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In it#the author has gathered all the tragedy, the#mystery, and the suffering possible to the sea. All the vari-#ous forms of disaster, all the possibilities of horror, the#depths of shame and agony, are heaped upon these unhappy#voyagers. The accumulation is mathematically complete#and emotionally unforgettable. The tale has well been called#the "imperishable epic of shipwreck."#¶The idea of the book is said to have originated in the cele-#brated French painting by Gericault, "the Wreck of the#Medusa," now in the Louvre gallery. The Medusa was a#French frigate wrecked off the coast of Africa in 1816.#Some of the survivors, escaping on a raft, were rescued by#a passing ship after many days of torture. Verne, however,#seems also to have drawn upon the terrifying experiences of#the British ship Sarah Sands in 1857, her story being fresh#in the public mind at the time he wrote. The Sarah Sands#caught fire off the African coast while on a voyage to India#carrying British troops. There was gunpowder aboard li-#able to blow up at any moment. Some of it did indeed ex-#plode, tearing a huge hole in the vessel's side. A storm#added to the terror, and the waters entering the breach#caused by the explosion, combated with the fire. After ten#days of desperate struggle, the charred and sinking vessel#reached a port.#¶The extreme length of life which Verne allows his people#in their starving, thirsting condition is proven possible by#medical science and recent "fasting"' experiments. The#dramatic climax of the tale wherein the castaways find fresh#water in the ocean is based upon a fact, one of those odd#geographical facts of which the author made such frequent,#skillful and instructive use.#¶"Michael Strogoff" which, through its use as a stage#play, has become one of the best known books of all the#world, was first published in 1876. Its vivid, powerful#story has made it a favorite with every red-blooded reader.#Its two well-drawn female characters, the courageous hero-#ine, and the stern, endurant, yearning mother, show how#well Verne could depict the tenderer sex when he so willed.#Though usually the rapid movement and adventure of his#stories leave women in subordinate parts.#¶As to the picture drawn in "Michael Strogoff" of Russia#and Siberia, it is at once instructive and sympathetic.#The horrors are not blinked at, yet neither is Russian patri-#otism ignored. The loyalty of some of the Siberian exiles#to their mother country is a side of life there which is too#often ignored by writers who dwell only on the darker view.#¶The Czar, in our author's hands, becomes the hero figure#to the erection of which French "hero worship" is ever#prone. The sarcasms thrown occasionally at the British#newspaper correspondent of the story, show the changing#attitude of Verne toward England, and reflect the French#spirit of his day.#¶¶¶¶The Survivors of the Chancellor#¶by Jules Verne#¶¶¶¶CHAPTER I#THE CHANCELLOR#¶CHARLESTON, September 27, 1898. -- | 272,377 o'clock in the afternoon when we leave the Battery|-|quay; the ebb#carries us off sh | | 274,379 and top sails, the north||erly breeze drives the "Chancel |-#| 274,380 and top sails, the northerly breeze drives the |"|Chancellor"#briskly across the || 274,380 and top sails, the northerly breeze drives the "Chancellor|"|#briskly across the bay. Fort || 278,384 carried us through the harbo|ur-|mouth.#¶But as yet we have not |r | 280,386 But as yet we have not reached the open sea|;| we have still to#thread our wa || 282,389 hollowed out amongst the sand-banks. The captain takes a south|-#|west course, rounding the light || 285,392 coasted, and at length, at seven o'clock in the evening|;| we are#out free upon the wide |,| 286,392 out free upon the wide At||lantic.#¶The "Chancellor" is a |-#| 288,395 The |"|Chancellor" is a fine square-ri || 288,395 The "Chancellor|"| is a fine square-rigged three- || 292,399 except the miz||en, with all their fittings, be |z| 293,400 registered first class| A I|, and is now on her third voyag |, A 1| 295,403 the channels of Charleston harbo|u|r, it was the British flag that || 296,404 was lowered from her mast-head; but without colo|u|rs at all, no#sailor could have || 298,405 nationality,|--|for English she was, and nothin | -- | 298,405 nationality,--for Eng||lish she was, and nothing but E |-#| 299,407 her water-line upward|s| to the truck of her masts.#¶I || 302,410 board the |"|Chancellor" on her return voyag || 302,410 board the "Chancellor|"| on her return voyage to Englan || 303,412 ||At present there is no direct s |¶| 305,415 either northward|s| to New York or southwards to N || 305,415 either northwards to New York or southward|s| to New Orleans. It#is quite t || 306,416 is quite true that if I had chosen |to| start from New York I might#ha |a| 307,417 have found plenty of vessels be||longing to English, French, or# |-#| 309,419 voyage to my destina||tion; and it is equally true th |-#| 310,420 selected New Or||leans for my embarkation I coul |-#| 312,422 Naviga||tion Company, which join the Fr |-#| 312,423 Navigation Company, which join the French |T|ransatlantic line of#Colon and |t| 316,427 lighted |up|on this vessel. There was some || 317,428 |"|Chancellor" that pleased me, an || 317,428 "Chancellor|"| that pleased me, and a kind of || 318,429 took me on board, where I found the internal ar||rangements#perfectly comfortabl |-#| 321,433 steamer, and reckoning that with wind and wave in my favo|u|r there#would be little materia || 325,436 forthwith to secure my pas||sage by this route to Europe.#¶ |-#| 327,439 Have I done right or wrong? Whether I shall have rea||son to#regret my determination |-#| 334,446 |¶|CHAPTER II.#¶SEPTEMBER 28th.--J || 335,446 CHAPTER II|.|#¶SEPTEMBER 28th.--John Silas H |#CREW AND PASSENGERS| 337,449 SEPTEMBER 28|th.--|John Silas Huntly, the captain |. -- | 338,450 |"|Chancellor," has the reputation || 338,450 "Chancellor,|"| has the reputation of being an || 338,450 "Chancellor," has the reputation of being a|n| experienced#navigator of the A | most| 339,451 navigator of the Atlantic. He is a Scotchman||, a native of#Dundee, and is ab | by birth| 340,453 Dundee, and is about fifty years of age. He is of ||middle height#and slight build, |the | 345,457 insight into his charac||ter. That he is a good seaman |-#| 348,460 that he pos||sesses the amount of courage th |-#| 349,461 phy||sically or morally, capable of |-#| 350,462 emer||gency, I confess I cannot belie |-#| 350,463 emergency, I confess I cannot believe. I observe|| a certain#heaviness and deject |d| 352,465 glances, the listless motion|s| of his hands, and his slow,#un || 356,469 clenches his fist||. There is something enigmatica |s| 356,469 clenches his fist. There is some||thing enigmatical about him;#ho |-#| 357,471 however, I shall study him closely|| and do what I can to#understan |,| 363,477 position|--|I mean the mate. I have hither | -- | 363,478 position--I mean the mate. I have hitherto, however, had s|uch|#little opportunity of observin |o| 365,479 saying more about him at pres||ent.#¶Besides the captain and t |-#| 368,483 our crew consists of Walter, the lieutenant, the boat||swain, and#fourteen sailors, al |-#| 371,486 tons burden. Up to this time my sole ex||perience of their#capabilities |-#| 373,488 us skil||fully enough through the narrow |l| 374,490 and I have no reason to doubt |but |that they are well up to their# || 377,492 My list of the ship's officials is incomplete unless I men||tion#Hobart, the steward, and J |-#| 378,493 Hobart|,| the steward, and Jynxstrop, th || 378,493 Hobart, the steward|,| and Jynxstrop, the negro cook. || 378,493 Hobart, the steward, and Jynxstrop|,| the negro cook.#¶In addition t || 380,495 In addition to these, the |"|Chancellor" carries eight passe || 380,495 In addition to these, the "Chancellor|"| carries eight passengers,#incl || 380,495 In addition to these, the "Chancellor" carries eight pas||sengers,#including myself. Hit |-#| 381,496 including myself. Hitherto, the bustle of em||barkation, the#arrangement of c |-#| 388,503 in due time to an |inter|change of ideas. Two days have |ex-#| 389,505 and I have not even seen all the passengers. Probably sea-|#|sickness has prevented some of || 390,506 sickness has prevented some of them from making |their| appearance#at the common table |an| 392,508 there are two ladies occupying the stern|-|cabins, the windows of#which ar | | 392,508 there are two ladies occupying the stern-cabin|s|, the windows of#which are in t || 392,508 there are two ladies occupying the stern-cabins, the win||dows of#which are in the aft-bo |-#| 395,511 I have seen the ship's list|| and subjoin a list of the pass |,| 395,511 I have seen the ship's list and subjoin a list of the pas||sengers.#They are as follow:-- |-#| 396,512 They are as follow|:--| Mr. and Mrs. Kear, Americans, |s:#¶| 397,515 ||Miss Herbey, a young English la |¶ | 397,518 Miss Herbey, a young English lady, companion to Mrs. Kear. ||M.#Letourneur and his son Andre |¶ | 398,520 Letourneur and his son Andre, Frenchmen, of Havre. ||William#Falsten, a Manchester e |¶ | 399,522 Falsten, a Manchester engineer. ||John Ruby, a Cardiff merchant;# |¶ | 400,523 and myself, J. R. Kazal||lon, of London.#¶¶¶CHAPTER III. |-#| 403,527 |¶|CHAPTER III.#¶SEPTEMBER 29th.-- || 404,527 CHAPTER III|.|#¶SEPTEMBER 29th.--Captain Hunt |#BILL OF LADING| 406,530 SEPTEMBER 29|th.--|Captain Huntly's bill of lading |. -- | 407,531 the document that describes the |"|Chancellor's" cargo and the#con || 407,531 the document that describes the "Chancellor's|"| cargo and the#conditions of tr || 408,533 conditions of transport, is couched in the following terms:|--#¶"BRONSFIELD AND CO., AGENTS, CHARLESTON.#¶"|I, John Silas Huntly, of Dundee |#¶Bronsfield and Co., Agents, Charleston:#¶ | 413,538 |'|Chancellor,' of about 900 tons || 413,538 'Chancellor,|'| of about 900 tons burden, now || 414,539 purpose, by the blessing of God, at the earli||est convenient#season, and by t |-#| 418,543 Co., Commission Agents, Charles||ton, and have placed the same#u |-#| 420,546 of cotton, of the estimated value of 26,000|l|., all in good#condition, marke | L| 425,551 order, or to their representative||, who shall on due delivery of# |s| 426,552 the said freight pay me the sum of 2|000l|. inclusive, according#to the c |,000 L| 426,552 the said freight pay me the sum of 2000l. inclu||sive, according#to the charter- |-#| 427,553 to the charter-party|| and damages in addition, accor |,| 427,553 to the charter-party and damages in addi||tion, according to the#usages a |-#| 430,556 |"|And for the fulfilment of the a || 430,556 "And for the fulfil||ment of the above covenant, I h |l| 433,559 have signed three agreements|,| all of the same purport; on th || 433,560 have signed three agreements, all of the same purport|;| on the#condition that when the |,| 437,564 |"|Given at Charleston, September | | 437,564 "Given at Charleston, September 13th, 1869|,|# "J |.