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1503 XVIII | south of the reef plainly marking the narrow passage through
1504 XXXVII | realize their truth, and marvel when I find on how little
1505 XXV | abandoned all hope even yet?” I marvelled at his composure.~“While
1506 XXXVIII| to be urging them on to massacre the captain and the officers.~“
1507 VI | themselves up to the very mast- heads, from whence they
1508 XXIX | surf that raged about the mast-heads, was hauled back to the
1509 XXIX | disappeared, and only the three mast-tops projected from the waves.~
1510 XV | how, when the water had mastered the fire, should we be able
1511 XXXVIII| they appeared completely masters of the situation.~“Now,
1512 XXXVIII| that he was getting the mastery over me when all of a sudden
1513 XVI | on the poop, and the few mattresses that were rescued uninjured
1514 VIII | silent he has become at meal-times; for although Curtis continually
1515 XXXVI | believe, to the number of meals to which he was ordinarily
1516 VII | Whatever may have been the meaning of the manoeuvre, I cannot
1517 V | brow, as he passed his hand mechanically across his forehead, made
1518 XXXIII | Except for the loss of the medicine-chest we might have temporarily
1519 LV | and in the midst of the MELEE I was seized by one of the
1520 LVII | deliberation, consented to become a member of their family, and finds
1521 XLVI | smell of smoked bacon; the membranes of my tongue almost bristled
1522 XX | Besides, on that ever- memorable night, there had not only
1523 XXVIII | writing down figures and memoranda in his pocket-book. Mrs.
1524 XXIV | will ever be engraven in my memory; the cries of distress,
1525 XIX | probable that the leaks may be mended from the interior. By far
1526 XI | left her to the tender mercies of Miss Herbey. Curtis endeavoured
1527 XVIII | them about with all the mercilessness of a geologist. Mr. Kear
1528 XIII | that he prated away the merest nonsense. He suffered greatly,
1529 XVI | now prepared to take the meridian altitude, and succeeded
1530 IV | toute sa dignite et tout-son merite;” but to Mr. Ruby the phrase
1531 XXXV | the raft re-echo with a metallic ring.~For about half an
1532 XXVIII | expression from the language of metallurgic art, they were men “at the
1533 XXXV | For about half an hour the meteoric shower continued to descend,
1534 XXXIV | appearance in the sky known to meteorologists as a “cloud-ring,” and scarcely
1535 VII | it may affect us here in mid ocean, the phenomenon of
1536 XIV | moment it hung suspended in mid-air, and then, with a final
1537 XXIV | and hung motionless in mid-ocean.~
1538 XVI | altitude, and succeeded at midday in making his observation
1539 V | have mainly used them for a military station. But this little
1540 IV | especially to visit the mines worked by centrifugal force,
1541 XXXV | crest of the waves, and mingle with those that radiated
1542 XLV | mutual congratulations, mingled with gratitude, poured forth
1543 XVIII | to be a Fingal’s cave in miniature; a Gothic chapel that might
1544 XVIII | the harps of the Fingal minstrelsy were made. But whereas at
1545 XXVIII | the first victim of our miseries was committed to the deep.~
1546 LVII | consulted so faithfully in their misfortunes; his conduct was beyond
1547 XLI | the sharks well, and no mistake,” said a voice behind me.~
1548 XLVI | into believing that we were mitigating the pains of thirst; but
1549 XXI | think it will be best to mix the picrate with common
1550 XXI | the two substances were mixed together, and after a match
1551 XXXIX | murmur, for he sighs and moans incessantly; but, with it
1552 XLIX | take the water.~And what a mockery to our condition did it
1553 LVI | captain as though he were mocking us; no land was in sight,
1554 LIII | slake our raging thirst and moderate our gnawing hunger.~How
1555 VII | the boisterous gale has moderated into a steady breeze, the
1556 XVIII | marked even in the most modern charts. We must try and
1557 XXXII | fail her. The young lady’s modest deportment and energy of
1558 XLVI | trifling relief it brings by modifying the temperature we care
1559 XLVI | of relief by inhaling the moist coolness that rarely fails
1560 LI | that I obtained enough to moisten a little scrap of linen;
1561 XXXVII | every quarter of an hour she moistened the parched lips of the
1562 XXVI | her, beyond occasionally moistening her parched lips. The unfortunate
1563 X | channels for conveying some molecules of air. Altogether, he considers
1564 XVIII | was quite recent, Not a mollusc, not a tuft of seaweed was
1565 LI | upon us a heat like that of molten lead, and the sweat that
1566 XI | his arms and, as though he momentarily expected an explosion, he
