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2003 XLIV | doubt if one of us would reject the tough and untempting
2004 XLV | lips. To my surprise, he rejected it immediately, and upon
2005 XXXII | which we can hardly fail to rejoice, for the high temperature
2006 IV | mistress, her lips rarely relax from their ordinary grave
2007 XLII | allowance of water; and this relaxation of the ordinary rule enabled
2008 XV | beneath us, and the waves were relaxing in their violence. Once
2009 XLIV | the animal could possibly release it. Dowlas seized his hatchet,
2010 XVI | that they are men to be relied on. As for Curtis, words
2011 XXV | could ill disguise their reluctance, all returned to their posts.~
2012 XXXII | lives than his own, we are reluctant to disturb his silent meditations.~
2013 XII | particulars, I could not help remarking how fortunate it was that
2014 XV | portion of South America.~I reminded him that we were in momentary
2015 XLI | of us should survive, to remit to his mother. But as we
2016 XXXVI | a strict account of the remnant of our provisions. Of all
2017 X | that Falsten continued to remonstrate, whilst Ruby answered by
2018 VIII | to-day I have observed Curtis remonstrating somewhat vehemently with
2019 X | Evidently he had not the remotest suspicion that the cargo
2020 XIII | mass all ready for prompt removal to the boats whenever we
2021 XXV | top-gallants, in the hope that by removing everything that could compromise
2022 XIX | the running rigging was renewed. Injury, to some extent,
2023 XLV | with which I imbibed that renovating moisture. The parched and
2024 XXII | labour was hard and scarcely repaid them; the pumps were constantly
2025 XLI | him, and encouraged him to repeat his attempt.~“Oh, yes,”
2026 VII | on in whispers. The man repeatedly shook his head as he replied
2027 XXVI | his request, but on his repeating it with the promise of paying
2028 VII | to the subject, and only repeats what he has said before,
2029 XLVII | the bottom of my heart I repented of my cruel selfishness.~
2030 XLIX | It was enough to make us repine over the loss of the provision
2031 XXXVII | was washed away has been replaced, so that we are no longer
2032 XLIV | and they had no means of replacing it, there was no further
2033 XLV | abundant clouds might come and replenish our store.~The next consideration
2034 XLIII | however, on our part, nor any representation of the benefit we felt we
2035 III | their order, or to their representative, who shall on due delivery
2036 XLVII | food from their clutches. I represented to him the hopelessness
2037 XXXIX | fixed upon me, and I saw reproach and astonishment written
2038 IV | consuming himself by exaggerated reproaches on account of the infirmity
2039 II | the “Chancellor,” has the reputation of being an experienced
2040 XLV | revived with a strange and requickened life.~The rain lasted about
2041 LVII | he is an invalid, and be requires, as he deserves, the best
2042 XVIII | against the deep green water resembled nothing so much, as a fine
2043 XXXII | speaks without a certain reserve. To him, whose age gives
2044 XXXVII | thirst, Miss Herbey, besides reserving for him a portion of her
2045 XXXIV | floated beneath.~As the reservoir of electricity was confined
2046 XIII | shrivelling planks; the resin oozed out from the knots
2047 XIV | wave which, recoiling with resistless violence, dashed it to atoms
2048 XVII | are still a-light he has resorted to the expedient of thoroughly
2049 XXXV | the rattle of musketry, resounded through the air. This was
2050 XVIII | will need to keep it at a respectful distance, for they will
2051 XXXVII | of performing the work of respiration. The young man was now suffering
2052 XLVI | After a time I fell into a restless, dreamy doze. I was neither
2053 XLI | Falsten, and myself could restore order, so that we might
2054 LII | lingering hope he endeavoured to restrain me. But all in vain, my
2055 XLIII | the greatest difficulty in restraining my expressions of delight.~“
2056 VII | it did not seem to have resulted in any improvement in the
2057 IV | his ideas do not go beyond retail trade, his mind having been
2058 XXXV | cords that bound us should retain their hold, it seemed perfectly
2059 XIV | persisting to the last in retaining her post by her side.~No
2060 XI | being endowed with Curtis’s reticence and self-control, before
2061 XIII | determined manner, the men retire, some clambering into the
2062 IX | not be advisable for us to retrace our course, and make for
2063 XXII | consciousness that we were merely retracing our path doing much, however,