#¶| 438,566 |"|J. S. HUNTLY."#¶From the forego || 438,566 "J. S. HUNTLY.|"|#¶From the foregoing document i || 441,569 |"|Chancellor" is conveying 1700 b || 441,569 "Chancellor|"| is conveying 1700 bales of cot || 441,569 "Chancellor" is conveying 1||700 bales of cotton to Liverpoo |,| 441,569 "Chancellor" is conveying 1700 bales of cotton to Liver||pool; that#the shippers are Bro |-#| 443,571 are Laird Brothers|,| of Liverpool. The ship was co || 445,574 the exception of a very limited space reserved for passenger|s'|#luggage, is closely packed wit |'s| 446,575 luggage, is closely packed with the bales|,| The lading was# |.| 454,583 |¶|CHAPTER IV.#¶SEPTEMBER 30th to || 455,583 CHAPTER IV|.|#¶SEPTEMBER 30th to OCTOBER 6th |#SOMETHING ABOUT MY FELLOW PASSENGERS| 457,586 SEPTEMBER 30|th| to OCTOBER 6th.--The "Chancell || 457,586 SEPTEMBER 30th to O|CTOBER 6th.--The "|Chancellor" is a rapid#sailer, |ctober 6. -- The | 457,586 SEPTEMBER 30th to OCTOBER 6th.--The "Chancellor|"| is a rapid#sailer, and more th || 459,588 dimensions. She scuds along merrily in the freshen||ing breeze,#leaving in her wake |-#| 468,597 rare; we are beginning to know some||thing about each other, and#our |-#| 475,604 he really is: his drooping head, his de||jected manner, and his#eye, eve |-#| 478,608 rarely even smiles, and then only on his son|:| his countenance# |;| 480,609 while his general ex||pression is one of caressing te |-#| 481,610 excites an invol||untary commiseration to learn t |-#| 482,611 is con||suming himself by exaggerated r |-#| 490,620 with that of his son; his devotion is unceas||ing; every thought,#every glanc |-#| 492,622 trifling wish, watches his slightest move||ment, and his arm is#ever ready |-#| 498,628 conversation, I said|,--|#¶"You have a good son, M. Leto |:| 503,633 "Yes, Mr. Kazallon," replied M. Letourneur, brighten||ing up into a#smile, "his affli |-#| 507,637 "He is full of reverence and love for you, sir," I re||marked.#¶"Dear boy!" muttered |-#| 515,646 Andre is entitled to the very greatest com||miseration no one can#deny; but |-#| 519,650 there is nothing|,| that troubles him so much as t || 523,654 thought is how to divert him. I have discovered|,| that in spite# || 523,654 thought is how to divert him. I have discovered, that|| in spite#of his physical weakn |,| 524,655 of his physical weakness, he delights in travel|l|ing; so for the#last few years || 526,657 went all over Europe, and are now re||turning from visiting the#princ |-#| 528,659 go to college, but in||structed him entirely myself, a |-#| 536,668 "But," continued M. Letourneur, taking my hand, "al||though,#perhaps, HE may forget, |-#| 543,675 his appearance. M. Letourneur has||tened toward him and assisted#h |-#| 549,682 the various points of the |"|Chancellor," the probable lengt || 549,682 the various points of the "Chancellor,|"| the probable length of#the pas || 552,685 very much coincide|d| with my own, and that, like me |s| 553,686 impressed with the man's un||decided manner and sluggish#app |-#| 554,688 appearance. Like me, too, he has formed a very favo|u|rable# || 559,693 Whil|st| we were still talking of him, |e| 562,697 fearless glance and slightly contracted brow all betoken|ed| a man# || 565,699 fellow, too, and is al||ways ready to assist and amuse |-#| 566,700 Letourneur, who evi||dently enjoys his company. Aft |-#| 574,709 He is a man of about fifty, a most uninter||esting companion, being#overwhe |-#| 583,719 the luxuries of a |T|ransatlantic steamer, I am alto |t| 590,726 giving her orders to her com||panion, Miss Herbey, a young En |-#| 594,730 eyes deep blue, whil|st| her pleasing countenance is al |e| 597,734 mouth would be charming if she ever smiled, but|| exposed as she is# |,| 599,736 lips rarely relax from their ordinary grave expression. Yet||#humiliating as her position mu |,| 600,736 humiliating as her posi||tion must be, she never utters |-#| 601,738 open complaint, but quietly and gracefully performs her duties||#accepting without a murmur the |,| 610,747 Messrs. Cail. He is forty-||five years of age, with all his |#| 621,759 and selling, and as he has gener||ally contrived to do business a |-#| 623,762 going to do with the money, |b|e does not seem able to say: h |h| 628,767 dignite et tout|-|son merite;" but to Mr. Ruby th | | 632,771 |¶|CHAPTER V.#¶OCTOBER 7th.--This || 633,771 CHAPTER V|.|#¶OCTOBER 7th.--This is the ten |#AN UNUSUAL ROUTE| 635,774 OCTOBER 7|th.--|This is the tenth day since we |. -- | 635,774 OCTOBER 7th.--This is the tenth day since we left Charles||ton, and#I should think our pro |-#| 638,778 informed me that we could not be far off |Cape Hatteras in |the#Bermudas; the ship's bearin || 639,778 Bermudas; the ship's bearings, he said|| were lat. 32deg. 20min. N.#and |,| 639,779 Bermudas; the ship's bearings, he said were lat. 32||deg. 20min. N.#and long. 64deg. | | 639,779 Bermudas; the ship's bearings, he said were lat. 32deg. 20|min.| N.#and long. 64deg. 50min. W., |'| 640,779 and long. 64||deg. 50min. W., so that he had | | 640,779 and long. 64deg. 50|min. W.,| so that he had every reason to |' W.| 644,784 Bermudas? I should have thought that a vessel sail||ing from#Charleston to Liverpoo |-#| 645,785 Charleston to Liverpool, would have kept north|wards|, and have#followed the track o |-#ward| 648,788 "Yes, indeed|;| sir," replied Curtis, "that is |,| 653,794 "That's not for me to say, sir; he ordered us eastward|s|, and#eastwards we go."# || 654,795 eastward|s| we go."# || 659,800 unusual route they were taking, but that the cap||tain had said#that he was quite |-#| 672,816 Struck by his manner, I ventured to add, "Do you mind, |Mr. |Curtis# || 672,816 Struck by his manner, I ventured to add, "Do you mind, Mr. Curtis||#giving me your honest opinion |,| 679,822 interrogation on my part|, but it only set me thinking the more|.#¶Curtis was not mistaken. At || 681,825 Curtis was not mistaken. At about three o'clock the look||out man# |-| 683,827 seemed as if it might be a line of smoke in the north|-|east# || 688,832 "There," said Andre Letourneur to me, as we stood gaz||ing at the#distant land, "there |-#| 689,833 distant land, "there lies the enchanted |A|rchipelago, sung by your# |a| 689,833 distant land, "there lies the enchanted Archipel||ago, sung by your#poet Moore. |-#| 696,841 seventeenth century, although lat||erly they have fallen into# |t| 706,851 they|,| are visited by the most fright || 707,853 fag-end of the storms that rage over the Antilles; and the fag-|#|end of a storm is like the tail || 710,856 listening much to your poets|,--|your Moores, and your Wallers." | -- | 712,858 "No|,| doubt you are right, Mr. Curti || 712,858 "No, doubt you are right, Mr. Curtis," said Andre, smil||ing, "but#poets are like prover |-#| 715,861 praises of the Bermudas, it has been sup||posed that Shakspeare was#depic |-#| 719,865 |The whole vicinity of these islands is beyond a question#extremely perilous to mariners. Situated between the Antilles#and Nova Scotia, the Bermudas have ever since their discovery#belonged to the English, who have mainly used them for a military#station. But this little archipelago, comprising some hundred#and fifty different isles and islets, is destined to increase,#and that, perhaps, on a larger scale than has yet been#anticipated. Beneath the waves there are madrepores, in infinity#of number, silently but ceaselessly pursuing their labours; and#with time, that fundamental element in nature's workings, who#shall tell whether these may not gradually build up island after#island, which shall unite and form another continent?#¶|I may mention that there was no || 732,865 I may mention that there was not another of our fellow-||passengers# |#| 740,873 |¶|CHAPTER VI.#¶OCTOBER 8th to OCT || 741,873 CHAPTER VI|.|#¶OCTOBER 8th to OCTOBER 13th.- |#THE SARGASSO SEA| 743,876 OCTOBER 8|th| to OCTOBER 13th.--The wind is || 743,876 OCTOBER 8th to O|CTOBER 13th.--|The wind is blowing hard from t |ctober 13. -- | 744,877 north|-east;| and the "Chancellor" under low |east,| 744,877 north-east; and the |"|Chancellor" under low-reefed to || 744,877 north-east; and the "Chancellor|"| under low-reefed top-sail and# |,| 745,878 fore-sail, and labo|u|ring against a heavy sea, has b || 749,883 driving rain, fine as dust, which penetrates to |my| very skin. We#have been drive |the| 752,885 gale|;"| the top-gallants have been low |";| 752,885 gale;" the top-||gallants have been lowered, and |#| 754,887 Al||though the "Chancellor" has man |-#| 754,888 Although the |"|Chancellor" has many good point || 754,888 Although the "Chancellor|"| has many good points, her drif || 755,889 considerable, and we have been carried far to the south|| we can#only guess at our preci |;| 756,890 only guess at our precise position, as the cloudy at||mosphere#entirely precludes us |-#| 757,891 entirely precludes us from taking the sun's alti||tude.#¶All along throughout thi |-#| 759,894 All along|| throughout this period, my fel |,| 760,896 totally ignorant of the extraordinary course that we are taking||#England lies to the NORTH-EAST |.| 761,896 England lies to the |NORTH-EAST|, yet we are sailing directly#S |northeast| 762,897 |SOUTH-EAST|, and Robert Curtis owns that h |southeast| 762,897 SOUTH-EAST, and Robert Curtis owns that he is quite be||wildered;#he cannot comprehend |-#| 763,899 he cannot comprehend why the captain, ever since this north|-#|easterly gale has been blowing, || 765,901 ship to drive to the south, instead of tacking to the north|-|west# || 768,903 I was alone with ||Curtis to-day upon the poop, an |Robert | 769,904 saying to him|| "Curtis, is your captain mad?" |,| 774,910 "Well|| to say the truth," I answered, |,| 774,910 "Well to say the truth," I answered|,| "I can hardly tell; but I# |.| 786,922 "Think; why|| they think just the same as I |,| 798,935 my passage on board the |"|Chancellor." The weather has b || 798,935 my passage on board the "Chancellor.|"| The weather has become#worse || 806,944 night of the 11th we fairly entered upon that por||tion of the#Atlantic which is k |-#| 807,945 Atlantic which is known as the Sargasso|s| Sea. An extensive tract# || 808,946 of water is this, |e|nclosed by the warm current of |i| 811,950 the progress of Columbus's vessel|s| on his first voyage across the || 811,950 the progress of Columbus's vessels on his first voyage| across the#ocean|.#¶Each morning at daybreak the || 823,962 her way as a plo|ugh|. Long strips of seaweed caugh |w| 825,964 in festoons of verdure; whil|st| others, varying from two to th |e| 826,966 hundred feet in length, twine themselves up to the very mast-|#heads|, from whence they float like s |head| 827,967 heads, from whence they float like streaming pen|d|ants. For many#hours now, the |n| 828,967 hours now, the |"|Chancellor" has been contending || 828,967 hours now, the "Chancellor|"| has been contending with this# || 831,970 fantastic as the untrammel|l|ed tendrils of a vine, and as s || 831,970 fantastic as the untrammelled ten||drils of a vine, and as she#wor |-#| 837,977 |¶|CHAPTER VII.