1567 XV | reminded him that we were in momentary expectation of an explosion,
1568 XXXVIII| went and seated himself moodily on the farthest corner of
1569 XXXIV | the water.~There was no moonlight; there would be a new moon
1570 V | much to your poets,—your Moores, and your Wallers.”~“No,
1571 XX | ship back to her present moorings. Two more anchors were next
1572 II | render him, physically or morally, capable of coping with
1573 XII | his brain was in a very morbid condition.~“I succeed him
1574 XXVI | a strong breeze for the morrow, and all felt anxious to
1575 XIX | considerable skill, contrived to mortice it into its former stump,
1576 XI | matter on board to blow up a mountain. Curtis received the information
1577 XIII | the waves appeared to us mountains high, and dashed the spray
1578 XXVI | fever, could not touch a mouthful; and nothing could be done
1579 XLVI | him down until, in rapid mouthfuls, I had swallowed up the
1580 XL | his stomach by putting the mucus’ into circulation at length,
1581 XXXIX | you; the monsters would murder you if they knew it. This
1582 LV | snatch the victim from his murderers. A furious struggle ensued,
1583 XXXIV | long-drawn notes of the grandest music, and I can safely say that
1584 XXXV | crackling, like the rattle of musketry, resounded through the air.
1585 XXXII | shifts, what then?”~“Oh, we mustn’t think about that,” he
1586 XLI | advantage of my slumber to mutilate the corpse. But who could
1587 XXXVIII| my arm.~By this time the mutineers had been driven back to
1588 XXIV | 4th.—The first attempt at mutiny being thus happily suppressed,
1589 LII | him about it, I heard him mutter to himself,—~“Birds! why,
1590 XLV | which we had been lying, and mutual congratulations, mingled
1591 XXXI | prepare some lines.~All have mutually agreed to abide by the rules
1592 XLIX | the provision that had so mysteriously gone; and if any one of
1593 XIII | rumbling sound, but we were as mystified as ever to comprehend where
1594 XIX | to dive at low tide and nail a sheet of copper over the
1595 XLIV | the boatswain allowed his naked leg to hang over the side
1596 XXXVII | acute sensation of pain. A narcotic, such as opium or tobacco,
1597 XLIV | Flaypole, who was leaning over, narrowly escaped having his arm snapped
1598 LI | thought again; the wealth of a nation could not buy a drop of
1599 1 | one of the vessels of the National Steam Navigation Company,
1600 1 | a moment in telling her nationality,—for English she was, and
1601 II | Atlantic. He is a Scotchman, a native of Dundee, and is about
1602 V | another thing, I know. Let the natives boast as they will about
1603 XXXVIII| boatswain especially, who were naturally large eaters, uttered involuntary
1604 XIII | cabin.~To-day, an acrid, nauseating smoke made its way through
1605 XLIII | although mine is not a nautical eye, I could plainly distinguish
1606 1 | vessels of the National Steam Navigation Company, which join the
1607 II | of being an experienced navigator of the Atlantic. He is a
1608 XVIII | thoroughly and give future navigators the benefit of our observations.”~
1609 LVII | line, the “Ville de St. Nazaire,” which conveyed us to Europe.~
1610 XLIII | the wind, she would come nearer to us, and there would be
1611 XXV | four people are limited is necessarily very small, nowhere measuring
1612 LV | Letourneur’s clothes, and his neck and shoulders were already
1613 VII | ordered which rendered it needful to fathom the yards; but
1614 XLIV | all our efforts (and it is needless to say that they were willing
1615 VII | Walter by his gesture gave a negative answer to some question
1616 XXVI | if seemed as though the negotiation would fall through altogether.
1617 XIII | this, and filled the whole neighbourhood of the ship’s bows with
1618 XVIII | remaining nearly an hour in our newly-discovered grotto we returned to the “
1619 XXII | the ladder. The startling news was only too true; the sea-water
1620 XLVII | full daylight came well nigh at once. I had not closed
1621 XXV | out of a hundred chances, ninety-nine may be against us, but perhaps
1622 LIII | mine, yes, mine! and the ninth was that of Letourneur.~“
1623 LVII | closer tie, and that the noble-hearted girl may experience the
1624 XLVI | very violent, it was very noiseless. We were both of us aware
1625 XXI | being muffled, and much less noisy than we had expected. But
1626 XVII | he has become a complete nonentity; he exists, it is true,
1627 XIII | he prated away the merest nonsense. He suffered greatly, but
1628 XXVI | would come, for any but a north-easter would bear the frail raft
1629 1 | main and top sails, the northerly breeze drives the “Chancellor”
