitives with all the invectives
1019 XV | seem in a fair way of being fulfilled. Already the raging flames
1020 III | of the sea.~“And for the fulfilment of the above covenant, I
1021 XII | diligence with which she fulfils her offices of duty, commands
1022 XLV | sail was spread out to the fullest extent our dimensions would
1023 V | labours; and with time, that fundamental element in nature’s workings,
1024 XX | ordered the sails to be furled, and the anchor dropped
1025 XXXVIII| may yet be found that will furnish a dry bone or a scrap of
1026 XXXVII | will be none.~The sea had furnished us with food once, and,
1027 LV | purpose.~“Come, come, no more fuss,” said Dowlas, as he tore
1028 XVIII | basaltic rocks, of which the Gaelic poets have feigned that
1029 XI | his men to seize him and gag him; and before he could
1030 LI | shoals.~To-day I tried to gain a few drops of fresh water
1031 IX | us know that it has been gaining strength. Do what we will,
1032 II | and his slow, unsteady gait, all seem to me to indicate
1033 IV | Atlantic is not visited by many gales, and I have every reason
1034 XXI | 24th, with low, top, and gallant sails all set, the “Chancellor”
1035 VII | low-sails, top-sails, and gallant-sails. Well braced she was; and
1036 XXXVIII| constant desire to yawn and gape that was most distressing;
1037 XX | ship had not long since gaped completely open.~The captain
1038 XLIV | above the waves; and its gaping jaws, as it turned half
1039 LI | words.~“Fields, fields, gardens and trees! Look, there’s
1040 XI | his eye was dilated; he gasped for breath, and was speechless.
1041 XLVII | was it that made the group gather so eagerly around the body?
1042 XXI | would give a sufficient gauge, and the channel might be
1043 LII | distinct as ever! Curtis gazed with intensest scrutiny,
1044 IV | and selling, and as he has generally contrived to do business
1045 XXVIII | indifference than by any sense of genuine resignation. M. Letourneur
1046 XXXIX | that there is a want of genuineness in his manner, and that
1047 XVIII | sides of the rocks; not a germ had the wind carried to
1048 XXXVIII| up; it was swimming with giddiness, as though I were looking
1049 XXXVIII| agony, and were obliged to gird themselves tightly with
1050 VI | brought ahull. The joists and girders all creak again until one’
1051 XLIX | see their eyes greedily glancing upon us, starved as they
1052 XLII | were parched and dry, every gland becoming hard as horn under
1053 XLV | The parched and swollen glands relaxed, I breathed afresh,
1054 XXVI | being also allowed half a glass of water. Mrs. Kear, prostrate
1055 XVI | OCTOBER 30th.—At the first gleam of daylight we eagerly scanned
1056 LV | platform, with their eyes gleaming, like wild beasts ready
1057 XLIII | stand it no longer, but gliding underneath the tent I hid
1058 LII | every now and then catch glimpses of a clear blue sky beyond.
1059 LII | a sort of pleasure as I gloated over the power that I had
1060 XLII | almost seem as though this globe of ours had veritably become
1061 XVI | unattached to a shore, and the gloom of a bitter disappointment
1062 XLIII | and all, we fell into the gloomiest silence. We were too irritable
1063 VII | the mystery.~The sun rose gloriously, with every promise of a
1064 XXXVII | formed of a spar and a good-sized plank, has been fitted in
1065 III | as in the margin; which goods I do undertake to transport
1066 XLIX | drink!” and flinging us gory morsels, kept saying “Eat,
1067 XVIII | Fingal’s cave in miniature; a Gothic chapel that might form a
1068 IV | flaire, il se savoure, il se goute.” Why he should have taken
1069 IV | complaint, but quietly and gracefully performs her duties accepting
1070 XXI | ordinary gunpowder; one grain of picric powder producing
1071 XXI | equal to that of thirteen grains of common powder. Picrate
1072 XXXIV | long-drawn notes of the grandest music, and I can safely
1073 XXXIV | seemed struck with the grandeur of the spectacle, and regarded
1074 XXI | this basalt is as hard as granite,” said the boatswain; “besides,
1075 XLV | quite away from over us.~We grasped each other’s hands as we
1076 XXXVII | express his thanks by a grateful smile. Poor fellow! all
1077 XVII | and I acknowledge it most gratefully, as a providential circumstance,
1078 XL | eyes, and I could hear the grating of his teeth as he gnawed