#¶OCTOBER 14th.--At || 838,977 CHAPTER VII|.|#¶OCTOBER 14th.--At last we are |#VOICES IN THE NIGHT| 840,980 OCTOBER 14|th.--|At last we are free from the se |. -- | 840,980 OCTOBER 14th.--At last we are free from the sea of vegeta||tion,#the boisterous gale has m |-#| 844,984 |"|Chancellor."# || 844,984 "Chancellor.|"|#¶Under conditions so favourabl || 846,986 Under conditions so favo|u|rable, we have been able to tak || 847,987 ship's bearings: our latitude, we find, is 21||deg. 33min. N., our# | | 847,987 ship's bearings: our latitude, we find, is 21deg. 33|min.| N., our# |'| 848,988 longitude| 50|deg. 17min. W.# |, 50 | 848,988 longitude 50deg. 17|min.| W.#¶Incomprehensible altogethe |'| 852,992 from which|,| we started, and yet still we a || 852,992 from which, we started, and yet still we are per||sistently#following a south-eas |-#| 853,993 following a south|-|easterly course! I cannot brin || 859,999 Yet it is un||accountable.#¶I can get nothing |-#| 861,1002 I can get nothing out of Curtis; he listens coldly when||ever I#allude to the subject, a |-#| 864,1006 captain could induce him to supersede the captain's authority|| and#that the imminent peril of |,| 876,1017 to star||board convinced me that this wa |-#| 877,1018 com||motion, I was curious to know t |-#| 877,1019 commotion|,| I was curious to know the trut |.| 881,1023 been the meaning of the man|oeuvre|, I cannot tell; it did not see |euver| 882,1024 to |have |resulted in any improvement in || 882,1024 to have result|ed| in any improvement in the ship || 887,1030 as usual. The |"|Chancellor" was running on the || 887,1030 as usual. The "Chancellor|"| was running on the larboard ta || 887,1030 as usual. The "Chancellor" was run||ning on the larboard tack, and# |-#| 892,1036 Shortly afterward|s| M. Letourneur and Andre came a || 892,1036 Shortly afterwards M. Letourneur and Andre came |a|n deck. The#young man enjoyed |o| 899,1043 "I am glad, my boy," said |his| father, that you have slept so |the| 899,1043 "I am glad, my boy," said his father, ||that you have slept so# |"| 901,1045 must have|;| been about three o'clock this || 902,1047 to me as though they were shouting. I thought I heard them say|,|#'Here, quick, look to the hatc |;| 909,1054 covered with heavy tarpauling. Wondering|;| in my own mind what#could be t || 910,1055 could be the reason for these ex||tra precautions I did not say#a |-#| 918,1064 10|.57 am|. On consulting my almanac, I |:57 A. M| 918,1064 10.57 am. On consulting my al||manac, I find that there will b |-#| 920,1066 affect us here in mid|| ocean, the phenomenon of the h |-| 926,1072 Curtis appeared, that he might relieve Lieu||tenant Walter of the#watch. I |-#| 927,1073 watch. I advanced to meet him, but be||fore he even wished me good#mor |-#| 934,1081 "I have seen nothing of him," answered the lieutenant|| "is there#anything fresh up?"# |;| 937,1084 "Nothing|,| whatever," was the curt reply. || 945,1092 The boatswain immediately appeared, and another con||versation was#carried on in whi |-#| 952,1100 talk |to| him upon ordinary topics, hopi |with| 954,1102 however, that he did not allude to it|;| I asked him point blank.#¶"Wha |,| 954,1103 however, that he did not allude to it; I asked him point blank|.|#¶"What was the matter in the n |:| 960,1109 "What was it?" I repeated. "M. Letourneur and my||self were both#of us disturbed |-#| 968,1118 I said no more; but I can||not resist the impression that | | 969,1119 Curtis has not acted with me in his usual straight||forward manner.#¶¶¶CHAPTER VIII |-#| 972,1123 |¶|CHAPTER VIII.# || 973,1123 CHAPTER VIII|.|#¶OCTOBER 15th to OCTOBER 18th. |#FIRE ON BOARD| 975,1126 OCTOBER 15|th| to OCTOBER 18th.--The wind is || 975,1126 OCTOBER 15th to O|CTOBER 18th.--|The wind is still in the north- |ctober 18. -- | 975,1127 OCTOBER 15th to OCTOBER 18th.--The wind is still in the north|-#|east. There is no change in th || 976,1127 east. There is no change in the |"|Chancellor's" course, and to an || 976,1127 east. There is no change in the "Chancellor's|"| course, and to an# || 978,1129 have an uneasy consciousness that some||thing is not quite right.#Why s |-#| 980,1131 mutinous crew was im||prisoned between decks? I cann |-#| 980,1132 mutinous crew was imprisoned between decks? I can||not help#thinking too that ther | | 987,1139 On the 15th, while I was walking on the forecastle, I over||heard#one of the sailors, a man |-#| 988,1140 one of the sailors, a man named Owen|| say to his mates,--# |,| 988,1141 one of the sailors, a man named Owen say to his mates|,--|#¶"Now I just give you all warn |:| 991,1144 until the last minute. Every| |one for himself, say I."# || 998,1152 Something at that moment occurred to interrupt the con||versation,#and I heard no more. |-#| 1002,1157 sailors are most rebelliously disposed, and require|| to be ruled# |d| 1005,1159 Yesterday and to-day I have observed Curtis remonstrat||ing#somewhat vehemently with Ca |-#| 1007,1161 result arising from their interviews; the |Cap|tain apparently#being bent upon |cap-#| 1011,1165 Captain Huntly is undoubtedly labo|u|ring under strong nervous# || 1013,1167 silent he has become at meal-times; for al||though Curtis#continually endea |-#| 1014,1168 continually endeavo|u|rs to start some subject of gen || 1017,1171 and soon drops. The pas||sengers too are now, with good |-#| 1024,1179 the deck to be watered again and again, and al||though as a general#rule this i |-#| 1028,1183 hatches have thus been kept con||tinually wet, so that their clo |-#| 1029,1185 and heavy texture is rendered quite impervious to the air|,| The#"Chancellor's" pumps affor |.| 1030,1185 |"|Chancellor's" pumps afford a co || 1030,1185 "Chancellor's|"| pumps afford a copious supply || 1032,1188 craft belonging to an aristocratic yacht|-|club was ever subject to# | | 1036,1191 neces||sity, and recalled to my recoll |-#| 1037,1194 of the 13th, I had found the atmosphere below deck so stifling||#that in spite of the heavy swe |,| 1043,1199 risen, and the air was fresh and cool, in strange con||trast to the#heat which below t |-#| 1044,1200 heat which below the poop had been quite op||pressive. The sailors#as usual |-#| 1045,1201 as usual were washing the deck|,| A great sheet of water, suppli |.| 1046,1202 continuously by the pumps|| was rolling in tiny wavelets, |,| 1047,1204 escaping now to starboard, now to larboard through the scupper-|#|holes. After watching the men || 1048,1204 holes. After watch||ing the men for a while as they |-#| 1050,1207 taking off my shoes and stockings|| I proceeded to dabble in the# |,| 1054,1211 Curtis heard my exclamation of surprise, and be||fore I could put#my thoughts in |-#| 1055,1212 my thoughts into words, said|,--|#¶"Yes! there is fire on board |:| 1060,1217 |¶|CHAPTER IX.#¶OCTOBER 19th.--Eve || 1061,1217 CHAPTER IX|.|#¶OCTOBER 19th.--Eveything, the |#CURTIS EXPLAINS THE SITUATION| 1063,1220 OCTOBER 19|th.--Eve|ything, then, is clear. The un |. -- Ever| 1063,1220 OCTOBER 19th.--Eveything, then, is clear. The uneas||iness of the#crew, their freque |-#| 1064,1221 crew, their frequent conferences, Owen's mys||terious words, the#constant sco |-#| 1070,1227 shivered with a thrill of horror; a calamity the most ter||rible#that can befall a voyager |-#| 1072,1229 seconds before I could recover sufficient com||posure to inquire#when the fire |-#| 1080,1238 disturbance upon deck. The men on watch no||ticed a slight smoke#issuing fr |-#| 1083,1242 on fire, and what was worse,||that there was no possibility o | | 1084,1243 getting at the seat of the combustion. What could we do? Why|;|#we took the only precaution th |,| 1087,1246 breath of air from penetrating into the hold|,| For some time I# |.| 1095,1253 |¶|I listened in silence, I was no || 1096,1254 I listened in silence|,| I was now fully aroused to the |.| 1103,1262 "It probably arose," he answered, "from the sponta||neous#combustion of the cotton. |-#| 1113,1272 "Nothing|;| Mr. Kazallon," he said. "As I |,| 1113,1272 "Nothing; Mr. Kazallon," he said. "As I told you be||fore, we have#adopted the only |-#| 1115,1274 fire. At one time I thought of knock||ing a hole in the ship's#timber |-#| 1116,1275 timbers just on her water||line, and letting in just as mu |-| 1117,1276 as the pumps could afterward|s| get rid of again; but we found || 1122,1282 poured down through the holes; but that again seemed |all |of no# || 1125,1285 perhaps the conflagration|| deprived of oxygen may smoulde |,| 1125,1285 perhaps the conflagration deprived of oxygen|| may smoulder itself# |,| 1131,1291 aperture which we have not bee|p| able to discover, by which,# |n| 1134,1294 "Have you ever heard of a vessel surviving such cir||cumstances?"#I asked.#¶"Yes, Mr |-#| 1138,1298 thing for ships laden with cotton to arrive at Liver||pool or Havre#with a portion of |-#| 1142,1302 freight has been compelled to un||load with the utmost expedition |-#| 1144,1304 under control through||out the voyage; with us, it is |-#| 1155,1316 the south|-|west; we are now straight befor || 1155,1316 the south-west; we are now straight be||fore the wind, and#consequently |-#| 1156,1317 consequently we are sailing toward|s| the coast."#¶"I need hardly as || 1172,1335 |¶|CHAPTER X.#¶OCTOBER 20th AND 21 || 1173,1335 CHAPTER X|.|#¶OCTOBER 20th AND 21st.--The " |#PICRATE OF POTASH ON BOARD| 1175,1338 OCTOBER 20|th AND 21st.--The "|Chancellor" is now crowded with | and 21. -- The | 1175,1338 OCTOBER 20th AND 21st.--The "Chancellor|"| is now crowded with all#the ca || 1176,1339 the canvas she can carry, and at times her top|-|masts threaten to#snap with the || 1179,1343 compromising the safety of the vessel, he contrives|| by tacking to# |,| 1182,1346 All day long on the 20th|,| the passengers were assembled || 1186,1351 heat of the deck did not reveal itself to their well-shod feet||#and the constant scouring of t |,| 1190,1355 should be distinguished by such extraordinary cleanliness|,| but as# |;| 1195,1359 re||flect upon the eight-and-twenty |-#| 1199,1364 The important consultation between captain, mate, lieuten|ant,| and#boatswain has taken place. |-#ant| 1201,1366 He says that Huntly, the captain, is com||pletely demoralized; he#has los |-#| 1205,1370 violence|| The temperature of the crew's |.| 1206,1372 become almost unbearable. One solitary hope remain|ed|; it is that# |s| 1209,1375 five or six hundred miles away, if the wind remains north|-|east# || 1212,1378 Carrying royals and studding-sails, the |"|Chancellor" during the# || 1212,1378 Carrying royals and studding-sails, the "Chancellor|"| during the# || 1214,1380 Letourneur is the only one of all the passengers who has re||marked#the change of tack; Curt |-#| 1215,1381 the change of tack; Curtis|| however, has set all speculati |,| 1216,1382 his part |to| rest by telling him that he wa |at| 1218,1384 favo|u|rable current.