1630 XXXIII | morning; the pinched-in nose, the hollow cheeks, of which
1631 XLVI | floating in the air? My nostrils became distended, and I
1632 XXXIV | falls like the long-drawn notes of the grandest music, and
1633 V | between the Antilles and Nova Scotia, the Bermudas have
1634 III | two shall be absolutely null and void.~“Given at Charleston,
1635 III | good condition, marked and numbered as in the margin; which
1636 XLVI | make the attempt, but so numerous were the sharks that we
1637 XXXVII | when I find on how little nutriment it is possible to exist
1638 XLVI | compensate for the lack of nutritive matter, we were soon all
1639 XXXV | and hailstones, large as nuts, came pelting down, making
1640 XX | considerably damaged; the oakum caulkings had all started
1641 XXIX | spars which they used as oars, were exerting themselves
1642 XII | all his orders should be obeyed.”~After hearing these particulars,
1643 XXI | Kear, in spite of his many objections, was forced to leave the
1644 LVII | Para, where we became the objects of unbounded sympathy.~The
1645 V | fallen into comparative oblivion.”~“But let me tell you,
1646 XVI | explosion is past and gone; and oblivious of the fact that the ship
1647 LII | strove to penetrate the obscurity. At length the sun burst
1648 XVII | Hobart, the steward, an obsequious, sly sort of fellow, goes
1649 XVI | place, by Huntly’s senseless obstinacy, and, secondly, by the furious
1650 XLV | although the vapours had obstructed the sun’s rays, they no
1651 XLVII | about the possibility of obtaining salt by evaporating sea-water
1652 XIX | that the crew require some occasional respite; arms and back soon
1653 IV | without hearing, and her sole occupation consists in giving her orders
1654 XVII | the attempt will at least occupy us for some hours, and will
1655 X | before the final catastrophe occurs. The Lesser Antilles are
1656 XLVII | cannibals, and snatching the odious food from their clutches.
1657 XXXII | way that she could deem offensive.~The 12th, 13th, and 14th
1658 LI | the George Inn at Cardiff, offering them gin, whisky, and, above
1659 XIII | steadily declined all my offers of attention, and pertinaciously
1660 XII | with which she fulfils her offices of duty, commands my highest
1661 LVII | of us alone survive.~An official account of our rescue was
1662 II | work.~My list of the ship’s officials is incomplete unless I mention
1663 IV | say the truth, he looks older than he really is: his drooping
1664 XXVI | oracular gravity. He is an oldish man, not less than sixty,
1665 LV | and accepted as a happy omen; not a single shark now
1666 XXII | hold, came on deck with the ominous cry,—~“Two feet of water
1667 XVI | that can be given for the omission is that the islet must be
1668 XXXIII | I should not, however, omit to mention that the frequent
1669 XXI | Chancellor” started on her onward way, and two hours later
1670 LVII | the breeze was carrying us onwards slowly but surely to our
1671 XXXVIII| not always associated the opening of another year with new
1672 XXXVII | pain. A narcotic, such as opium or tobacco, might have availed
1673 XLIV | find some dead body coming opportunely to sight. But his search
1674 XXXIV | and although I could have opposed plenty of common sense to
1675 XV | abated, and that the two opposing elements were in fierce
1676 XLIV | or the pointed extremity opposite would stick firmly into
1677 XL | numbers, and in spite of some opposition, the captain has thought
1678 XXVI | He shook his head with an oracular gravity. He is an oldish
1679 LIII | share of the body of the one ordained by fate to be the victim.
1680 XLVII | been supported, so that no organic disease had affected his
1681 XXXIV | endowed with very sensitive organs can at any moment distinguish
1682 X | precaution of plugging the orifices of the pumps, under the
1683 XVIII | touching in the words of the orphaned, friendless girl who had
1684 XXXII | unfrequently falls to the lot of orphans. She had been, she said,
1685 XXVII | between the masts, which were oscillating terrifically. It was still
1686 XXXV | side with the most violent oscillations “Lash yourselves tight,”
1687 XII | everything; for he persists in ostensibly recognizing him as his superior
1688 XXVI | grave. Nay, nay; while the ould ship lasts, let’s stick
1689 XLVI | True, it did not weigh many ounces, but small as it was it
1690 XI | Fire! Fire!”~On hearing the outcry, all the crew, supposing
1691 IX | carefully every breath of outer air, so that perhaps the