1079 IV | words of the physiognomist Gratiolet, “il se flaire, il se savoure,
1080 XX | sea-range would allow; her keel grazed the ridge, and her progress
1081 XVIII | of the Santorini, in the Grecian Archipelago. One could almost
1082 LVI | the life-giving liquid in greedy draughts. Miss Herbey was
1083 XVIII | defined against the deep green water resembled nothing
1084 XXXVIII| and breathe a new year’s greeting?~The boatswain approached
1085 XXI | with which poor Ruby had so grievously imperilled the vessel was
1086 XXXII | 200lbs., some of which were grilled, and others boiled in sea-water
1087 XIII | face all blackened with the grimy smoke; he bows to Curtis,
1088 IV | age, with white hair and a grizzly beard. To say the truth,
1089 XXVII | which we stood creaked and groaned with the swaying of the
1090 XL | his conduct and perpetual groanings, he might be considered
1091 XVII | mechanical diagrams with ground-plan, section, elevation, all
1092 XX | our efforts when the ship grounded again.~And now no effort
1093 XVI | mark, has happily proved groundless.~At six o’clock some violent
1094 VIII | so constantly standing in groups and breaking off their talk
1095 VI | compare her to an animated grove of verdure making its mysterious
1096 XXXIV | any moment distinguish the growlings of thunder.”~“Hark!” I said,
1097 XVI | Kear interposed, and in a gruff, ill-tempered tone, asked
1098 XLVIII | bit.”~“Yes,” said Sandon gruffly; “it’s all gone somewheres,
1099 XVIII | daresay the sailors will not grumble much, if they don’t find
1100 XVII | listening to their incessant grumbling; unfortunately, however,
1101 VI | and unless we were on our guard to keep our clothes wrapped
1102 XX | mouth of the passage is guarded by a kind of ridge of basalt,
1103 VI | to the south we can only guess at our precise position,
1104 XLVII | mast, and, just as I had guessed, Hobart had hanged himself.
1105 XXV | his father, who carefully guided his feet up the rigging,
1106 XLI | But who could have been guilty of so fowl a deed! Curtis
1107 LI | quick! brandy, gin, water! a guinea a drop! I’ll pay for it!
1108 XXI | substance is inferior to that of gun-cotton or of dynamite, but far
1109 III | placed the same under the gun-deck of the aforesaid ship, seventeen
1110 XV | contrived to clamber over the gunwale, along the rails, and joined
1111 XLVI | grasping his throat so that it gurgled again, I held him down until,
1112 XXIII | hear a splashing, or rather gurgling sound; but whether the water
1113 XXXV | be snapped short off. One gust caught away the tiller,
1114 XXXVIII| the distress may be, some gutter, some rubbish-heap, some
1115 II | small head, which he has a habit of holding a little over
1116 XII | began the captain, his haggard eye betraying only too plainly
1117 XXII | and, unfortunately for us, hailed from the north- west. Although
1118 XVIII | should hardly get more than half-a-crown a year for our pet little
1119 XLIII | while Curtis during the half-hour of our bath, kept a sharp
1120 XIII | that had held it, rises half-mast high.~“The picrate! the
1121 XXV | was precisely in the same half-sunk, water-logged condition
1122 XVIII | said; then added, with a half-suppressed sigh, “and yet it is a place
1123 XXXV | boatswain rushed to the halliards that supported the sail,
1124 LI | to be a partaker of his hallucination.~Dowlas, Falsten, and the
1125 XLI | no good doing things by halves.”~The truth flashed upon
1126 1 | belonging to English, French, or Hamburg lines, any of which would
1127 XXXVIII| with hatchets, chisels, and hammers, they were preparing to
1128 XVI | crew as had saved their hammocks have been told to place
1129 XIX | the incessant swing of the handles, and I can well understand
1130 XXVI | the promise of paying them handsomely for their services, two
1131 XLIX | had gained possession of a handspike, and rushed upon us all
1132 XLVII | had guessed, Hobart had hanged himself. I could not for
1133 XLVI | since dropped, and the sail hangs idly against our mast. Except
1134 XXXI | upon such a contingency happening in our favour; whilst if
1135 1 | I must now relate how it happens that I have taken my passage
1136 1 | the channels of Charleston harbour, it was the British flag
1137 1 | has carried us through the harbour-mouth.~But as yet we have not