# || 1223,1389 excluding the air|,| the fire may be stifled before || 1223,1389 excluding the air, the fire may be stifled be||fore it ignites the#general car |-#| 1226,1393 orifices of the pumps, under the impression that their suction-|#|tubes, running as they do to th || 1232,1400 The day would have passed without any incident worth recording|| if#I had not chanced to overhe |,| 1234,1401 demonstrated that our situation|| hitherto precarious enough, ha |,| 1238,1405 Falsten, the engineer, and Ruby, the merchant|| whom I had observed# |,| 1239,1406 to be often in company, were engaged in conversa||tion almost close#to me. What |-#| 1241,1408 but my attention was directed to|wards| them by some very emphatic#ges |-#ward| 1248,1416 "Pooh! pooh!" replied Ruby|;| "it's all right; it is not the |,| 1255,1423 no fears on that score, Mr|,| Falsten."# |.| 1257,1425 "But why," asked Falsten, "did you not inform the cap||tain?"#¶"Just because if I had |-#| 1262,1431 The wind dropped for a few seconds; and for a brief in||terval I#could not catch what p |-#| 1264,1433 continued to remonstrate, whil|st| Ruby answered by shrugging his |e| 1265,1434 shoulders. At length I heard Falsten say|,--|#¶"Well, at any rate the captai |.| 1267,1436 "Well, at any rate|| the captain must be informed o |,| 1268,1437 package shall be thrown overboard. I don't want|,| to be blown#up."#¶I started. || 1271,1440 I started. To what could the engineer be alluding? Evi||dently he#had not the remotest |-#| 1274,1443 me to my feet|?| and with an involuntary impul |,| 1277,1446 "Is there picrate of potash on board?" I almost sh||ieked.# |r| 1286,1455 |¶|CHAPTER XI.#¶What my feelings w || 1287,1455 CHAPTER XI|.#¶What| my feelings were I cannot desc |#THE PASSENGERS DISCOVER THEIR DANGER#¶WHAT| 1295,1464 made him ac||quainted with all the particula |-#| 1295,1465 made him acquainted with all the particulars said,|--#¶|"Not a word of this must be men | | 1297,1466 "Not a word of this must be mentioned to any| |one else, Mr.# || 1298,1466 Kazallon|, w|here is Ruby now?"# |. W| 1298,1467 Kazallon, where is Ruby|| now?"# |,| 1313,1482 his hands tightly together behind his back to pre||vent himself#from seizing the u |-#| 1318,1488 Anglo-Saxon incautiousness he had brought on board|| with the rest# |,| 1319,1488 of his baggage, a case con||taining no less than thirty pou |-#| 1325,1494 per||mission to bring the package on |-#| 1327,1497 "Any| |way," he said, with a shrug of || 1332,1502 I was beside myself with fury|,| and not being endowed with# |;| 1333,1503 Curtis's reticence and self-control, before he could in||terfere to#stop me, I cried out |-#| 1334,1504 stop me, I cried out|,--|#¶"You fool! don't you know th |:| 1339,1509 unuttered|,| But it was too late: their ef |.| 1339,1509 unuttered, But it was too late|:| their effect upon Ruby was# | --| 1340,1510 electrical. He was paralyzed with terror|| his limbs stiffened#convulsive |;| 1342,1513 speechless. All of a sudden he threw up his arms|| and, as though# |,| 1344,1515 poop, and paced frantic||ly up and down the deck, gestic |al| 1345,1515 like a mad||man, and shouting,--#¶"Fire on |-#| 1345,1516 like a madman, and shouting|,--|#¶"Fire on board! Fire! Fire! |:| 1354,1526 the tender mercies of Miss Herbey. Curtis endeavo|u|red to silence# || 1357,1529 The father's first thought was for Andre|| but the young man# |,| 1358,1529 preserved an ad||mirable composure, and begged h |-#| 1360,1532 had loosened all the tacklings of the long-boat|;| and were# |,| 1361,1532 pre||paring to launch it, when Curti |-#| 1362,1533 peremp||torily bidding them to desist; |-#| 1365,1537 word that when the right moment should ar||rive he would allow them#all to |-#| 1366,1538 all to leave the ship; but that mo||ment, he said, had not yet#come |-#| 1369,1541 At the sound of a voice which they had learned to hono|u|r and#respect, the crew paused || 1375,1547 possessed, I feel cer||tain that if the true state of |-#| 1376,1548 been known, noth||ing on earth would have prevent |-#| 1381,1554 As soon as order was restored, the mate and|,| I joined Falsten on# || 1384,1557 solving some hard mechanical prob||lem. He promised, at my#reques |-#| 1387,1560 the re||sponsibility of informing Capta |-#| 1393,1567 "Fire! fire!" Accordingly Curtis gave or||ders to some of his men#to seiz |-#| 1399,1573 |¶|CHAPTER XII.#¶OCTOBER 22nd.--Cu || 1400,1573 CHAPTER XII|.|#¶OCTOBER 22nd.--Curtis has tol |#CURTIS BECOMES CAPTAIN| 1402,1576 OCTOBER 22|nd.--|Curtis has told the captain eve |. -- | 1406,1581 passing his hand across his forehead as though to|,| banish some# || 1411,1586 with how much composure we can all survey our anx||ious#predicament.# |-#| 1414,1589 "There is no doubt||" said Curtis, "that we must ab |,| 1415,1590 of arresting the fire; the heat toward|s| the bow has already# || 1419,1595 of course get quit of the ship as quietly as we can; if|| on the# |,| 1420,1595 other hand|,| the weather should be adverse, || 1422,1598 flames to the very last; perhaps, after all, we shall fare ||better# |far | 1425,1601 Falsten and I agreed with what he said, |but| I pointed out to him# |and| 1427,1603 pounds of |combustibl|e matter in the hold.# |explosiv| 1429,1605 "No||" he gravely replied, "I have n |,| 1430,1606 circumstance of which I do not trust myself to think|| I dare not#run the risk of adm |.| 1433,1609 explode. No; it is a matter that I can||not take at all into my#reckoni |-#| 1434,1610 reckoning|,| it must remain in higher hands |;| 1439,1617 After |a |considerable pause, Falsten, as || 1439,1617 After a considerable pause, ||Falsten, as calmly as though he |Mr. | 1440,1618 delivering some philosophic dogma, ||observed,--#¶"The explosion, if |quietly#| 1440,1619 delivering some philosophic dogma, observed|,--|#¶"The explosion, if I may use |:| 1448,1627 "Certainly it is," replied the engineer. "Under|-|ordinary# | | 1449,1628 circumstances, picrate of potash although not MORE inflam||mable#than common powder, yet p |-#| 1450,1629 than common powder, yet possesses the |same| degree of# |SAME| 1459,1638 Then quickly recovering himself, he continued|,| "But I am#forgetting myself; y |:| 1465,1645 "It is just this," he answered deliberately|| "we are over a mine,# |,| 1467,1648 that train may be, 'tis not for me to say." ||And with these words#he left me |¶| 1475,1656 should have the fire immediately extinguished|| and intimating that# |,| 1475,1656 should have the fire immediately extinguished and intimat||ing that#he held him responsibl |-#| 1483,1665 diligence with which she fulfil||s her offices of duty, commands |l| 1484,1665 highest ad||miration.#¶OCTOBER 23rd.--This |-#| 1486,1668 OCTOBER 23|rd.--|This morning, Captain Huntly se |. -- | 1487,1669 his cabin, and the mate has since made me ac||quainted with what#passed betwe |-#| 1496,1680 bewildered; I can||not recollect anything. Are we | | 1497,1682 Liverpool? Ah! yes! of course. And have we kept a north|-#|easterly direction since we lef || 1500,1685 "No, sir, according to your orders we have been sailing south|-#|east, and here we are in the tr || 1505,1689 "The |'|Chancellor,' sir."# || 1505,1689 "The 'Chancellor,|'| sir."# || 1507,1691 "Yes, yes, the |'|Chancellor,' so it is. Well, C || 1507,1691 "Yes, yes, the 'Chancellor,|'| so it is. Well, Curtis, I rea || 1514,1698 in||terrupted him by saying,--#¶"We |-#| 1514,1699 interrupted him by saying|,--|#¶"Well, well; we shall see by- |:| 1519,1704 on board. Under present circum||stances, I can do nothing. My# |-#| 1520,1705 brain is all |o|n a whirl, you cannot tell what |i| 1520,1706 brain is all on a whirl, you can||not tell what I am suffering;"# | | 1525,1710 seeing what his condition too truly was, I ac||quiesced in all that#he require |-#| 1529,1714 After hearing these particulars, I could not help remark||ing how#fortunate it was that t |-#| 1531,1716 for although he might not be actually in||sane, it was very evident#that |-#| 1534,1720 "I succeed|| him at a very critical moment; |ed| 1534,1720 "I succeed him at a very critical moment|;|" said Curtis# |,| 1535,1721 thoughtfully; "but I shall endeavo|u|r to do my duty."# || 1537,1723 A short time afterward|s| he sent for the boatswain, and || 1537,1723 A short time afterwards he sent for |the| boatswain, and ordered# |his| 1537,1723 A short time afterwards he sent for the boatswain|,| and ordered# || 1537,1723 A short time afterwards he sent for the boatswain, and or||dered#him to assemble the crew |-#| 1543,1729 account of the dangerous situation in which cir||cumstances have#placed us, and |-#| 1548,1734 Thus quietly and simply ||the change was effected, and we |was | 1548,1734 Thus quietly and simply the change |was |effected, and we have the# || 1549,1735 satisfaction of knowing that the |"|Chancellor" is now under the# || 1549,1735 satisfaction of knowing that the "Chancellor|"| is now under the# || 1552,1738 Andre, Mr. Falsten, and myself im||mediately offered him our best# |-#| 1556,1742 The ship still holds her course south|-west| and Curtis crowds on# |west,| 1561,1747 |¶|CHAPTER XIII.#¶OCTOBER 24th to || 1562,1747 CHAPTER XIII|.|#¶OCTOBER 24th to 29th.--For th |#BETWEEN FIRE AND WATER| 1564,1750 OCTOBER 24|th| to 29th.--For the last five da || 1564,1750 OCTOBER 24th to 29|th.--|For the last five days the sea |. -- | 1565,1751 very heavy, and although the |"|Chancellor" sails with wind and || 1565,1751 very heavy, and although the "Chancellor|"| sails with wind and#wave in he || 1566,1752 wave in her favo|u|r, yet her progress is consider || 1566,1752 wave in her favour, yet her progress is considerably im||peded.#Here on board this verit |-#| 1567,1753 Here on board this veritable fire||ship I cannot help contemplatin |-| 1568,1754 with a longing eye this vast ocean that sur||rounds us. The water#supply sh |-#| 1578,1764 very top of the masts. No; we must have cour||age and patience; we#must wait. |-#| 1583,1769 hitherto suspected. The heat gradually drove the pas||sengers#nearly all, on deck, an |-#| 1584,1770 nearly all|,| on deck, and the two stern cab || 1594,1781 always calm and spoke quite rationally |up|on any subject except# || 1595,1782 his own profession; but in conne|x|ion with that he prated away th |ct| 1597,1784 my offers of attention, and pertina||ciously refused to leave his#ca |-#| 1601,1788 panel|l|ings that partition off the qua || 1602,1789 Curtis ordered the partition to be enveloped in wet tar||paulin,#but the fumes penetrate |-#| 1604,1791 neighbo|u|rhood of the ship's bows with a || 1604,1791 neighbourhood of the ship's bows with a reeking vapo|u|r that was#positively stifling. || 1612,1799 the main-||mast and the mizen are of iron; |#| 1612,1800 the main-mast and the miz||en are of iron; otherwise the h |z| 1612,1800 the main-mast and the mizen are of iron; otherwise the ||heat at#their base would long a |great | 1614,1802 of safety would have been ||much imperilled; but by crowdin |very | 1614,1802 of safety would have been much imperil|l|ed; but by crowding on#sail the || 1615,1803 sail the |"|Chancellor" in the full north-e || 1615,1803 sail the "Chancellor|"| in the full north-east wind co || 1615,1803 sail the "Chancellor" in the full north|-|east wind continued to#make her || 1621,1809 upon deck up to the forecastle was soon im||practicable, and the#poop, simp |-#| 1622,1810 poop, simply because its |d|oor is elevated somewhat above |fl| 1623,1811 level of the hold, is now the only avail||able standing-place.