1692 XLV | passing over our heads, was outpouring its contents upon us. The
1693 XLV | barrel, or imbibed by the outspread sails. It was found that
1694 LIII | Letourneur standing with outstretched hand, and with his long
1695 VII | a very unusual commotion overhead.”~“Oh, a mere nothing,”
1696 X | if I had not chanced to overhear a fragment of a conversation
1697 XVIII | that does not exist than overlook one that does. I daresay
1698 XII | to him that he had quite overlooked the fact of there being
1699 XXXVIII| stupour, and Jynxtrop was soon overpowered, and lashed tightly to the
1700 VII | that nothing short of an overt act of madness on the part
1701 LII | a lingering death should overtake me. I returned to the back
1702 XXXIX | force that was well-nigh overwhelming.~As soon as I recovered
1703 XXXVI | to Robert Curtis that I owe my real deliverance, for
1704 LIII | upon it, handed it to its owner.~The first name called was
1705 VI | SOUTH-EAST, and Robert Curtis owns that he is quite bewildered;
1706 XLII | he had been poisoned by oxide of copper. We now felt convinced
1707 IX | conflagration deprived of oxygen may smoulder itself out.
1708 VII | improvement in the ship’s pace; still it must be owned
1709 XI | down from the poop, and paced franticly up and down the
1710 XLVIII | was vainly endeavouring to pacify them.~“But who has done
1711 XII | occupied in collecting and packing together the more cherished
1712 XXXIV | almost as though the sky were padded with heavy clouds of which
1713 XXIV | somewhat pale with fatigue, paid one of her flying visits
1714 X | found the heat of the cabins painfully oppressive, and most of
1715 XXXIII | cheeks, of which the general pallour is only relieved by a hectic
1716 V | the leaves of the Bermuda palm.”~“Yes,” I replied, “the
1717 IV | accepting without a murmur the paltry salary which the bumptious
1718 V | 1643, wrote an enthusiastic panegyric on the islands, and I have
1719 VII | spoke I cast my eye at the panel-slides, which fore and aft of the
1720 XIII | made its way through the panellings that partition off the quarters
1721 XIII | raging of the hurricane. The panels of the deck are upheaved,
1722 XI | remained throughout the panic, and where we found him
1723 XLV | from the raft, the dark parallel streaks against the sky
1724 XXXVIII| his hand. I endeavoured to paralyze his movements by pinioning
1725 XL | absolute sickness. I must be pardoned for giving these distressing
1726 IV | Andre can ever forgive his parents for bringing him into the
1727 XXXVIII| Curtis, who had managed to parry the blows which had been
1728 XLIX | of the 18th those who had partaken of it appeared to suffer
1729 LI | hard not to wish to be a partaker of his hallucination.~Dowlas,
1730 XLVII | sickened at the idea of partaking of the horrid meal withdrew
1731 XLIII | stay-sails, but her hull was only partially visible above the horizon.~
1732 XLIII | to vapour or to ice! its particles of salt extracted, it would
1733 LIII | carpenter, surveying his partner in peril as though he could
1734 XIX | the smashing in of many parts besides.~As it would be
1735 IV | on any subject besides. Pascal says, “L’homme est visiblement
1736 XLVIII | scowling with vindictive passion on the group around him.~“
1737 XXXIX | not see him die!”~He spoke passionately, almost fiercely, and I
1738 XVI | deliverer, the ex- captain, passive, like an automaton, passed
1739 XIV | with Miss Herbey sitting passively at her side; M. Letourneur
1740 XIX | other he shall manage to patch up the hole in such a way
1741 XXII | were merely retracing our path doing much, however, to
1742 IV | for it but to listen as patiently as you can until he has
1743 XIII | vessel, and formed fantastic patterns about the deck.~Then to
1744 XVIII | themselves formed quite a solid pavement.~After remaining nearly
1745 XXVI | repeating it with the promise of paying them handsomely for their
1746 XLVI | idea of allowing me the peaceable possession of what he held
1747 IV | he struts about like a peacock showing its plumage, and
1748 XXI | two hours later the last peak of Ham Rock had vanished
1749 XVI | and the colour of the few peaks of rock that jutted up around
1750 XXXIV | especially when the thunder is pealing,” he said; “that majestic
1751 XLVI | like the Indians in the pearl fisheries, was it not practicable
1752 XLI | and with eager eyes he was peering down into the water. He
1753 XXXV | hailstones, large as nuts, came pelting down, making the platform
1754 XIV | her post by her side.~No pen could adequately portray