2064 XLVI | hunger which invariably returns with redoubled vigour at
2065 XLVII | the crew, if it should be revealed that, unknown to them, he
2066 IV | his birth.”~“He is full of reverence and love for you, sir,”
2067 XL | boatswain ever since the revolt kept bound to the mast,
2068 XL | allayed; but some of us revolted against the loathsome food,
2069 XLVII | pangs of hunger by such revolting means. I know nothing for
2070 XXIII | immediately returned with a loaded revolver in his hand.~For a moment
2071 LVII | experience the happiness that so richly she deserves?~ ~
2072 XIX | and two feet above the rider of the keel; three planks
2073 IV | exposed as she is to the ridiculous whims and fancies of a capricious
2074 XXVI | brightly forth through a rift in the clouds, and the waves
2075 VII | but it was soon all put to rights. It was nothing, nothing
2076 XLVII | cold, and the limbs were rigid; there was no chance that
2077 XIII | raving maniac, had to be kept rigidly under restraint. I went
2078 XVI | of those which formed the rim of a small and almost circular
2079 XL | example; a leather hat, the rims of caps, in short, anything
2080 XXIII | encircled with thick red rings.~Amongst the five or six
2081 XLVI | for one moment hear of his risking his life in a venture of
2082 LVI | near the Amazon; no other river has a current strong enough
2083 LIII | himself.~“Go on,” almost roared the carpenter, surveying
2084 XVII | waves; and, although the rocky island might afford a temporary
2085 VIII | require to be ruled with a rod of iron.~Yesterday and to-day
2086 XIII | by the heat, followed the rollings of the vessel, and formed
2087 XVIII | was the same dark canopied roof with its interstices filled
2088 LV | executioners, I seemed to be rooted to the spot where I was
2089 XXVI | horizon were tinged with a rosy glare that foreboded a strong
2090 1 | takes a south- west course, rounding the lighthouse at the corner
2091 LI | thought; but the idea did not rouse me in the least. The laughter
2092 XLVII | that the cannibals were rousing my envy instead of exciting
2093 V | to think about trying new routes. Here we are at the 7th
2094 XLIV | its back, exhibited long rows of pointed teeth.~I know
2095 XXXVIII| may be, some gutter, some rubbish-heap, some corner may yet be
2096 XXVII | clock in the morning, I was rudely aroused by the roaring of
2097 XLIII | breeze that just then was ruffling the surface of the water.
2098 VIII | disposed, and require to be ruled with a rod of iron.~Yesterday
2099 XXXI | mutually agreed to abide by the rules that have been laid down,
2100 XIII | too, we could hear a dull rumbling sound, but we were as mystified
2101 XLV | I listened for distant rumblings which might announce an
2102 XXVI | framework of the netting that runs along the vessel’s sides.
2103 XIII | clothes already alight, rushes upon deck. Like a salamander
2104 IV | pour penser. C’est toute sa dignite et tout-son merite;”
2105 XXXIII | they would find contained a saccharine juice, affording considerable
2106 LIV | sail appear, the horrible sacrifice will be accomplished. Stifling
2107 LIV | now yearning to see him sacrificed to their cravings. At the
2108 XLI | Curtis to assist me in the sad office. The body was frightfully
2109 XXXVII | beginning to tell upon us sadly, and our sunken cheeks and
2110 XVI | passengers and crew were safest on board.~Acting upon this
2111 XIII | issue upwards as if from a safety-valve. An universal consternation
2112 XLVI | farther, under a thick roll of sail- cloth, I was not long in
2113 XLV | still and inanimate upon our sail-cloth, they would scarcely, at
2114 XXVI | shelter’ afforded by the sail-tent, would have been unbearable.
2115 VI | not like. Have you ever sailed with him before?”~“No; this
2116 IV | Chancellor” is a rapid sailer, and more than a match for
2117 XLVIII | strong suspicion that for the sake of his son, for whom he
2118 XIII | rushes upon deck. Like a salamander he passes across the burning
2119 IV | without a murmur the paltry salary which the bumptious petroleum-merchant
2120 XII | on deck. As we left the saloon, in which we had been sitting,
2121 1 | hollowed out amongst the sand-banks. The captain takes a south-
2122 1 | closely trimmed; the last sandy point is safely coasted,
2123 XVIII | Sicily, or the group of the Santorini, in the Grecian Archipelago.
2124 VI | called by the Spaniards “sargasso,” the abundance of which
2125 XVI | making his observation most satisfactorily. After retiring for a short
2126 XXXI | will certainly not fully satisfy the cravings of hunger and
2127 XLV | could by wringing out the saturated sails, when Curtis made