#Water bega |-#| 1624,1813 Water began to lose its effect upon the scorched and shrivel|l|ing#planks; the resin oozed out || 1630,1818 Then to complete our perplexity, the wind shifted sud||denly round#to the north-west, |-#| 1631,1819 to the north|-|west, whence it blew a perfect || 1631,1819 to the north-west, whence it blew a perfect hur||ricane. To no#purpose did Curt |-#| 1633,1821 ahull; every effort was ||vain; the "Chancellor" could no |in | 1633,1822 ahull; every effort was vain; the |"|Chancellor" could not bear her# || 1633,1822 ahull; every effort was vain; the "Chancellor|"| could not bear her# || 1640,1830 violently across the deck. A boat could not live |for |a moment in# || 1645,1834 the picrate, for the time we have quite for||gotten its existence;#indeed it |-#| 1647,1836 a relief, for no catastrophe, how||ever terrible, could far exceed |-#| 1658,1848 About eight o'clock in the evening, a noise is heard, dis||tinct#even above the raging of |-#| 1660,1850 are upheaved, and volumes of black smoke issue up|wards| as if from#a safety-valve. An |-#ward| 1661,1851 a safety-valve. A|n| universal consternation seizes || 1661,1852 a safety-valve. An universal consternation seizes one and all|:|#we must leave the volcano whic |;| 1663,1853 feet. The crew run to Curtis for or||ders. He hesitates; looks#firs |-#| 1665,1855 The long-boat is there, sus||pended right along the centre o |-#| 1665,1856 The long-boat is there, suspended right along the cent|re| of the#deck; but it is impossi |er| 1666,1856 deck; but it is impos||sible to approach it now; the y |-#| 1676,1867 again|,--|#¶"Touch the tackling of the da |:| 1682,1873 into the shrouds, whil|st| others mount to the very top o |e| 1688,1879 that seems to encircle the miz||en-mast. The fire now reaches |z| 1689,1880 the cabin o|ccupied by| Mrs. Kear, who, shrieking wild |f| 1694,1886 the very top of the miz||en.#¶The sight of Huntly recall |z| 1698,1890 what I can to set him free. But the maniac has al||ready eluded#his confinement, a |-#| 1700,1892 alight, rushes upon deck. Like a sal||amander he passes across the#bu |-#| 1704,1897 Another loud report; the long-boat is shivered into frag||ments;#the middle panel bursts |-#| 1712,1906 And in an instant, before we can get near him, he has |hurl|ed#himself, through the open ha |buri| 1717,1910 |¶|CHAPTER XIV.#¶OCTOBER 29th:--NI || 1718,1910 CHAPTER XIV|.|#¶OCTOBER 29th:--NIGHT.--The sc |#BREAKERS TO STARBOARD!| 1720,1913 OCTOBER 2|9th:--NIGHT.--|The scene, as night came on, wa |0. -- Night. -- | 1730,1923 terror, they either did not|| or would not, see that no boat |,| 1732,1925 accordingly they made a frantic rush to|wards| the yawl. Curtis#again made a |-#ward| 1733,1926 again made a vigorous endeavo|u|r to prevent them, but this tim || 1735,1929 loosened, so that the boat was swung over to the ship's side|,| For#a moment it hung suspended |.| 1736,1929 a moment it hung sus||pended in mid-air, and then, wi |-#| 1739,1932 enor||mous wave which, recoiling with |-#| 1740,1934 it to atoms against the |"|Chancellor's" side.#¶The men st || 1740,1934 it to atoms against the "Chancellor's|"| side.#¶The men stood aghast; t || 1742,1936 The men stood aghast; they were dumbfounde|re|d. Long-boat and# || 1742,1936 The men stood aghast; they were dumbfoundered. Long-||boat and#yawl both gone, there |#| 1746,1940 flames. From the cent|re| of the ship, which was hollowe |er| 1747,1942 a furnace, there issued a column of sooty vapo|u|r that ascended to# || 1750,1944 sense||less on one of the hen-coops, w |-#| 1751,1945 pas||sively at her side; M. Letourne |-#| 1754,1949 his|,| composure, for I was overcome || 1759,1954 impossible to tell how they were faring| be|cause the sheet of fire#interve |, be-#| 1763,1958 I broke the dismal silence, saying|| "All over now, Curtis."# |,| 1763,1958 I broke the dismal silence, saying "All over now|,| Curtis."# || 1772,1969 He made no answer to my impetuous questions, and find|ing that| he#had nothing more to say, I |-#ing| 1776,1974 to stand on, Mr|,| Kazallon, I shall not give up |.| 1782,1982 the extreme end of the poop. Mrs. Kear was laid in the whale-|#|boat that hung from the stern, || 1783,1982 boat that hung from the stern|,| Miss Herbey persisting to the |.| 1786,1986 No pen could adequately portray the horrors of this fear||ful#night. The "Chancellor" un |-#| 1787,1987 night. The |"|Chancellor" under bare poles, w || 1787,1987 night. The "Chancellor|"| under bare poles, was driven, || 1794,1994 But where, all this time, was the picrate? |p|erhaps, after all,# |P| 1798,1999 At half-past eleven, when the tempest seems at its very height||#there is heard a peculiar roar |,| 1805,2006 Curtis leaps on to the netting, casts a rapid glance at the snow-|#|white billows, and turning to t || 1807,2007 might|| "Starboard the helm!"#¶But it |,| 1811,2011 times she strikes the ground; the miz||en-mast snaps short off# |z| 1812,2013 level with the deck, falls into the sea, and the |"|Chancellor" is# || 1812,2013 level with the deck, falls into the sea, and the "Chancellor|"| is#motionless.#¶¶¶CHAPTER XV.# || 1816,2016 |¶|CHAPTER XV.# || 1817,2016 CHAPTER XV|.|#¶THE NIGHT OF THE 29th CONTINU |#SHIPWRECKED| 1819,2019 THE |NIGHT OF THE| 29th CONTINUED.--It was not ye |night of the| 1819,2019 THE NIGHT OF THE 29th |CONTINUED.--|It was not yet midnight; the# |continued. -- | 1819,2019 THE NIGHT OF THE 29th CONTINUED.--It was not yet mid||night; the#darkness was most pr |-#| 1823,2024 Very shortly after the ship had thus come to a stand||still a# |-| 1838,2039 "Heaven be praised!||" he said, "the water is comin | | 1843,2044 "That," he replied, "is a question for by||-and-by. We can now# |e| 1843,2044 "That," he replied, "is a question for by-and-by||. We can now#only think of the |e| 1843,2045 "That," he replied, "is a question for by-and-by. We can ||now#only think of the present." |think | 1844,2045 only |think |of the present."# || 1852,2053 in the very midst of the con||flagration, were quite unavaila |-#| 1854,2056 For three long hours, in anxious suspense, we watched|| and#watched, and waited. Wher |,| 1855,2057 wa|tched, and wa|ited. Where we were we could n || 1856,2058 alone was certain|:| the tide was ebbing beneath u |;| 1861,2063 Toward|s| half-past four in the morning || 1874,2076 permitting, endeavo|u|r to land, either in the boat o || 1876,2078 |"|Chancellor" were ascertained to || 1876,2078 "Chancellor|"| were ascertained to be strande || 1880,2082 of |al|titude, but there was no doubt |la| 1880,2083 of altitude, but there was no doubt the north|-|west wind had# || 1893,2098 I immediately reported this decision of the captain to my fellow|#|passengers. None of them seem |-| 1894,2098 passengers. None of them seem|| to realize the new danger to w |ed| 1895,2099 the |"|Chancellor" may be exposed by b || 1895,2099 the "Chancellor|"| may be exposed by being cast u || 1895,2099 the "Chancellor" may be exposed by be||ing cast upon an unknown#reef, |-#| 1900,2105 And certainly their hopes seem in a fair way of being ful||filled.#Already the raging flam |-#| 1902,2107 given place to dense black smoke, and al||though occasionally some#fiery |-#| 1907,2112 bulk of the 1||700 bales of cotton.#¶¶¶CHAPTER |,| 1910,2116 |¶|CHAPTER XVI.#¶OCTOBER 30th.--At || 1911,2116 CHAPTER XVI|.|#¶OCTOBER 30th.--At the first g |#SILAS HUNTLY RESCUED FROM THE WAVES| 1913,2119 OCTOBER 30|th.--|At the first gleam of daylight |. -- | 1914,2120 the southern and western horizons, but the morn||ing mists limited#our view. La |-#| 1916,2122 at its lowest ebb, and the colo|u|r of the few peaks of rock that || 1919,2126 water around the |"|Chancellor," though with a full || 1919,2126 water around the "Chancellor,|"| though with a full freight she || 1926,2133 deck anything but an easy matter|;| moreover as the tide-receded#s |,| 1926,2134 deck anything but an easy matter; moreover as the tide|-|receded#she heeled over so much | | 1927,2134 she heeled over so much to lar||board that at one time Curtis#f |-#| 1934,2141 loudly, "Curtis! Curtis!" Following the direc||tion of the cries#we saw that t |-#| 1935,2142 we saw that the broken miz||en-mast was being washed agains |z| 1938,2146 his life, hastened to bring the man on board|,| It proved to be# |.| 1941,2149 grave. Without a word of thanks to his deliverer, the ex-|#|captain, passive, like an autom || 1943,2151 in the most secluded corner of the poop. The broken miz||en may,#perhaps, be of service |z| 1951,2159 about a mile from south|-|west to north-east, and two hun || 1951,2159 about a mile from south-west to north|-|east, and two hundred# || 1952,2160 fathoms to the north of the ship an ir||regular mass of rocks#formed a |-#| 1955,2163 whil|st| a sort of causeway, available |e| 1957,2166 reef ended; beyond it the sea again resumed its somb|re| hue,# |er| 1960,2168 disappoint||ment began to weigh upon our sp |-#| 1975,2185 "No land in sight," he said, in answer to our eager looks| of#inquiry|.#¶At this point Mr. Kear inter || 1978,2187 At this point Mr. Kear interposed, and in a gruff, ill-||tempered#tone, asked Curtis whe |#| 1989,2198 stay for| |ever on your everlasting ship, || 1993,2202 shoulders, and turning away he informed M. Letour||neur and myself#that if the sun |-#| 1995,2206 find out to what part of the ocean we had been driven. ||His next#care was to distribute |¶| 1996,2208 care was to distribute preserved meat and biscuit among|st| the# || 1998,2209 fatigue, and then he set to work to devise meas||ures for setting#the ship afloa |-#| 2001,2212 The conflagration was greatly abated; no flames now ap||peared, and#although some black |-#| 2007,2219 soundings, and he shortly afterward|s| announced that there were# || 2020,2232 was ac||cordingly resolved that both pa |-#| 2021,2233 saf||est on board.#¶Acting upon this |-#| 2024,2237 encampment on the poop, and |the| few mattresses that were rescu |a| 2031,2244 Fortunately, although the store-room has been consider||ably#exposed to the heat, its c |-#| 2034,2247 provisions are quite intact. The st|a|ck of spare sails, which had# |o| 2035,2248 been packed away in front, is also free from in||jury. The wind#has dropped con |-#| 2038,2251 reviving|,| and we begin to think we may y || 2041,2254 M. Letourneur, his son, and I, have just had a long con||versation#about the ship's offi |-#| 2042,2255 about the ship's officers. We consider their con||duct, under the#late trying cir |-#| 2045,2258 Lieutenant Walter, the boat||swain, and Dowlas the carpenter |-#| 2054,2268 rocks were submerged, none of them being visible ex||cept the#cluster of those which |-#| 2056,2270 circular basin from 2|5|0 to 300 feet in diameter, in t |3| 2059,2273 |"|Chancellor," was pretty calm; o || 2059,2273 "Chancellor,|"| was pretty calm; otherwise the || 2065,2279 rather a matter |for| congratulation, inasmuch as it |of| 2073,2288 retiring for a short time to calculate the result|;| he returned to# |,| 2074,2289 the poop and announced that we are in lat|; 18|deg. 5min. N. and# |. 