1755 VI | they float like streaming pendants. For many hours now, the “
1756 XIII | tarpaulin, but the fumes penetrated even this, and filled the
1757 VI | rain, fine as dust, which penetrates to my very skin. We have
1758 IX | every breath of air from penetrating into the hold, For some
1759 XVIII | t think you would get a penny for it, Miss Herbey; but
1760 IV | est visiblement fait pour penser. C’est toute sa dignite
1761 XXXI | the raft began to make a perceptible progress under the brisk
1762 XXXII | well. His originality of perception makes his conversation both
1763 XI | Curtis’s voice was heard peremptorily bidding them to desist;
1764 XXXVII | was scarcely capable of performing the work of respiration.
1765 IV | but quietly and gracefully performs her duties accepting without
1766 V | beyond a question extremely perilous to mariners. Situated between
1767 XXX | present. After the manifold perils of the last seventy-two
1768 XVII | doomed most certainly to perish at sea. Don’t, then, be
1769 XXXIII | him that no medicine could permanently arrest. His sharp dry cough,
1770 XV | shore, we would, weather permitting, endeavour to land, either
1771 XXXV | enormous wave, stood literally perpendicularly on its edge. For an instant,
1772 XL | although by his conduct and perpetual groanings, he might be considered
1773 XIII | deck.~Then to complete our perplexity, the wind shifted suddenly
1774 VII | started, and yet still we are persistently following a south-easterly
1775 XIV | from the stern, Miss Herbey persisting to the last in retaining
1776 XII | captain everything; for he persists in ostensibly recognizing
1777 XXIII | a minute’s rest, made a personal inspection of the hold.
1778 XLVI | expressed his willingness personally to make the attempt, but
1779 XXXIII | short breathing, his profuse perspirations, more especially in the
1780 XII | tell me how he had tried to persuade him that with a little time
1781 LII | not run the risk of being persuaded to wait until a lingering
1782 XIII | offers of attention, and pertinaciously refused to leave his cabin.~
1783 XVIII | half-a-crown a year for our pet little island.”~“I don’t
1784 LIV | support Miss Herbey’s merciful petition. The sailors did not utter
1785 IV | salary which the bumptious petroleum-merchant condescends to allow her.~
1786 XLII | of hunger. Mouth, throat, pharynx, all alike were parched
1787 XXXIV | storm one of the sublimest phenomena that we can behold—don’t
1788 XII | he were delivering some philosophic dogma, observed,—~“The explosion,
1789 XXXIV | pervaded by one incessant phosphorescent glow.~The thunder became
1790 IV | merite;” but to Mr. Ruby the phrase seems altogether inapplicable.~
1791 II | courage that would render him, physically or morally, capable of coping
1792 LII | beyond. Fierce sunbeams pierced the cloud-rifts, scorching
1793 XXVIII | ropes, so that the whole pile rises a couple of feet above
1794 XIX | number of the bales should be piled up inside against the broken
1795 XXXIII | especially in the morning; the pinched-in nose, the hollow cheeks,
1796 XXXVIII| paralyze his movements by pinioning his arms, but the rascal
1797 VII | false move, and we had to pipe hands to brace the ship
1798 IV | believe that the rolling and pitching of the vessel no longer
1799 LII | did not speak a word. I pitied him sincerely, for he alone
1800 LIV | bounded as she made her pitiful appeal. It seemed to me
1801 LII | cast one long look at the pitiless ocean and the unbroken horizon;
1802 XLVII | himself be murdered without pity by the crew, if it should
1803 XLIII | use to bait his lines. A plague the man had been to us in
1804 XIX | the ship, and to shift the planking, but the appliances are
1805 XXXVIII| year with new hopes, new plans, and coming joys? And now,
1806 XXXIII | gathered some of the marine plants known by the name of sargassos,
1807 XXXIX | smile which is incessantly playing round his lips; he goes
1808 XVIII | excursions she declined, upon the plea that the fatigue, as well
1809 LIV | them.~“My friends,” she pleaded, “will you not wait just
1810 XXXII | board the raft passes as pleasantly as it did upon Ham Rock;
1811 XXXI | be eaten when and how he pleases. The water will be given
1812 IV | eyes deep blue, whilst her pleasing countenance is altogether
1813 VII | on watch, and made them plentifully water the tarpauling that
1814 XXVII | raft, Kear and Huntly had plotted together to effect their
1815 VI | vessel makes her way as a plough. Long strips of seaweed
1816 LI | feet, but with indomitable pluck he continued to stand on