2128 LI | lead, and the sweat that saturates the tattered clothes that
2129 XVII | expedient of thoroughly saturating the upper layers of the
2130 XLV | each other with looks as savage as though we were about
2131 XXIII | to approach him, he said savagely,—~“I advise you not to touch
2132 XLVI | explain to what a degree of savageness the one idea that haunted
2133 IV | Gratiolet, “il se flaire, il se savoure, il se goute.” Why he should
2134 XLVI | before another still more savoury puff induced me to take
2135 V | that, perhaps, on a larger scale than has yet been anticipated.
2136 XVI | he continued eagerly to scan the western horizon. Astonishment
2137 XXXIII | than any of us from the scarcity of water, and I noticed
2138 XLIV | breathless silence, as the scarlet rag, distinct as it was
2139 XII | I may use the formula of science, is not necessary, but contingent.”~“
2140 XXXIV | his experience, has some scientific knowledge, and he pointed
2141 XLII | like a furnace, and the sun scorches like fire. The torments
2142 II | sailors, all English or Scotch, making eighteen altogether,
2143 V | between the Antilles and Nova Scotia, the Bermudas have ever
2144 III | Silas Huntly, of Dundee, Scotland, commander of the ship ‘
2145 IX | mysterious words, the constant scourings of the deck and the oppressive
2146 XLVIII | has done it,” said Dowlas, scowling with vindictive passion
2147 XXXVIII| their interstices has been scraped out devoured, our resources
2148 XLVI | that I kept myself from screaming out one instant more, and
2149 III | proper place by the aid of screw-jacks, so that the whole freight
2150 XXXII | examine the sea with the most scrupulous attention, have had no change
2151 XXVI | head as he gave long and scrutinizing looks at the sea and sky.
2152 XXIV | Chancellor,” which had been scudding along rapidly with the wind,
2153 IV | the same dimensions. She scuds along merrily in the freshening
2154 XVIII | as though chiselled by a sculptor’s hand; the same sonorous
2155 VIII | to larboard through the scupper- holes. After watching the
2156 XXIII | was escaping through the scupper-holes than was finding its way
2157 II | the passengers. Probably sea- sickness has prevented some
2158 XX | been hauled as far as her sea-range would allow; her keel grazed
2159 II | character. That he is a good seaman and thoroughly understands
2160 XLVI | the track of his prey, I searched everywhere I could, now
2161 VII | saw him cast a quick and searching glance upon the deck, and
2162 III | the earliest convenient season, and by the direct route,
2163 XXXIV | Until midnight we kept our seats upon the stern of the raft,
2164 XVI | took his seat in the most secluded corner of the poop. The
2165 XLVII | horrid meal withdrew to the seclusion of our tent; it was bad
2166 XI | order to insure complete secrecy, it was necessary to secure
2167 XLII | brought off some bluish secretion from his stomach, the character
2168 XXXVII | the gnawing agony; but of sedatives we had none, so the pain
2169 XXXV | down and stifled in the seething waters.~At last, towards
2170 XIII | universal consternation seizes one and all: we must leave
2171 1 | equally true that if I had selected New Orleans for my embarkation
2172 L | mere shadow of his former self, and I doubt whether any
2173 XXVI | reasonableness of this was self-apparent, and as the crew had recovered
2174 XI | with Curtis’s reticence and self-control, before he could interfere
2175 XXXII | life—a life of patience and self-denial such as not unfrequently
2176 XLIV | which his sorrowful and self-denying father had entrusted to
2177 XVIII | had already rendered that self-indulgent lady sundry services which
2178 XXII | but he had not lost his self-possession. He quietly informed such
2179 LII | vigour. All instinct of self-preservation had left me, and I felt
2180 LIII | the father’s devotion in self-sacrifice that led him to undertake
2181 XXVI | began to think that the selfish fellow was coming to join
2182 XLVII | heart I repented of my cruel selfishness.~Meantime the moon rose
2183 IV | life in mere buying and selling, and as he has generally
2184 XII | property and without the semblance of a care or a thought for
2185 V | hidden reefs that lie in a semicircle about two or three leagues
2186 VII | the mate had asked him. “Send me the boatswain, Walter,”
2187 VII | always spoken rationally and sensibly. He shows no tokens of insanity.
2188 XXXIV | any one endowed with very sensitive organs can at any moment
2189 XXXIV | sense to their poetical sentiments, I said no more, but let
2190 XLIV | regarding them as living sepulchres, which ere long might swallow