18 | 2074,2289 the poop and announced that we are in lat; 18deg. 5|min.| N. and# |'| 2075,2289 long. 45||deg. 53min. W., but that the re | | 2075,2289 long. 45deg. 53|min.| W., but that the reef on which |'| 2076,2290 is not marked |up|on the charts. The only explan || 2082,2296 is the near||est shore. Such is the positio |-#| 2084,2299 and, secondly, by the furious north|-|west gale.# || 2086,2301 Yet, after all, the captain's communication does not dis||hearten#us. As I said before, |-#| 2088,2304 the peril of fire; the fear of explosion is past and gone|;| and#oblivious of the fact that |:| 2091,2306 confidence in the future that for||bids us to despond.#¶Meanwhile |-#| 2096,2312 including|| of course, the picrate; he wil |,| 2097,2313 and then, with a lightened ship, he will take ad||vantage of the#first high tide |-#| 2101,2318 |¶|CHAPTER XVII.#¶OCTOBER 30th.--O || 2102,2318 CHAPTER XVII|.|#¶OCTOBER 30th.--Once again I t |#M. LETOURNEUR IS PESSIMISTIC| 2104,2321 OCTOBER 30|th.--|Once again I talked to M. Letou |. -- | 2105,2322 situation, and endeavo|u|red to animate him with the hop || 2106,2323 should not be detained for long in our present pre||dicament; but#he could not be b |-#| 2107,2324 he could not be brought to take a very san||guine view of our#prospects.#¶" |-#| 2116,2333 cargo is still smo|u|ldering, and that it will still || 2117,2334 days before any| |one will be able to venture int || 2118,2335 the leak, too, that has to be caulked; and, un||less it is stopped#up very effe |-#| 2119,2336 up very effectually, we shall |be |only doomed most certainly to# || 2119,2336 up very effectually, we shall be only ||doomed most certainly to# |be | 2120,2337 perish at sea. Don't|,| then, be deceiving yourself; i || 2121,2338 three weeks at least before you can ex||pect to put out to sea. I#can |-#| 2124,2341 |'|Chancellor,' shattered as she i || 2124,2341 'Chancellor,|'| shattered as she is, completel || 2124,2341 'Chancellor,' shattered as she is, com||pletely into pieces."#¶Here, th |-#| 2137,2355 gratefully, as a providential circumstance, that Cap||tain Huntly#had given him the c |-#| 2138,2356 had given him the command in time. What||ever man can do I know#that Cur |-#| 2143,2362 opportunity of trying to ascertain from Curtis himself|,| how long# || 2144,2362 he reckoned we should be obliged to re||main upon the reef; but he#mere |-#| 2145,2363 merely replied, that it must de||pend upon circumstances, and th |-#| 2146,2365 he hoped the weather would continue favo|u|rable. Fortunately the# || 2155,2373 that the combustion may be stifled between the mois||ture#descending from above and |-#| 2157,2375 has brought the pumps once more into requisi||tion. At present the#crew are |-#| 2158,2376 crew are adequate to the task of work||ing them, but I and some of#our |-#| 2159,2377 our fellow| |passengers are ready to offer o |-| 2162,2380 With no immediate demand upon our labo|u|r, we are thrown upon our# || 2163,2381 own resources for passing our time. ||Letourneur, Andre and#myself, h |M.#| 2163,2382 own resources for passing our time. Letourneur, Andre|| and#myself, have frequent conv |,| 2164,2382 myself, have frequent conversa||tions; I also devote an hour or |-#| 2166,2384 but remains ab||sorbed in his calculations, and |-#| 2170,2390 Mrs. Kear, too, hold themselves aloof from their fellow|#|passengers, and we are not sorr |-| 2173,2391 un||fortunately, however, they carr |-#| 2175,2394 for Silas Huntly, he has become a complete nonen||tity; he exists,#it is true, bu |-#| 2180,2400 pursuing her ordinary course; and, as usual, is con||tinually#falling out with Jynxt |-#| 2181,2401 falling out with Jynx||trop, the cook, an impudent, il |s| 2181,2402 falling out with Jynxtrop, the cook, an impudent, ill-favo|u|red#negro, who interferes with || 2189,2409 the origin of this strange accumula||tion of rock, yet the attempt#w |-#| 2189,2410 the origin of this strange accumulation of rock||, yet the attempt#will at least |s| 2194,2415 accurate plan of the rocks, of which Curtis could afterward|s|#verify the true position by a || 2204,2425 |¶|CHAPTER XVIII.#¶OCTOBER 31st to || 2205,2425 CHAPTER XVIII|.|#¶OCTOBER 31st to NOVEMBER 5th. |#WE EXPLORE THE REEF| 2207,2428 OCTOBER 31|st| to NOVEMBER 5th.--Our first pr || 2207,2428 OCTOBER 31st to N|OVEMBER 5th.--|Our first proceeding on the#mor |ovember 5. -- | 2213,2434 of purely volcanic origin, up||heaved by some mighty subterran |-#| 2218,2440 shafts of the prismatic columns that support the marvel|l|ous#substructure.# || 2219,2440 sub||structure.# |-#| 2222,2444 "evidently it is of quite |a |recent origin."# || 2225,2447 by a phenomenon similar to those which pro||duced the Julia Island,#off the |-#| 2228,2450 created expressly for the |'Chan|cellor' to stand upon."#¶"It is |Chan-#| 2228,2451 created expressly for the 'Chancellor|'| to stand upon."#¶"It is very c || 2228,2451 created expressly for the 'Chancellor' to st||and upon."#¶"It is very certain |r| 2238,2461 ||But, perhaps, it will disappear |"| 2240,2463 sometimes have a very transitory existence. Not im||possibly, by#the time it gets m |-#| 2243,2467 "Never mind, my boy," answered his father, "it is bet||ter to give#warning of a danger |-#| 2245,2469 does. I dare||say the sailors will not grumbl | | 2248,2473 "No, I dare||say not, father," said Andre "a | | 2248,2473 "No, I daresay not, father," said Andre|| "and after all this# |,| 2255,2480 "Why, what a fellow you are|| Andre!" I said, laughing, "I |,| 2255,2480 "Why, what a fellow you are Andre!" I said, laugh|ing,| "I believe#you would like to r |-#ing;| 2256,2482 you would like to rule Nature with a magic wand|;| first of all,# |,| 2258,2483 |'|Chancellor' time to extinguish || 2258,2483 'Chancellor|'| time to extinguish her flames, || 2267,2493 recent|,| Not a mollusc, not a tuft of s |.| 2267,2493 recent, Not a mollus|c|, not a tuft of seaweed was fou |k| 2269,2496 surface, not a bird had taken refuge amid|st| the crags upon its# || 2274,2501 When we reached the southern point of the island I pro||posed that#we should disembark. |-#| 2279,2506 alongside, and we set|,| foot upon the reef, and began || 2290,2519 his father exclaimed|,--|#¶"Why, Andre, you have drawn a |:| 2300,2529 are strong enough to tackle |with |it."#¶M. Letourneur was quite c || 2304,2533 nothing so much|,| as a fine York ham, of which t || 2305,2534 where the |"|Chancellor" had been stranded, || 2305,2534 where the "Chancellor|"| had been stranded, corresponde || 2314,2544 toward|s| the west. We had not gone ver || 2315,2545 grotto, perfect as an architectural struc||ture, arrested our#attention, M |-#| 2316,2546 attention|,| M. Letourneur and Andre who ha |.| 2316,2546 attention, M. Letourneur and Andre|| who have visited the Hebrides, |,| 2321,2551 in||terstices filled up with its ye |-#| 2322,2553 of outline in the prismatic angles, sharp as though chisel|l|ed by# || 2328,2559 highest waves, whil|st| the prismatic shafts themselve |e| 2328,2559 highest waves, whilst the prismatic shafts them||selves formed#quite a solid pav |-#| 2332,2563 returned to the |"|Chancellor," and communicated t || 2332,2563 returned to the "Chancellor,|"| and communicated the result of || 2333,2565 explorations to Curtis, who entered the island upon his chart|| by#the name that Andre Letourn |,| 2334,2565 the name |that |Andre Letourneur had proposed.# || 2334,2565 the name that Andre Letourneur had pro||posed.#¶Since its discovery we |-#| 2348,2581 Miss Herbey, only to|o| thankful to escape even for an || 2349,2582 her capricious mistress, eagerly accepted M. Letour||neur's#invitation to pay a visi |-#| 2350,2583 invitation to pay a visit to the reef|| but to her great# |,| 2352,2585 her to leave the ship. I felt intensely annoyed, and re||solved to#intercede in Miss Her |-#| 2353,2586 intercede in Miss Herbey's favo|u|r; and as I had already rendere || 2354,2588 that self-indulgent lady sundry services which she though|t| she# || 2355,2588 might probably be glad again to ac||cept, I gained my point, and#Mi |-#| 2360,2594 Sometimes we fish along the shore, and|,| then enjoy a luncheon in# || 2361,2595 the grotto, whil|st| the basalt columns vibrate lik |e| 2363,2597 cramped limits of the |"|Chancellor's" deck is like some || 2363,2597 cramped limits of the "Chancellor's|"| deck is like some vast# || 2366,2600 |merrily |trodden, and I am sure that whe || 2370,2604 to say that he believed the island of Staffa be||longed to the#Macdonald family, |-#| 2371,2606 Macdonald family, who let it for the small sum of |12 pounds| a#year.#¶"I suppose then," sai |L.12| 2377,2612 "I don't think you would get a penny for it|,| Miss Herbey; but are# |.| 2378,2613 you thinking of taking a lease?" I said|,| laughing.# || 2380,2615 "Not at present," she said; then added, with a half-sup||pressed#sigh, "and yet it is a |-#| 2390,2625 |¶|CHAPTER XIX.#¶NOVEMBER 6th to N || 2391,2625 CHAPTER XIX|.|#¶NOVEMBER 6th to NOVEMBER 15th |#THE CARGO UNLOADED| 2393,2628 NOVEMBER 6|th| to NOVEMBER 15th.--For the fir || 2393,2628 NOVEMBER 6th to N|OVEMBER 15th.--|For the first five days after t |ovember 15. -- | 2394,2629 |"|Chancellor" had run aground, th || 2394,2629 "Chancellor|"| had run aground, there was a d || 2395,2630 continually rising from the hold; but it grad||ually diminished#until the 6th |-#| 2397,2632 was extinguished. Curtis, neverthe||less, deemed it prudent to#pers |-#| 2402,2637 The rapidity, however, with which the water, at every re||treat of#the tide, drained off |-#| 2406,2641 Flaypole, dived one day at low water to ex||amine the extent of the#damage, |-#| 2409,2645 feet above the rider of the keel; three planks had been stove|d| in#by a sharp point of rock, a || 2410,2645 by a sharp point of rock|,| and it was only a wonder that || 2412,2648 ashore did not result in the smashing in of many parts beside|s|.#¶As it would be a couple of d || 2417,2654 Curtis employed the interval in having the broken miz||en-mast# |z| 2418,2654 repaired. Dowlas the carpenter, with con||siderable skill,#contrived to m |-#| 2419,2655 contrived to morti|c|e it into its former stump, and |s| 2419,2655 contrived to mortice it into its former stump|,| and made the#junction thorough |.| 2420,2656 junction thoroughly secure by strong iron-||belts and bolts. The#shrouds, |#| 2424,2661 the poop and to the crew's lockers|,| in the front; but time and# || 2425,2661 labo|u|r were all that were wanted to || 2426,2662 a will|,| did every one set to work that || 2426,2662 a will, did every| one| set to work that it was not lo |-#body| 2440,2677 hole. This, how||ever, of itself would have been |-#| 2445,2683 hold the men were enabled to r|esume| their task of unlading.