1817 XVI | the picrate; he will next plug up the leak, and then, with
1818 X | taken the precaution of plugging the orifices of the pumps,
1819 IV | like a peacock showing its plumage, and to borrow the words
1820 XXVIII | figures and memoranda in his pocket-book. Mrs. Kear, in spite of
1821 XXX | s tools, we have each a pocket-knife, and O’Ready an old tin
1822 XXVI | think that he could not have pocketed anything less than a hundred
1823 V | Archipelago, sung by your poet Moore. The exile Waller,
1824 XXXIV | of common sense to their poetical sentiments, I said no more,
1825 XVIII | Mrs. Kear at first refused point-blank to allow her to leave the
1826 XLII | had taken some corrosive poison. Of course it was quite
1827 XIV | Chancellor” under bare poles, was driven, like a gigantic
1828 XXXIV | calm, almost stagnant as a pond. Now, however, long undulations
1829 XXXV | also disappeared.~The same ponderous wave laid me prostrate on
1830 VIII | was obliged to open the porthole of my cabin, on the starboard
1831 XIV | No pen could adequately portray the horrors of this fearful
1832 XII | you must take this for my positive order; you must, from this
1833 XXXII | and the watch, who are posted on the fore, under orders
1834 LIII | There was no reason for postponing the fatal lottery. There
1835 XXV | reluctance, all returned to their posts.~When daylight had sufficiently
1836 LV | like wild beasts ready to pounce upon their devoted prey.~
1837 XXXVI | Eight days, with half a pound a day apiece, will consume
1838 LVII | Herbey’s voice was heard pouring out fervent praise to Heaven,
1839 LI | we are enduring. The sky pours down upon us a heat like
1840 X | all power and energy; and practically leaves the command of the
1841 XXVI | not that the sailors, with practised dexterity, manage to hoist
1842 VI | way over some illimitable prairie.~
1843 XV | to the poop.~“Heaven be praised!” he said, “the water is
1844 V | have chosen to sing the praises of the Bermudas, it has
1845 XIII | in connexion with that he prated away the merest nonsense.
1846 XXXIV | comes, if you like, but pray don’t wish for it.”~“And
1847 X | that our situation hitherto precarious enough, had now become most
1848 VII | the reason for these extra precautions I did not say anything to
1849 LIII | doomed to die, would only precede the rest by a few days,
1850 XXV | our case is not without precedent. In the year 1795 a three-master,
1851 XXXVII | tropical heat, which during the preceding days had caused us such
1852 XXVII | for those to whom life is precious.”~At a quarter to eight
1853 XXXVIII| though I were looking over a precipice.~My symptoms were not shared
1854 XXXV | knocked down and probably precipitated into the sea; as it was,
1855 VI | cloudy atmosphere entirely precludes us from taking the sun’s
1856 VI | not remaining below; but I prefer being on deck notwithstanding
1857 XXXII | that our condition is far preferable to what it was when we were
1858 XXV | to cut down the rigging preparatory to taking possession of
1859 XXXI | sailors have already begun to prepare some lines.~All have mutually
1860 X | listening to what followed.~“Preposterous! shameful!” exclaimed Falsten; “
1861 XLVII | right to denounce me in the presence of all my fellow- passengers;
1862 XLVII | of the raft.~A horrible presentiment carried me to the foot of
1863 VI | directly with the wind, by presenting her broad bows to the sea;
1864 XXV | certain, the ‘Chancellor’ preserves her equilibrium for the
1865 LII | felt that I would like to press the hand of a friend before
1866 XLVII | reigns upon the raft. I presume that nearly all have gone
1867 VII | nobody was called up, I presumed that nothing serious was
1868 II | left shoulder. I do not pretend to be much of a physiognomist,
1869 LIV | incredible as it may seem, prevailed.~Just as the boatswain was
1870 XLVII | difficulty in the world in preventing Andre from rushing out upon
1871 LII | monotonous, as in the most primitive period of its formation.
1872 IV | returning from visiting the principal places in the United States.
1873 XVIII | ourselves on the basaltic prism that crowned its summit.~
1874 XX | which is once more her prison.~“Well, captain,” says the
1875 XXI | rang through the air; our prison-doors were opened, and we were
1876 XXI | were opened, and we were prisoners no more!~At high tide the “
1877 XLVII | had been living on some private store which, by clandestine
1878 XLVII | was vain. The idea of my proceedings being exposed by him was