2191 XXXV | This was produced by a series of electrical concussions,
2192 XXXI | Falsten assisted him with some serviceable suggestions, and in a couple
2193 XXIV | violent shock, and began to settle, The sea rose over my ancles
2194 XXXVII | After the storm the wind settled back into its old quarter,
2195 III | gun-deck of the aforesaid ship, seventeen hundred bales of cotton,
2196 V | were all the rage in the seventeenth century, although laterly
2197 LIII | breathless silence. The seventh name was Miss Herbey’s,
2198 XXX | manifold perils of the last seventy-two days’ voyage all are too
2199 XXXVI | the effect of calming the severity of the hurricane, and tended
2200 V | it has been supposed that Shakspeare was depicting them in the
2201 XLVIII | now to search the tent.~“Shame!” I said. “You ought to
2202 X | followed.~“Preposterous! shameful!” exclaimed Falsten; “nothing
2203 XIV | memorandum-book, but I was far from sharing his, composure, for I was
2204 XLIV | 15th.—After this further shattering of our excited hopes death
2205 1 | She is two years old, is sheathed and secured with copper,
2206 XXXIV | lightning ever and again shed around us a livid glare
2207 XXXIV | instant there issued forth sheets of electricity that formed
2208 XVI | had been carried on to the shelf of rock, but the number
2209 XVIII | very rocks, and that no shelving shores prevented us coasting
2210 X | potash on board?” I almost shieked.~“Yes,” said Falsten, “a
2211 XIX | careen the ship, and to shift the planking, but the appliances
2212 XXXII | has never once required shifting; and the watch, who are
2213 XXXII | but supposing the wind shifts, what then?”~“Oh, we mustn’
2214 III | cotton to Liverpool; that the shippers are Bronsfield, of Charleston,
2215 IX | all an unusual thing for ships laden with cotton to arrive
2216 XLIX | is always the case with shipwrecked men, we were tormented by
2217 XXXVII | reading the histories of shipwrecks, I have suspected the accounts
2218 XII | energetic man, who will shirk nothing that he believes
2219 LI | have hung about the raft in shoals.~To-day I tried to gain
2220 XIV | glow, and the clouds above shone with a lurid glare. Long
2221 XXVI | gave the unfortunate man a shove, and sent him rolling down
2222 XVI | that jutted up around us showed that the reef on which we
2223 IV | struts about like a peacock showing its plumage, and to borrow
2224 XXXVII | examined his lines, the crimson shred was still hanging intact
2225 VI | been torn off our backs in shreds. The scene presented to
2226 XIII | occupied by Mrs. Kear, who, shrieking wildly, is brought on deck
2227 XIII | effect upon the scorched and shrivelling planks; the resin oozed
2228 X | whilst Ruby answered by shrugging his shoulders. At length
2229 L | energetic man that he was, has shrunk into a mere shadow of his
2230 XVIII | Island, off the coast of Sicily, or the group of the Santorini,
2231 LVII | life to the care of the sick and suffering.~“Then why
2232 XLVII | brutes.~The four of us who sickened at the idea of partaking
2233 XXXVIII| at Owen. But Owen made a sidelong movement to avoid the blow,
2234 XVIII | with a half-suppressed sigh, “and yet it is a place
2235 L | an impossibility, of our sighting land, or being picked up
2236 XXIII | ship he would have made signals of distress, and would not
2237 XLIII | fire died out; and yet no signs of help.~The temper of resignation
2238 XXII | despair, but he was soon silenced by Miss Herbey asserting
2239 XX | narrow passage. All seemed simple. But unlooked-for difficulties
2240 LV | and we rushed forwards simultaneously to snatch the victim from
2241 LII | speak a word. I pitied him sincerely, for he alone of us all
2242 V | and Moore have chosen to sing the praises of the Bermudas,
2243 XX | regular monotony to the sing-song tune hummed by one of the
2244 XIII | his confinement, and with singed hair and his clothes already
2245 XVIII | substructure.~“This is indeed a singular island,” said M. Letourneur; “
2246 XXIII | forehead is furrowed with sinister-looking wrinkles, his lips curl
2247 XXIX | quite sure ye are that she’s sinkin?” he said.~“Ay, ay! sure
2248 XVIII | as Andre had finished his sketch we descended by a slope
2249 XVIII | its summit.~Andre took a sketch-book from his pocket, and proceeded
2250 XLV | supplication to the relentless skies.~It was eleven o’clock in
2251 II | the mate, they brought us skilfully enough through the narrow
2252 XLIV | and pointed to a dark mass skimming along the surface of the
2253 XLV | though we were about to slaughter and without delay eat up