# |‚sum‚| 2450,2688 appliances are wanting for such an un||dertaking; moreover, any bad#we |-#| 2457,2695 After two days' toil the water was entirely reduced|| and without# |,| 2464,2702 the labo|u|r.#¶One thing there is which is || 2466,2704 One thing there is which is much in our favo|u|r; the ship lies on# || 2474,2712 |¶|CHAPTER XX.#¶NOVEMBER 15th to 2 || 2475,2712 CHAPTER XX|.|#¶NOVEMBER 15th to 20th.--The e |#EXAMINATION OF THE HOLD| 2477,2715 NOVEMBER 15|th| to 20th.--The examination of t || 2477,2715 NOVEMBER 15th to 20|th.--|The examination of the hold has |. -- | 2478,2716 been made. Among|st| the first things that were fou || 2479,2717 of picrate, perfectly intact|;| having neither been injured by |,| 2484,2723 While they were below, Curtis and Dowlas made them||selves#acquainted with the full |-#| 2491,2731 portion of the inside boarding had been burn|t| away, and the very# |ed| 2492,2731 ribs of the vessel were con||siderably damaged; the oakum ca |-#| 2498,2738 faces. Curtis lost no time in assembling pas||sengers and crew,#and announcin |-#| 2502,2743 |'|Chancellor' has sustained far g || 2502,2743 'Chancellor|'| has sustained far greater inju || 2503,2743 sus||pected, and that her hull is ve |-#| 2505,2746 at any time be overwhelmed by a tempestuous sea|| I should not have#hesitated to |,| 2506,2747 hesitated to take the ship to pieces, and con||struct a smaller#vessel that mi |-#| 2510,2752 ten or twelve days, if the weather should be favo|u|rable, I# || 2516,2758 unanimously accepted|| Dowlas and his assistants imme |.| 2516,2758 unanimously accepted Dowlas and his assistants im||mediately set to#work to repair |-#| 2518,2761 the leak; they took care thoroughly to ca|u|lk from the outside all# || 2522,2765 pains there is no doubt the |"|Chancellor" is not fit for a lo || 2522,2765 pains there is no doubt the "Chancellor|"| is not fit for a long# || 2526,2769 To-day|,| the 20th, Curtis having done a || 2529,2772 Ever since the |"|Chancellor" had been relieved o || 2529,2772 Ever since the "Chancellor|"| had been relieved of her cargo || 2540,2784 matter to put the |"|Chancellor" to sea; if the wind || 2540,2784 matter to put the "Chancellor|"| to sea; if the wind were# || 2541,2785 favo|u|rable the sails would be hoiste || 2541,2785 favourable the sails would be hoisted|,| if otherwise, she would# |;| 2547,2792 water to float the |"|Chancellor," even when entirely || 2547,2792 water to float the "Chancellor,|"| even when entirely unfreighted || 2547,2792 water to float the "Chancellor," even when en||tirely unfreighted.#To be sure |-#| 2551,2796 barrier into her pres||ent position. Besides, on that |-#| 2551,2797 barrier into her present position. Besides, on that ever|-|#memorable night, there had not || 2552,2798 memorable night, there had not only been the ordinary spring-|#|tide, but an equinoctial tide, || 2560,2806 The wind was blowing from the north|-|west, and consequently right# || 2560,2806 The wind was blowing from the north-west, and conse||quently right#in the direction |-#| 2571,2818 chains were attached to the windlass, the sailors worked a|way a|t#the handspikes, and at four o || 2572,2818 the hand||spikes, and at four o'clock in |-| 2573,2819 |"|Chancellor" was in motion.# || 2573,2819 "Chancellor|"| was in motion.# || 2573,2819 "Chancellor" was in mo||tion.#¶High tide would be at tw |-#| 2580,2827 was no longer any reason why the mechanical ac||tion of the wind#should not be |-#| 2581,2828 should not be brought to bear and con||tribute its assistance.#Without |-#| 2585,2832 being at the star||board bar. Curtis stood upon t |-#| 2588,2836 propitiously calm and|,| as it swelled gently to and fr |;| 2591,2839 "Now, my boys," said Curtis|| in his calm clear voice, "all# |,| 2605,2854 turn|;| and the "Chancellor" would not |:| 2605,2854 turn; and the |"|Chancellor" would not advance a || 2605,2854 turn; and the "Chancellor|"| would not advance an inch. Wa || 2607,2856 balanced upon the ridge. In an instant the cap||tain has ordered#the sails to b |-#| 2612,2862 The |"|Chancellor" tacks to stern, and || 2612,2862 The "Chancellor|"| tacks to stern, and glides bac || 2617,2868 "I don't know||" said Curtis, "but we shall ge |,| 2620,2872 |¶|CHAPTER XXI.#¶NOVEMBER 21st to || 2621,2872 CHAPTER XXI|.|#¶NOVEMBER 21st to 24th.--There |#THE "CHANCELLOR" RELEASED FROM HER PRISON| 2623,2875 NOVEMBER 21|st to 24th.--|There was assuredly no time to | TO 24. -- | 2624,2876 before we ought to leave Ham Rock reef. The barom||eter had been#falling ever sinc |-#| 2626,2879 there was every symptom that the weather, hitherto so favo|u|rable,#was on the point of brea || 2628,2880 |"|Chancellor" must inevitably be || 2628,2880 "Chancellor|"| must inevitably be dashed to p || 2631,2884 uncovered, Curtis, the boatswain, and Dowlas went to exam||ine the#ridge which had proved |-#| 2632,2885 ridge which had proved so serious an obstruction|,| Falsten and I#accompanied them |.| 2633,2886 accompanied them. We came to the conclu||sion that the only way of#effec |-#| 2642,2895 "besides, we can only get at it at low water, and conse||quently#could only work at it f |-#| 2645,2899 "All the more reason why we should begin at once, boat||swain,"#said Curtis.# |-#| 2649,2903 the ship may be knocked to atoms. Couldn't we man||age to blow up#the rock? we ha |-#| 2650,2904 the rock? we have got some powder |on |board."# |a| 2652,2906 "Not enough for that|;|" said the boatswain.# |,| 2661,2915 grievously imperil|l|ed the vessel was now to serve || 2663,2917 been deposited safely on the reef, instead of be||ing thrown into#the sea.#¶Picri |-#| 2666,2920 |Picric acid is a crystalline bitter product extracted from coal-#tar, and forming, in combination with potash, a yellow salt known#as picrate of potash. The explosive power of this substance is#inferior to that of gun-cotton or of dynamite, but far greater#than that of ordinary gunpowder; one grain of picric powder#producing an effect equal to that of thirteen grains of common#powder. Picrate is easily ignited by any sharp or violent shock,#and some gun-priming which we had in our possession would answer#the purpose of setting it alight.#¶|The sailors went off at once fo || 2682,2926 had labo|u|red with a will, had only been || 2686,2931 Not until eight o'clock on the morning of the 23|r|d was the work# || 2690,2935 Falsten interposed:|--|#¶"Stop," he said, "I think it || 2701,2947 Falsten is not a great talker, but what he does say is al||ways#very much to the point. Hi |-#| 2702,2948 very much to the point. His good advice was imme||diately followed;#the two subst |-#| 2706,2953 Notwithstanding that the |"|Chancellor" was at a distance f || 2706,2953 Notwithstanding that the "Chancellor|"| was at a distance from the# || 2722,2969 were opened, and we were prison||ers no more!#¶At high tide the |-#| 2722,2970 were opened, and we were prisoners no more|!|#¶At high tide the "Chancellor" |.| 2724,2972 At high tide the |"|Chancellor" weighed anchor and || 2724,2972 At high tide the "Chancellor|"| weighed anchor and floated out || 2725,2973 the |open |sea, but she was not in a condi || 2731,2981 I took a farewell walk round the reef, and Andre|| with artistic# |,| 2732,2982 skill, carved on the wall of the grotto the word |"|Chancellor,"# || 2732,2982 skill, carved on the wall of the grotto the word "Chancellor|,"#--|the designation Ham Rock, which | -- | 2733,2982 --the designation ||Ham Rock, which we had given to |of | 2733,2983 --the designation Ham Rock, which we had given to the reef|,--|and#the date of our running agr | -- | 2735,2985 of our three week|'s| sojourn, where we had passed d |s'| 2740,2990 sails all set, the |"|Chancellor" started on her onwa || 2740,2990 sails all set, the "Chancellor|"| started on her onward way, and || 2745,2995 |¶|CHAPTER XXII.#¶NOVEMBER 24th to || 2746,2995 CHAPTER XXII|.|#¶NOVEMBER 24th to DECEMBER 1st |#A NEW DANGER| 2748,2998 NOVEMBER 24|th| to DECEMBER 1st.--Here we were || 2748,2998 NOVEMBER 24th to D|ECEMBER 1st.--|Here we were then once more at# |ecember1. -- | 2750,3001 questionable, we had hopes, if the wind continued favo|u|rable, of# || 2753,3004 Our way was south|-|west and consequently with the || 2756,3007 |"|Chancellor" made a progress tha || 2756,3007 "Chancellor|"| made a progress that was quite || 2760,3011 that would otherwise go on be||tween passenger and passenger.# |-#| 2762,3014 The first few days passed without any incident worth re||cording,#then on the 29th, the |-#| 2766,3018 and as Curtis felt that she was labo|u|ring far too heavily, he# || 2767,3019 cl|u|ed up the top-gallants, prudent |ew| 2768,3020 circumstances, caution was far more impor||tant than speed.#¶The night cam |-#| 2770,3023 The night came on dark and foggy. The breeze fresh||ened#considerably, and, unfortu |-#| 2771,3025 considerably, and, unfortunately for us, hailed from the north|-#|west. Although we carried no t || 2772,3025 west. Although we carried no top|-|sails at all, the ship seemed#t || 2774,3028 to their cabins, but all the crew remained on deck, whil|st| Curtis# |e| 2777,3030 Toward|s| two o'clock in the morning I w || 2777,3030 Towards two o'clock in the morning I was myself prepar||ing to go#to my cabin, when Bur |-#| 2779,3032 into the hold, came on deck with the |ominous cry,--|#¶"Two feet of water below."# |cry:| 2788,3041 ship go with the wind|| and wait for day.# |,| 2790,3044 At daybreak they sounded again|:--|"Three feet of water!" was the | -- | 2791,3045 report|,| I glanced at Curtis, his lips |.| 2791,3045 report, I glanced at Curtis|,| his lips were white, but he ha | --| 2792,3046 lost his self-possession. He quietly in||formed such of the#passengers a |-#| 2795,3049 the fact could not be long con||cealed. I told M. Letourneur t |-#| 2798,3052 to an expres||sion of despair, but he was soo |-#| 2802,3057 incessantly, turn and turn about|| at the pumps. The men applied |,| 2804,3059 ardo|u|r; the labour was hard and scar || 2804,3059 ardour; the labo|u|r was hard and scarcely repaid || 2804,3059 ardour; the labour was hard and scarcely re||paid them; the pumps#were const |-#| 2810,3066 Slowly|,| but surely, the water continue || 2810,3066 Slowly, but surely|,| the water continued to rise, a || 2811,3067 following morning the soundings gave five feet for its depth|,| I#noticed that Curtis's brow c |.| 2815,3071 must the efforts for keeping down the level be re||laxed. Already#the ship had su |-#| 2820,3076 All yesterday|,| and last night, the pumping co || 2820,3076 All yesterday, and last night|,| the pumping continued; but sti || 2820,3076 All yesterday, and last night, the pumping continued|;| but still#the sea gained upon |,| 2821,3077 the sea gained upon us. The crew are weary and dis||couraged, but#the second office |-#| 2832,3088 |¶|CHAPTER XXIII.#¶DECEMBER 2nd an || 2833,3088 CHAPTER XXIII|.|#¶DECEMBER 2nd and 3rd.--For fo |#AN ATTEMPT AT MUTINY| 2835,3091 DECEMBER 2|nd| and 3rd.--For four hours we ha || 2835,3091 DECEMBER 2nd and 3|rd.