1138 XXXVIII| sneered Owen, with the most hardened effrontery.~But the audacious
1139 XXIII | bleeding hands we worked harder than ever at the pumps,
1140 XXVIII | at the highest degree of hardness.”~At five o’clock one of
1141 XXXIV | growlings of thunder.”~“Hark!” I said, as I strained
1142 XIII | hold? What could be the harm? The fire would be quenched;
1143 VI | metal shrouds vibrate like harp-strings; and unless we were on our
1144 V | that this time the captain hasn’t chosen to take it.”~“But
1145 IV | him see it,” he broke in hastily. “My sole thought is how
1146 XXXVIII| tools, and now, armed with hatchets, chisels, and hammers, they
1147 XII | her back to the north. I hate the sea, the very sight
1148 V | could not be far off Cape Hatteras in the Bermudas; the ship’
1149 VIII | by his consequential and haughty manner that he holds him
1150 XX | were forced through the hawse-holes.~The breeze freshened, and
1151 XX | broadest part, and by means of hawsers fastened on the reef to
1152 XIV | they resolved at every hazard to accomplish their escape.
1153 XXXVII | fishing had now become, at all hazards the attempt must be made
1154 XLVII | the moon rose high in the heavens, and the first streaks of
1155 XIX | violence with which the heavily-laden vessel had been thrown ashore
1156 II | believe. I observe a certain heaviness and dejection about his
1157 XXVI | rises and falls with the heaving motion of the billows? But
1158 XVIII | Andre who have visited the Hebrides, pronounced it to be a Fingal’
1159 XXXIII | pallour is only relieved by a hectic flush, the contracted lips,
1160 XXII | all, the ship seemed to heel over more than ever. Most
1161 XIV | billows, and turning to the helmsman shouts with all his might “
1162 XXIX | Miss Herbey go first, was helped safely on to the platform,
1163 XXXVII | brandy, and the stimulant helps considerably to sustain
1164 XXXVII | lines out of some untwisted hemp, to which they fixed some
1165 XIV | senseless on one of the hen-coops, with Miss Herbey sitting
1166 LIV | displayed, they waited like a herd of carnivora until they
1167 | hereby
1168 | hers
1169 | herself
1170 XIII | to Curtis for orders. He hesitates; looks first at the huge
1171 XLII | he writhed with the most hideous contortions, and had all
1172 XXXV | waves dashed in without hindrance through the breach.~The
1173 XXXVII | Often, when reading the histories of shipwrecks, I have suspected
1174 XLVII | destiny. Owing to his secret hoard of provisions Hobart had
1175 XIV | sound was heard but the hoarse whistling of the wind, and
1176 XXVI | practised dexterity, manage to hoist themselves about by means
1177 XLIII | else occurred to us beyond hoisting a flag of distress. Miss
1178 XV | allow him. He clung to the holdfasts of the shrouds, and in spite
1179 XL | her—she was expecting me home; but she will never see
1180 XXXII | left alone in the world, homeless and without resources, hope
1181 IV | besides. Pascal says, “L’homme est visiblement fait pour
1182 V | Mr. Curtis giving me your honest opinion of Captain Huntly?”~
1183 XI | which they had learned to honour and respect, the crew paused
1184 LVII | Curtis must ever remain the honoured and valued friend of those
1185 XXXVII | wears, he fastened it to his hook. But still no success; for
1186 XLVII | I represented to him the hopelessness of his attempt, and tried
1187 XVI | been able to calculate an horary angle, now prepared to take
1188 XVI | the southern and western horizons, but the morning mists limited
1189 XXXV | the raft had resumed its horizontal position. Safe, indeed,
1190 XLII | every gland becoming hard as horn under the action of the
1191 XLVII | idea of partaking of the horrid meal withdrew to the seclusion
1192 LII | unaccountable reason, one of the hottest that can be imagined. The
1193 XXII | an abyss which daily, nay hourly, threatens to swallow us
1194 XXIII | feet. No sail, however, hove in sight; consequently escape
1195 XLIV | and was completely gone.~A howl of despair burst from all
1196 XXX | only eighteen are left to huddle together upon this narrow
1197 XVI | again resumed its sombre hue, betokening deep water.
1198 XLVII | around the body? Was it a humane desire to see whether any
1199 IV | ordinary grave expression. Yet humiliating as her position must be,