2254 XLIV | over, without holding, the slimy bodies of the sharks. As
2255 XXI | way for the powder which, slower in its action, will complete
2256 XVII | steward, an obsequious, sly sort of fellow, goes through
2257 XX | pieces, and construct a smaller vessel that might have carried
2258 XXXVIII| instruments had been hopelessly smashed, and Curtis had no longer
2259 XIX | ashore did not result in the smashing in of many parts besides.~
2260 IV | never laughs; he rarely even smiles, and then only on his son:
2261 XLVI | cravings was the smell of smoked bacon; the membranes of
2262 LIV | and the boatswain in a smothered voice said,—~“Very well,
2263 IX | conflagration deprived of oxygen may smoulder itself out. That is our
2264 XVII | heart of the cargo is still smouldering, and that it will still
2265 XIV | the ground; the mizen-mast snaps short off level with the
2266 LV | forwards simultaneously to snatch the victim from his murderers.
2267 XLVII | upon the cannibals, and snatching the odious food from their
2268 XXXVI | heard Flaypole say with a sneer,—~“Those who are going to
2269 XXXVIII| want to eat me, do you?” sneered Owen, with the most hardened
2270 XLVI | smell.”~Again and again I sniffed and became more convinced
2271 XIV | casts a rapid glance at the snow- white billows, and turning
2272 XVII | nothing of the young lady’s society. As for Silas Huntly, he
2273 XIX | spoiled. One by one the sodden bales were placed in the
2274 XXII | secured firmly to the solid soil of the Ham Rock reef, but
2275 XXXI | you, one and all, to think solely of our common welfare; let
2276 XVI | But whatever may be the solution of the mystery, here we
2277 XLIII | problem that none could solve. Little, however, did it
2278 1 | determination is a problem to be solved in the future. However,
2279 XI | thought, as it might be, solving some hard mechanical problem.
2280 XVI | the sea again resumed its sombre hue, betokening deep water.
2281 XLVIII | gruffly; “it’s all gone somewheres, and we are a going to search
2282 XVIII | sculptor’s hand; the same sonorous vibration of the air across
2283 XXXIX | consolation; they die the soonest;” I replied coldly.~Had
2284 XXXVII | tobacco, might have availed to soothe, if not to cure, the gnawing
2285 XIV | there issued a column of sooty vapour that ascended to
2286 XXIV | his father glance at him sorrowfully, as though he wondered what
2287 XLIII | the vessel, and made all sorts of conjectures as to the
2288 XXXVII | knew not what to say, and sought to evade his question.~“
2289 XXIII | morning, after taking the sounding, the boatswain could not
2290 VII | that you have slept so soundly. I heard the noise of which
2291 LV | keenly alive to the faintest sounds, and every ripple of the
2292 LII | I eagerly swallowed the source of my very life, I felt
2293 XXXI | forget that there are two sources from which we may hope to
2294 VIII | that rendered such extra sousings a necessity, and recalled
2295 VI | we are sailing directly SOUTH-EAST, and Robert Curtis owns
2296 VII | persistently following a south-easterly course! I cannot bring myself
2297 VI | continually to the south.~How southerly our course has been is very
2298 1 | northwards to New York or southwards to New Orleans. It is quite
2299 VI | the wrack, called by the Spaniards “sargasso,” the abundance
2300 XXVI | the clouds, and the waves sparkled again as if illumined by
2301 XXXII | A shoal of fish, of the sparus tribe, swarmed round the
2302 XLII | was contracted by repeated spasms, his tongue was parched,
2303 XXXI | raft has passed without any special incident. At eight o’clock
2304 XXXVI | has fallen upon all: the spectre of famine has appeared amongst
2305 L | longer human beings; we are spectres.~
2306 X | Curtis however, has set all speculation on his part to rest by telling
2307 XXXIX | on our minds, and Owen’s speech coming as a sort of climax,
2308 XI | gasped for breath, and was speechless. All of a sudden he threw
2309 XXXII | crew as are not on watch spend the greater portion of their
2310 XVIII | permitted a day to pass without spending some time in our Ham Rock
2311 XLV | mouths wide open. The rain splashed into my face, wetted my
2312 XXIII | of cotton we could hear a splashing, or rather gurgling sound;
2313 V | as they will about their splendid climate, they, are visited
2314 XIX | that the cotton was all but spoiled. One by one the sodden bales
2315 XXIII | twice did Owen, acting as spokesman for the rest, refuse; and
2316 IX | he answered, “from the spontaneous combustion of the cotton.
2317 XXXII | fins, covered with white spots and stripes. Here, on our