1879 XIII | as he passes, and then proceeds in the calmest manner to
1880 XXI | which would be necessary to produce a shock. Besides, it is
1881 XXI | is a crystalline bitter product extracted from coal- tar,
1882 XIV | but his last words were productive of serious consequences.
1883 IV | contrived to do business at a profit, he has realized a considerable
1884 XXXIII | his short breathing, his profuse perspirations, more especially
1885 XXXIII | to those we saw in such profusion between the Bermudas and
1886 XLV | with electricity. Thus our prognostications ended in disappointment;
1887 L | hands lying upon knees that project sharply from his worn-out
1888 XXIX | only the three mast-tops projected from the waves.~But all
1889 VI | carpeted thickly with masses of prolific fucus, is a vast unbroken
1890 XXXIX | it has only served to prolong your misery.”~“Never mind,
1891 XVII | there is every sign of a prolonged calm.~Meantime Curtis is
1892 II | it, would take the more prominent position—I mean the mate.
1893 XII | he required and withdrew, promising him that all his orders
1894 XLVI | direction. Following the promptings of my scent, rather than
1895 XVIII | have visited the Hebrides, pronounced it to be a Fingal’s cave
1896 XVII | the weather will continue propitious; it wouldn’t take many storms
1897 XX | reach the shore. What I now propose to do is to stop the leak
1898 XVI | common sense demands. He proposes, when the fire is quite
1899 LIII | heard and understood the proposition; in fact, it had been in
1900 XVII | very sanguine view of our prospects.~“But surely,” I protested, “
1901 XXXI | one soul, and may Heaven protect us!”~After delivering these
1902 XXXIII | couple of feet high, which protected us from the direct action
1903 XLVIII | I beckoned to Curtis for protection, and he came and stood beside
1904 XXXII | should have been her natural protectors, M. Letourneur is the only
1905 XVII | prospects.~“But surely,” I protested, “it will not be difficult
1906 XXIII | curl inwards, and his ears protrude, whilst his bleared and
1907 V | smiling, “but poets are like proverbs; you can always find one
1908 XVII | it most gratefully, as a providential circumstance, that Captain
1909 XLIII | or gesture was enough, to provoke us to anger that was little
1910 XXVI | forestay; then, in a way which provoked shouts of laughter from
1911 II | of the voyage, the close proximity into which we must be thrown,
1912 XIX | nevertheless, deemed it prudent to persevere in working
1913 XXII | clued up the top-gallants, prudently reckoning that, under the
1914 VIII | asked Jynxstrop, the cook.~“Pshaw!” said Owen, “do you suppose
1915 XLIV | west have brought us a few puffs of wind; and in spite of
1916 XXXVII | fixed some nails that they pulled out of the flooring of the
1917 XIX | unlading of the ship commenced. Pulleys and tackling were put over
1918 XLII | his body swollen, and his pulse, though feeble, was rapid
1919 LII | all energy had failed my pulses, and almost immediately
1920 XIII | would be easier than to pump the water out again?”~“I
1921 XVI | determined should not be pumped out at present, as he wanted
1922 XL | over the raft has terribly punished the feet and legs of some
1923 XVIII | as to the rock being of purely volcanic origin, upheaved
1924 XXVII | and holding tightly to the purlin—for the waves made the masts
1925 III | agreements, all of the same purport; on the condition that when
1926 XLI | lieutenant’s pockets, which we purposed, if either of us should
1927 XXXIII | the man insolently, and pursued his course.~The boatswain
1928 XXXVIII| his accomplices.~Curtis’ pushed aside the excited rascals,
1929 XVI | likely to founder when she puts out to sea, we feel a confidence
1930 XL | of which there is only a quart now left, it has been stowed
1931 1 | loitering about the Charleston quays, my eye lighted upon this
1932 LII | nothing that would serve to quench the fire that was burning
1933 XXVI | the ship?”~He turned his quid with the most serene composure,
1934 XXXIII | temporarily reduced this by quinine; but it is only too evident
1935 LII | torments of thirst were racking me with redoubled vigour.
1936 XXXV | and mingle with those that radiated from the fiery vault above.
1937 XXVI | have put their trust in rafts or boats sure and they found
1938 XV | over the gunwale, along the rails, and joined Curtis on the
1939 XLV | that only a few pints of rain- water had fallen into the
1940 XLV | was a look as if it were raining all around. Longing eyes