1200 XX | monotony to the sing-song tune hummed by one of the sailors.~We
1201 XV | cast upon an unknown reef, hundreds of miles it may be from
1202 XLVII | that they are no longer hungry!~
1203 XXI | through the obstacle. A loud hurrah rang through the air; our
1204 V | visited by the most frightful hurricanes. They get the fag-end of
1205 XXIX | s word “Embark!” we all hurried to the raft. Andre who insisted
1206 XXV | making every exertion to hurry on the construction of the
1207 XXXI | prudence can suggest for husbanding our stores.~
1208 IV | management of some extensive hydraulic works in South Carolina,
1209 XVII | be rendering a service to hydrography if we were to take an accurate
1210 VI | her masts are circled with hydrophytes; her rigging is wreathed
1211 XXXIX | something altogether false and hypocritical about his whole demeanour.
1212 XLIII | reduced to vapour or to ice! its particles of salt extracted,
1213 XXI | powder. Picrate is easily ignited by any sharp or violent
1214 X | may be stifled before it ignites the general cargo; he has
1215 II | CHAPTER II.~SEPTEMBER 28th.—John Silas
1216 III | CHAPTER III.~SEPTEMBER 29th.—Captain
1217 XXVIII | their wits. Some of the more ill-disposed amongst them seemed inclined
1218 XVII | the cook, an impudent, ill-favoured negro, who interferes with
1219 XXXII | seem to me like monsters of ill-omen.~
1220 XVI | interposed, and in a gruff, ill-tempered tone, asked Curtis where
1221 IX | confinement in a damp or ill-ventilated hold will sometimes cause
1222 XXVIII | after a most distressing illness, through which her young
1223 XXXV | For an instant, by the illumination of the lightning, we beheld
1224 XXXIII | with all the effrontery imaginable.~“Say on, then,” said the
1225 LII | the hottest that can be imagined. The atmosphere was really
1226 LI | the wind and currents he imagines that we have been carried
1227 XXVI | s” hull is three-fourths immerged; besides the three masts
1228 XXIV | buckets found themselves immersed up to their waists and were
1229 LIV | somewhere to leeward.~I imparted my convictions to M. Letourneur
1230 XXXIX | ship—”~“Ship!” he cried impatiently, “don’t try to console me
1231 XLVII | it was I myself that had impelled him to the suicide. A cry
1232 VIII | texture is rendered quite impervious to the air, The “Chancellor’
1233 XIV | He made no answer to my impetuous questions, and finding that
1234 XLII | speak.~Curtis and I both implored him to let us know what
1235 XIV | an instant recognize its import.~“Breakers to starboard!”
1236 VIII | the additional work thus imposed upon them. The tarpaulins
1237 XXXIV | and I, sat watching the imposing struggle of the electric
1238 L | chance, which is next to an impossibility, of our sighting land, or
1239 XVIII | transitory existence. Not impossibly, by the time it gets marked
1240 IV | and that, like me, he is impressed with the man’s undecided
1241 IV | long closed to all other impressions that it appears incapable
1242 VIII | though a mutinous crew was imprisoned between decks? I cannot
1243 IV | to Europe to obtain some improved apparatus, and more especially
1244 VII | to have resulted in any improvement in the ship’s pace; still
1245 XLI | some bait, for we have been improvident enough not to save a single
1246 XI | were exposed through Ruby’s imprudence. Curtis himself took the
1247 X | nothing could be more imprudent.”~“Pooh! pooh!” replied
1248 XVII | with Jynxtrop, the cook, an impudent, ill-favoured negro, who
1249 XL | considered to be dying of inanition, yet to me he has the appearance
1250 IV | phrase seems altogether inapplicable.~
1251 XI | characteristic Anglo-Saxon incautiousness he had brought on board
1252 XLVIII | only grew more and more incensed with anger as their search
1253 XXX | narrow raft; this number includes the five passengers, namely
1254 III | pay me the sum of 2000l. inclusive, according to the charter-party
1255 LI | Presently I caught a few incoherent words.~“Fields, fields,
1256 IV | of the vessel no longer incommode any of the passengers, who
1257 XXXIV | never moved me like that incomparable voice of nature.”~“Rather
1258 II | the ship’s officials is incomplete unless I mention Hobart,
1259 XLVI | wretch! This accounts for the inconsistency of his well-to-do looks
1260 XXXIX | expression remarkable for its indecision, and has a smile which is