2318 XXXII | belonging to the species of spotted dog-fish, took their place.
2319 XLV | exposed, and every sail was spread out to the fullest extent
2320 XV | fire which was as steadily spreading to the whole bulk of the
2321 XXII | should have a tendency to spring the leak afresh, the “Chancellor”
2322 XX | not only been the ordinary spring- tide, but an equinoctial
2323 XX | to take advantage of the spring-tide, which would occur to-day,
2324 XLI | sojourn on Ham Rock, of the springing of the leak, of our terrible
2325 IV | fortune in the petroleum springs in the United States. He
2326 XXII | but whether the leak had sprung afresh, or whether the caulking
2327 XXXI | it more firmly he placed spurs of wood, forming arched
2328 VI | the unusual spectacle. The squally gusts make the metal shrouds
2329 XIX | much less than four feet square, and was situated thirty
2330 1 | The “Chancellor” is a fine square-rigged three-master, of 900 tons
2331 XLV | drinkable as the other? He squeezed a few drops out of one of
2332 XVI | provisions are quite intact. The stack of spare sails, which had
2333 LI | cracked, discordant voice, he staggered about amongst us like an
2334 XXXIV | sea had been calm, almost stagnant as a pond. Now, however,
2335 XLIV | convulsively amidst waves that were stained with blood.~“Steady! steady!”
2336 XIII | impulse is to rush to the staircase and do what I can to set
2337 XIII | is now the only available standing-place. Water began to lose its
2338 XLIII | horror of our situation stare us in the face. There was
2339 XLIV | excited hopes death alone now stares us in the face; slow and
2340 XLII | peace!~About noon we were startled by sharp cries of agony,
2341 XLIX | greedily glancing upon us, starved as they knew us to be, as
2342 XLI | not much amongst fourteen starving persons, but, small as the
2343 V | used them for a military station. But this little archipelago,
2344 XXXV | upright and motionless as a statue.~Soon dense masses of lurid
2345 L | at all, so motionless and statue-like does he sit.~Silence continues
2346 LV | fury of the men who were so staunchly bent upon their bloody purpose.~“
2347 XXXV | of the water-barrels was staved in, so that the water which
2348 VI | low-reefed top-sail and fore stay-sail has been brought ahull,
2349 XLIII | even to her royals and stay-sails, but her hull was only partially
2350 XXV | Miss Herbey, of course, staying by her side.~As soon as
2351 XXI | now to serve her in good stead, and I now saw what a lucky
2352 XLVI | from the front, I crept stealthily as a cat under the sails
2353 1 | present there is no direct steamship service between South Carolina
2354 IV | assisted him up the few steep steps that led to the poop.~
2355 XIV | all communication between stem and stern.~I broke the dismal
2356 IV | assisted him up the few steep steps that led to the poop.~As
2357 II | two ladies occupying the stern-cabins, the windows of which are
2358 XXVIII | hand, and it was cold and stiff. The corpse could not remain
2359 XI | paralyzed with terror his limbs stiffened convulsively; his eye was
2360 VI | best part of two days; the “stiffish breeze” has gradually freshened
2361 XXXVII | drops of brandy, and the stimulant helps considerably to sustain
2362 LI | really intoxicated by the stimulants of which he had been raving,
2363 XXXIV | barrel. This addition to our stock of provisions makes us hope
2364 XLI | is known by the name of stock-fish. Scarcely had he hauled
2365 VIII | taking off my shoes and stockings I proceeded to dabble in
2366 XXXV | batteries above. In fact, as the storm-sheet came in contact with a current
2367 XLVIII | and all the sailors were storming at each other in frightful
2368 XLV | atmosphere being somewhat stormy. Heavy vapours gathered
2369 XXVIII | and lashed together with stout ropes, so that the whole
2370 XV | ship’s side was evidently stove in, admitting free passage
2371 XIX | keel; three planks had been stoved in by a sharp point of rock,
2372 XVI | where they would have to stow themselves as best they
2373 VII | acted with me in his usual straightforward manner.~
2374 XXX | it will have a tremendous strain to bear in resisting the
2375 XLI | companions, of the fire, of the stranding of the ship, of our sojourn
2376 XLIII | water-cask, or what fatality, stranger still, had caused it to
2377 VI | presented to our eyes is one of strangest interest. The sea, carpeted
2378 XXXIV | was confined to the higher strata of the atmosphere, the lightning
2379 XLIII | drowning man clutches at a straw, so our hearts bounded with
2380 XLV | transient; already a bright streak of light along the horizon