1941 XLI | as it had been, served to rally our shattered energies;
1942 XXI | introduced the compound was rammed closely into the hole.~Notwithstanding
1943 XXI | obstacle. A loud hurrah rang through the air; our prison-doors
1944 XLIII | had not been within the range of sight.~“My friends,”
1945 XLVIII | they set to work again to ransack every quarter of the raft;
1946 XLIV | talking rapidly to himself, ransacked every corner of the raft,
1947 XXX | distribution of our daily rations becomes absolutely necessary.~
1948 XXXV | and a crackling, like the rattle of musketry, resounded through
1949 XXXIII | hopeless malady is making ravages upon him that no medicine
1950 XXXVI | I noticed, swallowed it ravenously, others reserved it for
1951 XLII | dejection followed this phantom ray of hope. All returned to
1952 XXXV | the platform of the raft re-echo with a metallic ring.~For
1953 XII | some distressing thought, re-entered his cabin without a word.~
1954 XIII | mizen-mast. The fire now reaches to the cabin occupied by
1955 XXXV | though strengthened by the reaction, they rose with the utmost
1956 1 | chronicle will ever find a reader.~
1957 XXX | that was placed on deck in readiness for the first raft having
1958 XXXVII | after Dowlas had carefully readjusted the mast, the sail was once
1959 IV | years of age. She never reads, never talks, and I believe
1960 LIV | resolved themselves into realities, so that nothing appeared
1961 XLVI | should I complain? Was not I reaping the benefit of that secret
1962 XXVI | considerable solidity. The reasonableness of this was self-apparent,
1963 XII | placed us, and for other reasons known to myself, has thought
1964 XXXIX | Taking his hand, I tried to reassure him.~“We will not despair
1965 XLIV | strength of his line, and reassuring-himself that it was fastened firmly
1966 VIII | that some sailors are most rebelliously disposed, and require to
1967 XXXIV | all too well, as being the rebound produced by a distant tempest.
1968 XLV | fancied I could see the drops rebounding from the surface of the
1969 XLI | future, but we began to recall and discuss the past; and
1970 VIII | sousings a necessity, and recalled to my recollection how,
1971 V | languid voice was heard recalling her for some trifling service
1972 XIII | mizen.~The sight of Huntly recalls to my recollection the prisoner
1973 XXXI | already been prepared for its reception, and in order to support
1974 XXXVIII| the brandy-barrel, and had recklessly swallowed its contents.
1975 XXXI | or the Brazils, we cannot reckon at all upon such a contingency
1976 L | some progress. The captain reckons that we must be advancing
1977 XII | he persists in ostensibly recognizing him as his superior officer,
1978 XIV | an enormous wave which, recoiling with resistless violence,
1979 XXXVIII| What a rush of sorrowful recollections overwhelmed our minds! Had
1980 XLIII | from approaching sharks. No recommendation, however, on our part, nor
1981 1 | However, I will begin to record the incidents of our daily
1982 XLIV | itself was again to have recourse to Miss Herbey’s red shawl,
1983 XII | save her.” Then quickly recovering himself, he continued, “
1984 XXXV | adrift beyond all power of recovery, and the same blast blew
1985 LII | burning our bodies like red-hot iron; but it was only above
1986 XXIII | with the exception of a reddish beard, which terminates
1987 XX | about twenty feet, and were redoubling our efforts when the ship
1988 XXXI | than 200 gallons, but by reducing each person’s allowance
1989 XIII | of the ship’s bows with a reeking vapour that was positively
1990 LV | with horror, and my brain reeled as though I were intoxicated.~
1991 XIX | backstays, were then carefully refitted, some of the sails were
1992 X | Frenchman; for at times when I reflect upon the eight-and-twenty
1993 XLIII | as their plunge seemed to refresh them, I and three of my
1994 XII | his superior officer, and refuses to conceal from him our
1995 LVI | Curtis and Andre (who had regained his liberty) had fought
1996 XLIV | of them. I could not help regarding them as living sepulchres,
1997 XXXIV | has been driven into the region of storms, of which it has
1998 XXX | not pause in my work of registering the events of our drama,
1999 XI | board?”~In an instant I regretted my words. Most earnestly
2000 X | remark. I could not help regretting that I had given Curtis
2001 L | sit.~Silence continues to reign upon the raft. Not a sound,
2002 XLVII | the most profound, now reigns upon the raft. I presume
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