1261 XLVI | Armed with knives, like the Indians in the pearl fisheries,
1262 XLII | true that in the direction indicated by Flaypole there was a
1263 XXXII | dependent on the wind. Certain indications, which a sailor’s eye alone
1264 IV | and consequently supremely indifferent to all around him. His hands
1265 XI | throat; but suppressing his indignation, he proceeded quietly, though
1266 XII | he would soon recover his indisposition, and feel himself again;
1267 LVII | a bond of friendship too indissoluble, I believe, for either time
1268 XXVI | dried meat and biscuit, each individual being also allowed half
1269 XXXIII | and feel constrained to indulge ourselves with a bath.~The
1270 XXXI | there is the hope to be indulged that we may fall in with
1271 X | been undisturbed. Curtis indulges the hope even yet that by
1272 XLVIII | great relief the search was ineffectual. There was no doubt that
1273 XXI | power of this substance is inferior to that of gun-cotton or
1274 XXXIII | the water all round was infested with sharks, none of us
1275 V | there are madrepores, in infinity of number, silently but
1276 XII | possesses the same degree of inflammability.”~We now prepared to go
1277 XII | potash although not MORE inflammable than common powder, yet
1278 X | asked Falsten, “did you not inform the captain?”~“Just because
1279 XI | took the responsibility of informing Captain Huntly of our critical
1280 XIII | quarters below that were inhabitable. Of these Mrs. Kear occupied
1281 XLVI | me to take several long inhalations. Suddenly, the truth seemed
1282 XLVI | some measure of relief by inhaling the moist coolness that
1283 XLIII | would have the barbarous inhumanity to leave us to our fate;
1284 XX | has sustained far greater injuries than we suspected, and that
1285 VII | as he replied to Curtis’s inquiries, and then, in obedience
1286 XXXIX | But my father?” he said inquiringly.~I assured him that his
1287 XXII | routine; the feeling of insecurity and the consciousness that
1288 II | variety of preparations inseparable from starting on a voyage
1289 II | has given me considerable insight into his character. That
1290 IV | altogether free from that insignificance of feature which is not
1291 IV | explain.~The wife is an insignificant, insipid woman, of about
1292 XXXVII | he answered.~What did he insinuate? The words, coming from
1293 IV | wife is an insignificant, insipid woman, of about forty years
1294 XXXIII | business,” said the man insolently, and pursued his course.~
1295 XXIII | s rest, made a personal inspection of the hold. I, with the
1296 XXV | of a sail. Mr. Kear has installed himself with Silas Huntly
1297 XIII | mount the aft-shrouds, and installs himself at the very top
1298 XL | human, the impulses and instincts of brute beasts seemed to
1299 IV | son to go to college, but instructed him entirely myself, and
1300 XII | communicating to Curtis his instructions that he thought he should
1301 XXIV | succeed as well in future. An insubordinate crew would render us powerless
1302 XLII | I fully realized how the insufficiency of drink could cause torture
1303 LII | intention, and he received the intelligence as calmly as it was delivered.~“
1304 XXXIX | suspicions about the man, and intend to watch him carefully.
1305 XLVI | almost bristled with the intenseness of my longing.~Crawling
1306 LII | ever! Curtis gazed with intensest scrutiny, but did not speak
1307 LV | boatswain was still standing intent on his watch, but all of
1308 XLII | he stood with folded arms intently gazing at the distant point.
1309 XVIII | annoyed, and resolved to intercede in Miss Herbey’s favour;
1310 II | lead us in due time to an interchange of ideas. Two days have
1311 XXII | to destroy the animated intercourse that would otherwise go
1312 IV | years of age, with a gentle, interesting countenance, but, to the
1313 IV | years of age, with all his interests so entirely absorbed by
1314 XVII | ill-favoured negro, who interferes with the other sailors in
1315 XXXI | which we have been driven is intermediate between the tracks of the
1316 LIV | and, without a moment’s intermission, I kept my eyes fixed upon
1317 XXXIII | being weakened by attacks of intermittent fever. Except for the loss
1318 1 | board, where I found the internal arrangements perfectly comfortable.