2381 VI | from whence they float like streaming pendants. For many hours
2382 XXXVIII| for several days? In the streets of a besieged city, dire
2383 XXXV | sailors did what they could to strengthen the raft with additional
2384 XXXV | air, but now, as though strengthened by the reaction, they rose
2385 LI | that remains to them in strengthening the joints. Why do they
2386 LIV | Stifling their sufferings by a strenuous effort, all returned to
2387 XXXI | and the other seamen were stretching the large royal sail on
2388 XXXI | will be doled out with the strictest limitation, and no one will
2389 XXXVII | had made fearfully rapid strides, and it was only too evident
2390 XIV | ends; several times she strikes the ground; the mizen-mast
2391 IV | well defined as a delicate strip of lace stretched upon an
2392 XXXII | covered with white spots and stripes. Here, on our low raft,
2393 LII | unclasped my knife, and, stripping my arm, with a steady thrust
2394 XXXIX | trouble,” and here he gently stroked my hand, “for your trouble
2395 V | inclined to speak out more strongly.~“All very well, Curtis,”
2396 LII | leaning against the side, strove to penetrate the obscurity.
2397 XLVI | wrest it from my grasp. We struggled with each other, but although
2398 XLIV | violent were the creature’s struggles that it required all our
2399 IV | as well as an egotist, he struts about like a peacock showing
2400 II | energetic enough ever to be stubborn; he never frowns, sets his
2401 XXXII | with morsels of dried meat stuck upon bent nails, the fish
2402 X | time.~Carrying royals and studding-sails, the “Chancellor” during
2403 LI | whisky, and, above all water! Stumbling at every step, and singing
2404 XXXVIII| are all equals now.”~Poor stupid fool! as though misery and
2405 XLVI | remained in that state of stupor I could hardly say, but
2406 XXXVIII| themselves tightly with ropes to subdue the excruciating pain that
2407 II | seen the ship’s list and subjoin a list of the passengers.
2408 LIII | livid face that was almost sublime in its calmness. I divined
2409 XXXIV | consider a storm one of the sublimest phenomena that we can behold—
2410 XXVI | again as if illumined by a submarine glimmer. I start up and
2411 XXXVII | waste of our only means of subsistence, it was given up in despair.~
2412 XLVI | upon which he had been subsisting ever since. The steward
2413 XXI | immediately followed; the two substances were mixed together, and
2414 XLIV | something that might serve as a substitute. Curtis and Dowlas were
2415 XVIII | that support the marvellous substructure.~“This is indeed a singular
2416 XXXV | peal followed peal in quick succession. Our eyes were blinded,
2417 XL | at all, were gnawed and sucked with the utmost avidity.
2418 X | the impression that their suction- tubes, running as they do
2419 XXVIII | and I doubt whether the sufferer was ever conscious of the
2420 LV | lips, I tried to die of suffocation in the water; but in spite
2421 IV | his eye, ever and again suffused with tears, indicate that
2422 XXXI | him with some serviceable suggestions, and in a couple of hours’
2423 XXXV | above. A strong odour of sulphur pervaded the air, but though
2424 XVIII | basaltic prism that crowned its summit.~Andre took a sketch-book
2425 XVIII | amidst the crags upon its summits. To a lover of natural history,
2426 XXXVII | down by his side, and then summoning up all his strength to speak,
2427 1 | briskly across the bay. Fort Sumter ere long is doubled, the
2428 XVIII | that self-indulgent lady sundry services which she thought
2429 XXXVII | tell upon us sadly, and our sunken cheeks and wasted forms
2430 LII | heads that there was any sunlight to condense the vapour;
2431 LIV | fancied that, perhaps, in super-natural vision she had viewed the
2432 XX | only been scorched very superficially. But the action of the fire
2433 XXXI | distributed under the boatswain’s superintendence every morning at ten o’clock.
2434 VII | captain could induce him to supersede the captain’s authority
2435 XLV | hands, as it might be in supplication to the relentless skies.~
2436 XXXVII | be room for hope; but our supplies diminish rapidly, and the
2437 XXVII | Letourneur, with one arm supporting his son, came and stood
2438 XXIV | mutiny being thus happily suppressed, it is to be hoped that
2439 XI | passenger by the throat; but suppressing his indignation, he proceeded
2440 IV | importance, and consequently supremely indifferent to all around
2441 XXIX | bruised and beaten with the surf that raged about the mast-heads,
2442 1 | narrow channels which the surge has hollowed out amongst