1319 XI | quietly, though sternly, to interrogate him about the facts of the
1320 V | put an end to any further interrogation on my part, but it only
1321 VIII | that moment occurred to interrupt the conversation, and I
1322 IX | night.”~“Yes,” he said, interrupting me; “it was the night you
1323 XIV | because the sheet of fire intervened like a curtain, and cut
1324 XXVI | are visible; and as the intervening section of the deck is quite
1325 LVII | way, Miss Herbey by chance intimated to us her intention of retiring
1326 XII | immediately extinguished and intimating that he held him responsible
1327 VII | hoping that he would himself introduce the subject that was uppermost
1328 XVI | inasmuch as it sufficed to inundate another layer of cotton.~
1329 XIX | deck, had been completely inundated.~The rapidity, however,
1330 XV | have effected; by their inundation they are steadily stifling
1331 XLIX | lips, but only with the invariable result of bringing on a
1332 XXVII | the fugitives with all the invectives they could lay their tongues
1333 XVII | inspiration if he could invent some mighty engine that
1334 LII | horizon was still quite invisible. There was no wind, and
1335 XVIII | accepted M. Letourneur’s invitation to pay a visit to the reef
1336 LI | conversing with absent friends, inviting them into the George Inn
1337 XXXVII | in vain, and as it only involved what seemed a lavish waste
1338 XXIII | wrinkles, his lips curl inwards, and his ears protrude,
1339 XIX | thoroughly secure by strong iron-belts and bolts. The shrouds,
1340 XLIII | would be lost in the intense irradiation of the sunbeams. If only
1341 XXXVI | short space of time what an irreparable loss we have sustained,
1342 IV | countenance, but, to the irrepressible grief of his father, is
1343 XVI | upon; but after two hours’ irrigation the boards became sufficiently
1344 XLIII | gloomiest silence. We were too irritable to bear the sound of each
1345 V | hundred and fifty different isles and islets, is destined
1346 V | fifty different isles and islets, is destined to increase,
1347 XV | ascertained to be stranded on some isolated reef, all we could do would
1348 LII | as the burning steam that issues from a boiler. It was to
1349 IX | watch noticed a slight smoke issuing from the large hatchway
1350 IV | CHAPTER IV.~SEPTEMBER 30th to OCTOBER
1351 IX | CHAPTER IX.~OCTOBER 19th.—Eveything,
1352 XLIV | passed right through the jaw into the middle of the throat;
1353 XLIV | at once, with a violent jerk, the cord was wrested from
1354 XIV | with a lurid glare. Long jets of fire darted across the
1355 XVIII | assented, young Letourneur jocosely observing that if the little
1356 XXXII | Miss Herbey occasionally joins in our conversation, but
1357 LI | them in strengthening the joints. Why do they give themselves
1358 VI | to be brought ahull. The joists and girders all creak again
1359 LVII | in ecstasy and raised the joyous shout of “Land ahoy!”~* * * *~
1360 XXXVIII| hopes, new plans, and coming joys? And now, where were we?
1361 XXXVII | began, “and I can scarcely judge—”~“Never mind,” he interrupted, “
1362 XXXVIII| as our condition might be judged, hope did not entirely abandon
1363 XLIII | far more deliberate in his judgment. After examining her attentively
1364 XXXIII | find contained a saccharine juice, affording considerable
1365 XVIII | those which produced the Julia Island, off the coast of
1366 XXIX | was up to his waist) he jumped on to the raft.~Having cast
1367 XIX | former stump, and made the junction thoroughly secure by strong
1368 XXV | 1795 a three-master, the ‘Juno,’ was precisely in the same