2443 XXX | composed is of a kind that must surmount the waves. But it is questionable
2444 XX | difficulties had yet to be surmounted.~The mouth of the passage
2445 XXVII | furious when they heard of the surreptitious flight, and loaded the fugitives
2446 XII | much composure we can all survey our anxious predicament.~“
2447 LIII | almost roared the carpenter, surveying his partner in peril as
2448 XXV | land, when those who had survived the deprivation and fatigue
2449 XLI | Towards eleven o’clock, a most suspicious incident occurred. The boatswain,
2450 XXXII | fish, of the sparus tribe, swarmed round the raft, and although
2451 XLVI | that were still perpetually swarming about the raft. Armed with
2452 XXVII | creaked and groaned with the swaying of the masts.~Miss Herbey
2453 XX | propitiously calm and, as it swelled gently to and fro, lifted
2454 XXXVIII| could not hold it up; it was swimming with giddiness, as though
2455 XIX | weary with the incessant swing of the handles, and I can
2456 XLVII | attached to a rope, and swinging to and fro with the motion
2457 XXXVI | had been terrific, but the swoon into which I was thrown
2458 XLIII | and like the boatswain, I swore long and loudly. A gentle
2459 VII | the phenomenon of the high sygyzian tides will take place on
2460 L | of the day, and the few syllables that our parched tongue
2461 XXXVII | attack the entire nervous system, and the constriction of
2462 XI | sailors had loosened all the tacklings of the long-boat; and were
2463 XX | is well.~The “Chancellor” tacks to stern, and glides back
2464 XXXII | and more than once their tails have struck the spars with
2465 V | sailors will tell a different tale. The hidden reefs that lie
2466 XVII | OCTOBER 30th.—Once again I talked to M. Letourneur about our
2467 XXI | Falsten is not a great talker, but what he does say is
2468 XXXIII | companions to chew the laminary tangles, which they would find contained
2469 XLII | my request, was about to tap the other barrel, when Owen
2470 VIII | thus imposed upon them. The tarpaulins on the hatches have thus
2471 VII | went below for a cup of tea, and I remained on the poop
2472 XXXI | in our possession are the tea- kettle and the old Irishman’
2473 XXX | compass, a chart, and a metal tea-kettle, everything else that was
2474 1 | copper, her decks being of teak, and the base of all her
2475 XLVIII | the infuriated men from tearing the devoted father to pieces.
2476 II | he is a man of resolute temperament, or that he possesses the
2477 XX | time be overwhelmed by a tempestuous sea I should not have hesitated
2478 XXXIII | medicine-chest we might have temporarily reduced this by quinine;
2479 XXII | extra speed should have a tendency to spring the leak afresh,
2480 IV | expression is one of caressing tenderness. It excites an involuntary
2481 VI | fantastic as the untrammelled tendrils of a vine, and as she works
2482 V | OCTOBER 7th.—This is the tenth day since we left Charleston,
2483 XXIII | of a reddish beard, which terminates in a point; his forehead
2484 LIV | we were approaching the termination of our suspense and misery;
2485 XL | dashing over the raft has terribly punished the feet and legs
2486 XXVII | which were oscillating terrifically. It was still dark, and
2487 IX | enlighten them. We don’t want terrified women and cowardly men to
2488 XLV | streaks against the sky testified that there at least the
2489 XLIV | head of the hammer. After testing the strength of his line,
2490 XLII | appearance of suffering from tetanus. His throat was contracted
2491 VIII | that their close and heavy texture is rendered quite impervious
2492 XL | in a few broken words he thanked Miss Herbey and myself for
2493 XVIII | bear.~Miss Herbey, only too thankful to escape even for an hour
2494 LVII | were all glad to unite our thanksgivings with hers. Then the whole
2495 XLVIII | Letourneur had committed the theft; in that case I knew that
2496 XLIII | it might be called, the thermometer would have registered at
2497 LIII | white hair falling over his thin livid face that was almost
2498 1 | class A I, and is now on her third voyage between Charleston
2499 LVII | inevitably have been lost.~Of the thirty-two souls—nine passengers, and
2500 XII | critical moment;” said Curtis thoughtfully; “but I shall endeavour
2501 1 | open sea; we have still to thread our way through the narrow
2502 X | and at times her top-masts threaten to snap with the pressure.
2503 XXII | deck of the new danger that threatened us; it was better that they
2504 XXII | which daily, nay hourly, threatens to swallow us into its depths.~
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