1369 XXVII | the state of the sea fully justified his opinion.~The crew were
1370 VII | of the ship could alone justify him in taking so decided
1371 XXXIV | storms, of which it has been justly remarked that any one endowed
1372 XVI | the few peaks of rock that jutted up around us showed that
1373 XLIII | Three hours later and the keenest eye could not have discerned
1374 XXXIX | this time my manner was kinder and more genial.~“Mr. Kazallon,”
1375 XL | Herbey and myself for the kindness we had shown him. A crumpled
1376 XLV | M. Letourneur, on bended knee, was raising his hands,
1377 LII | execution. I unclasped my knife, and, stripping my arm,
1378 V | further remark; but the knit of his brow, as he passed
1379 XVII | wouldn’t take many storms to knock the ‘Chancellor,’ shattered
1380 XXXIV | experience, has some scientific knowledge, and he pointed out to me
1381 XXXVII | has to live. Not one of us knows what may happen in the course
1382 XVIII | the hollow place above the knuckle. The tide at this time was
1383 IV | defined as a delicate strip of lace stretched upon an azure
1384 XLVI | could compensate for the lack of nutritive matter, we
1385 XXII | boatswain had descended the ladder. The startling news was
1386 XLIV | s flesh.~“Now, then, my lads,” cried the boatswain, “
1387 XIII | followed by a long tongue of lambent flame that seems to encircle
1388 XXXIII | my companions to chew the laminary tangles, which they would
1389 XLIV | the moment if should be landed on the raft. A short sharp
1390 XXVIII | borrow an expression from the language of metallurgic art, they
1391 V | and that, perhaps, on a larger scale than has yet been
1392 XXXV | most violent oscillations “Lash yourselves tight,” cried
1393 XXVI | nay; while the ould ship lasts, let’s stick to her, says
1394 V | seventeenth century, although laterly they have fallen into comparative
1395 IV | abiding sorrow. He never laughs; he rarely even smiles,
1396 XXVI | that they’ll all be afther lavin’ of the ship?”~He turned
1397 XXXVII | only involved what seemed a lavish waste of our only means
1398 LIV | Chancellor,” and then he lavished on his son caresses which
1399 XVII | thoroughly saturating the upper layers of the cotton, in order
1400 XVIII | ascend the gradual slope that leads to its highest elevation.~
1401 LIII | Falsten wrote them upon a leaf torn from his memorandum-book.
1402 V | semicircle about two or three leagues from shore make the attempt
1403 XXIII | as high as the previous leaking-place, and then fastened closely
1404 XIX | quite probable that the leaks may be mended from the interior.
1405 LVI | had escaped my lips, I leaned over the side of the raft
1406 LVII | hour had passed Curtis, leaped in ecstasy and raised the
1407 LI | put an end to himself by leaping into the sea; but, determined
1408 XIV | starboard!” is the cry.~Curtis leaps on to the netting, casts
1409 XI | of a voice which they had learned to honour and respect, the
1410 XLIII | their example. We had never learnt to swim, and had to be fastened
1411 XVIII | you thinking of taking a lease?” I said, laughing.~“Not
1412 XLI | wonder to me how, after his lengthened fast, he came to be alive
1413 LV | lying only a few cables’ lengths away.~But when morning came,
1414 XLVI | was my own determination lessened by hearing him groan out
1415 VIII | yield to his convenience, lets the captain know by his
1416 IX | just on her waterline, and letting in just as much water as
1417 LI | CHAPTER LI.~JANUARY 24th.—I have inquired
1418 LVI | the raft and swallowed the life-giving liquid in greedy draughts.
1419 1 | west course, rounding the lighthouse at the corner of the fort;
1420 XXXV | several times I saw forked lightnings dart upwards from the crest
1421 XXXII | and suffering countenance lights up with an intelligent animation.
1422 LII | CHAPTER LII.~JANUARY 25th.—Last night
1423 LIII | CHAPTER LIII.~JANUARY 26th.—All heard
1424 XLVII | telling him that if they liked the food they had a right
1425 XXXI | doled out with the strictest limitation, and no one will be allowed
1426 XVIII | compared with the cramped limits of the “Chancellor’s” deck
1427 LI | moisten a little scrap of linen; and the only kettle that
1428 XXXIX | cannot say; perhaps we shall linger on longer than we imagine.”~“
1429 LV | not a single shark now lingered-round the raft. The waning moon
1430 VII | nothing out of Curtis; he listens coldly whenever I allude
1431 II | His wavering glances, the listless motions of his hands, and
1432 XXXVIII| devoured, our resources are literary at an end.~The nights seem
1433 LIV | CHAPTER LIV.~JANUARY 26th.—I understood
1434 LII | fully determined that if I lived till the following day,
1435 XXVII | beneath, and great masses of livid-looking foam were dashing between
1436 XXXVI | have sustained, and what a load of misery seems stored up
1437 XLVII | abhorrence; in his disgust and loathing he seemed for the time to
1438 XX | probably bring her to a dead lock. Before the operation was
1439 XIX | the poop and to the crew’s lockers, in the front; but time
1440 XI | was captured and safely lodged in confinement in his own
1441 XVIII | sufficed to bring us to the loftiest point in the islet, when
1442 1 | otherwise.~One day, as I was loitering about the Charleston quays,
1443 II | myself, J. R. Kazallon, of London.~
1444 XVIII | sense of happiness on a lonely rock in the Atlantic.~
1445 XXXIV | rises and falls like the long-drawn notes of the grandest music,
1446 XVIII | friendless girl who had found her long-lost sense of happiness on a
1447 VIII | Owen, “do you suppose that longboats were only made for porpoises?”~
1448 X | my pledge of silence, and longed intensely to communicate
1449 VII | is 21deg. 33min. N., our longitude 50deg. 17min. W.~Incomprehensible
1450 XLIII | of our bath, kept a sharp look-out to give warning of any danger
1451 V | about three o’clock the lookout man sung out that there
1452 XIII | standing-place. Water began to lose its effect upon the scorched
1453 XXXIX | of complaint, and never loses courage.~“Mr. Kazallon,”
1454 LIII | for postponing the fatal lottery. There was not one of us
1455 IV | is full of reverence and love for you, sir,” I remarked.~“
1456 XXIX | leave the vessel he had loved so well, and the loss of
1457 XVIII | crags upon its summits. To a lover of natural history, the
1458 VII | larboard tack, and carried low-sails, top-sails, and gallant-sails.
1459 XXIV | complete, and the men were lowering empty barrels, which had
1460 XLI | should not have the same good luck again.~One evidence of the
1461 XXI | stead, and I now saw what a lucky thing it was that the case
1462 XII | condition, in spite of her ludicrous complaints, was truly pitiable.
1463 XVIII | shore, and, then enjoy a luncheon in the grotto, whilst the
1464 XXXVII | only too evident that one lung had already ceased to act,
1465 XXII | tack. This made the ship lurch very much on one side, and
1466 XLVI | misty, not glowing with that lustre which is so often characteristic
1467 XVIII | filled up with its yellow lutings; the same precision of outline
1468 IV | instead of enjoying the luxuries of a Transatlantic steamer,
1469 VIII | even the daintiest and most luxurious craft belonging to an aristocratic
1470 LV | CHAPTER LV.~JANUARY 27th.—I did not
1471 LVI | CHAPTER LVI.~JANUARY 27th CONTINUED.—
1472 LVII | CHAPTER LVII.~JANUARY 27th CONTINUED.—
1473 XVIII | of Staffa belonged to the Macdonald family, who let it for the
1474 IV | entirely absorbed by his machinery that he seems to have neither
1475 XL | inconvenience.~Today the boatswain, maddened by starvation, laid hands
1476 V | Beneath the waves there are madrepores, in infinity of number,
1477 IV | Without any originality or magnanimity in his composition, he has
1478 XIX | must be of considerable magnitude; and such, on investigation,
1479 LVII | land the raft was off Cape Magoari, on the Island of Marajo,
1480 1 | Huntly has hoisted both main and top sails, the northerly
1481 1 | sweeping batteries of the mainland on our left are soon passed,
1482 V | to the English, who have mainly used them for a military
1483 XVI | quickly up to the top of the mainmast. For several minutes he
1484 XXXI | that would enable us to maintain our desired direction. Curtis
1485 XXXIV | pealing,” he said; “that majestic rolling, far different to
1486 XXXI | similar to those used by the Malays.~At noon, after the necessary
1487 XXXIII | no.”~For a moment, with a malicious grin upon his lips, Owen
1488 IV | thorough Englishman. He has the management of some extensive hydraulic
1489 VII | is partial, and where the mania is of a character which
1490 XLIII | did not all become raving maniacs, I cannot tell.~Throughout
1491 VIII | of which it is only too manifest that the mate decidedly
1492 XXXIII | morning, “that young man gets manifestly weaker every day.”~“Yes,
1493 XXX | of the present. After the manifold perils of the last seventy-two
1494 XXVII | it’s five lost ye’ll be maning,” said O’Ready; and the
1495 VII | been the meaning of the manoeuvre, I cannot tell; it did not
1496 XXXIV | instantly brought ahull, but no manoeuvring could be applied to our
1497 XXXII | limited diet, and as we had no manual exertion, and no wear and
1498 XVI | such, on consulting the map, we find to be the actual
1499 LVII | Magoari, on the Island of Marajo, and was observed by some
1500 III | marked and numbered as in the margin; which goods I do undertake
1501 XXXIII | sailors gathered some of the marine plants known by the name
1502 V | question extremely perilous to mariners. Situated between the Antilles
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