--|For four hours we have succeede |. -- | 2842,3098 and carpenter, accompanied him. After dislodg||ing some of the#bales of cotton |-#| 2844,3100 sound; but whether the water was enter||ing at the original#aperture, o |-#| 2846,3103 dislocation of the seams, we were unable to discover. But||#whichever might be the case, C |,| 2847,3103 whichever might be the case, Curtis de||termined to try a plan#which, b |-#| 2850,3106 her hull more water||tight. For this purpose he had |-| 2851,3107 well|-|tarred sails drawn upwards by r | | 2851,3107 well-tarred sails drawn upward|s| by ropes from below the keel, || 2852,3108 high as the previous leak|ing-|place, and then fastened closel |-#ing | 2867,3124 was made up|,| he should remain on board the | --| 2867,3125 was made up, he should remain on board the |"|Chancellor" until she# || 2867,3125 was made up, he should remain on board the "Chancellor|"| until she# || 2871,3129 During the night the canvas covering yielded to the pres||sure of#the waves, and this mor |-#| 2872,3130 the waves, and this morning, after taking the sound||ing, the#boatswain could not su |-#| 2873,3131 boatswain could not suppress an oath when |be an|nounced "Six feet#of water in t |he an-#| 2873,3132 boatswain could not suppress an oath when be announced|| "Six feet#of water in the hold |,| 2882,3141 But all in vain! At half-past eight more water is re||ported in#the hold, and some of |-#| 2883,3142 the hold, and some of the sailors, overcome by de||spair, refuse to#work one minut |-#| 2887,3146 mentioned before|,| as exhibiting something of a m || 2887,3146 mentioned before, as exhibiting something of a mu||tinous spirit,#He is about fort |-#| 2887,3147 mentioned before, as exhibiting something of a mutinous spirit|,|#He is about forty years of age |.| 2891,3150 sinister|-|looking wrinkles, his lips curl | | 2891,3151 sinister-looking wrinkles, his lips curl inward|s|, and his ears# || 2892,3151 protrude, whil|st| his bleared and bloodshot eyes |e| 2895,3154 Among|st| the five or six other men who || 2895,3154 Amongst the five or six other men who had struck work|,| I noticed#Jynxtrop the cook, w || 2896,3155 Jynx|trop| the cook, who evidently shared |strop,| 2896,3156 Jynxtrop the cook, who evidently shared all Owen's ill| |feelings.# |-| 2900,3161 made a step forward as though to approach him, he said savagely|,--|#¶"I advise you not to touch me |:| 2905,3166 Curtis descended to his cabin, and almost immediately re||turned#with a loaded revolver i |-#| 2909,3170 but at a sign from Jynx||trop he seemed to recollect him |s| 2909,3171 but at a sign from Jynxtrop he seemed to recollect himself|;| and,# |,| 2913,3175 |¶|CHAPTER XXIV.#¶DECEMBER 4th.--T || 2914,3175 CHAPTER XXIV|.|#¶DECEMBER 4th.--The first atte |#CURTIS RESOLVES TO ABANDON THE SHIP| 2916,3178 DECEMBER 4|th.--|The first attempt at mutiny bei |. -- | 2923,3186 hardly rose at all to the waves, which con||sequently often washed#over the |-#| 2924,3188 over the deck and contributed their part toward|s| aggravating our# || 2930,3194 Curtis kept the men up to the mark, and, willing or unwill||ing,#they had no alternative bu |-#| 2931,3196 they had no alternative but to work on as best they might; but|,|#in spite of all their efforts, || 2934,3198 themselves immersed up to their waists|| and were obliged to come#on de |,| 2941,3206 carry those who could not find room in her. Dowlas|| the#carpenter, Mr. Falsten, an |,| 2948,3212 beginning without delay|| by cutting and trimming the sp |,| 2950,3214 the sea|,| which was propitiously calm, s | --| 2950,3214 the sea, which was propitiously calm|,| so as to favour the#operation | --| 2950,3215 the sea, which was propitiously calm, so as to favo|u|r the#operation (which otherwis || 2956,3220 I kept my own place steadily at the pumps, and Andre Le||tourneur#worked at my side; I o |-#| 2957,3221 worked at my side|;| I often noticed his father gla |.| 2964,3229 Mrs. Kea|t|, who had been for some time in |r| 2965,3231 unconsciousness, was not informed of the immediate danger|,| but#when Miss Herbey, looking |;| 2968,3233 precaution for herself|| and to be ready for any emerge |,| 2975,3241 Toward|s| eight o'clock in the evening t || 2975,3242 Towards eight o'clock in the evening the framework for the raft|.|#was almost complete, and the m || 2976,3242 was almost complete, and the men were lower||ing empty barrels,#which had fi |-#| 2978,3244 the wood|-|work to insure its floating.# || 2984,3251 and Miss Herbey, who were bearing the inan||imate form of Mrs.#Keat. Curti |-#| 2985,3252 Kea|t|. Curtis ran to his cabin, ins |r| 2985,3253 Keat. Curtis ran to his cabin, instantly returning with a chart|;|#a sextant, and a compass in hi |,| 2990,3257 sailors toward|s| the raft that was not yet read || 2997,3265 upon my shoulder.|| Turning round I beheld M. Let |.| 2998,3266 tears in his eyes, pointing toward|s| his son. "Yes, my friend," I# || 3002,3272 hurrying him to the main-mast shrouds, when the |"|Chancellor,"# || 3002,3272 hurrying him to the main-mast shrouds, when the "Chancellor,|"|#which had been scudding along || 3004,3274 suddenly, with a violent shock, and began to settle|,| The sea rose# |.| 3005,3274 over my an|cles| and almost instinctively I clu |kles,| 3005,3274 over my ancles and almost instinc||tively I clutched at the neares |-#| 3010,3280 |¶|CHAPTER XXV.#¶NIGHT OF DECEMBER || 3011,3280 CHAPTER XXV|.|#¶NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4th.--Curti |#WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE| 3013,3283 NIGHT |OF DECEMBER 4th.--|Curtis caught young Letourneur |of December 4. -- | 3014,3284 his arms, and|| running with him across the fl |,| 3014,3285 his arms, and running with him across the flooded deck|| deposited#him safely in the st |,| 3020,3290 poop; whil|st| in the extreme aft near the ta |e| 3020,3290 poop; whilst in the extreme aft near the taff||rail, which was#still above wat |-#| 3022,3292 Kear, Miss Herbey, and Mr. Fal|sten| The lieutenant and the#boatswa |-#sten.| 3031,3302 her to listen to remonstrance||, and she insisted upon remaini |s| 3032,3303 the poop|,| Miss Herbey, of course, stayin | --| 3034,3306 As soon as the captain saw the |"|Chancellor" was no longer# || 3034,3306 As soon as the captain saw the "Chancellor|"| was no longer# || 3035,3307 sinking, he set to work to take down all the sails|,| yards and# | --| 3036,3308 all|,| and the top-gallants, in the h | --| 3038,3310 might diminish the chance of her capsizing alto||gether.#¶"But may she not found |-#| 3045,3318 however, is certain, the |'|Chancellor' preserves her equil || 3045,3318 however, is certain, the 'Chancellor|' pre|serves her equilibrium#for the | pre-#| 3052,3325 wind|,| and if the wind remains in its |;| 3057,3330 "You have not|| then," I added, "abandoned all |,| 3058,3331 marvel|l|ed at his composure.# || 3060,3333 "While there's life there's hope, you know|| Mr. Kazallon; out of a# |,| 3062,3335 odd one may be in our favo|u|r. Besides, I believe that our || 3063,3337 is not without precedent. In the year 1795|| a three-master, the# |,| 3064,3337 |'|Juno,' was precisely in the sam || 3064,3337 'Juno,|'| was precisely in the same half || 3065,3338 condition as ourselves; and yet|| with her passengers and crew# |,| 3066,3339 clinging to her top-masts|| she drifted for twenty days, u |,| 3069,3343 us hold on to the hope that the survivors of the |'|Chancellor' may# || 3069,3343 us hold on to the hope that the survivors of the 'Chancellor|'| may# || 3083,3357 disap||peared. The ropes that had att |-#| 3087,3362 The crew were frantic at this new misfortune, and shout||ing#"Overboard with the masts!" |-#| 3091,3367 But here Curtis interposed:|--|#¶"Back to your places, my men; || 3103,3380 out the whale||boat in search of it, and there |-| 3112,3390 measuring twelve feet across|;| to prevent them losing their# |:| 3120,3399 deck, have been hoisted to the top-mast|s| and fastened firmly to#the sta || 3124,3404 |¶|CHAPTER XXVI.#¶DECEMBER 5th.--T || 3125,3404 CHAPTER XXVI|.|#¶DECEMBER 5th.--The day was ve |#MR. KEAR MAKES A BUSINESS DEAL| 3127,3407 DECEMBER 5|th.--|The day was very hot. December |. -- | 3127,3407 DECEMBER 5th.--The day was very hot. December in lati||tude 16deg.#N. is a summer mont |-#| 3127,3408 DECEMBER 5th.--The day was very hot. December in latitude 16||deg.#N. is a summer month, and | | 3137,3417 The |"|Chancellor's" hull is three-fou || 3137,3417 The "Chancellor's|"| hull is three-fourths immerged || 3139,3419 suspended, the poop and the forecastle are the only por||tions that#now are visible; and |-#| 3141,3421 quite below the water, these appear to be con||nected only by the#framework of |-#| 3145,3425 practi|s|ed dexterity, manage to hoist t |c| 3146,3426 the stays. For the pas||sengers, cowering on their narr |-#| 3153,3434 Meanwhile, the crew worked away with all their remain||ing vigour#at the second raft, |-#| 3153,3435 Meanwhile, the crew worked away with all their remaining vigo|u|r#at the second raft, for which || 3163,3444 struc||ture of considerable solidity. |-#| 3164,3446 was self-apparent, and as the crew had recovered their as||surance#they spared no pains to |-#| 3165,3447 they spared no pains to accomplish their work effec||tually.#¶Of all the number, the |-#| 3169,3452 his head with an oracular gravity. He is an old||ish man, not less#than sixty, w |-#| 3171,3455 many travels. As I was making my way toward|s| the poop, he came# || 3175,3458 afther lavin' |of |the ship?"# || 3178,3461 continued|,--|#¶"And isn't it me myself that' |:| 3182,3465 rafts or boats|| sure and they found a wathery |;| 3185,3469 Having thus unburdened his mind he relapsed|,| into silence, and# || 3185,3469 Having thus unburdened his mind he relapsed, into si||lence, and#soon went away.# |-#| 3189,3473 holding an animated conversation in the fore|| top. The petroleum#merchant h |-| 3191,3475 round to his opinion, for I|,| saw him several times shake hi || 3192,3476 as he gave long and scrutin||izing looks at the sea and sky. |-#| 3193,3477 less than an hour after|wards| I saw Huntly let himself down |-#ward| 3194,3479 forestays and clamber along to the fore||castle where he joined the# |-| 3194,3479 forestays and clamber along to the forecastle|| where he joined the# |,| 3198,3483 afterward|s| joined the party in the main-t || 3198,3483 afterwards joined the party in the main-top, where we con||tinued#talking for some hours. |-#| 3200,3485 been for the shelter|'| afforded by the sail-tent, wou || 3201,3486 unbearable. At five o'clock we took as re||freshment some dried#meat and b |-#| 3202,3487 meat and biscuit, each individual be||ing also allowed half a glass#o |-#| 3203,3488 of water. Mrs. Kear|,| prostrate with fever, could no || 3209,3494 after|wards| I heard him hail some of the s |-#ward| 3209,3495 afterwards I heard him hail some of the sailors on the fore||castle#and ask them to help him |-| 3218,3505 A long discussion ensued. The men evidently were ask||ing more#than Mr. Kear was incl |-#| 3219,3507 than Mr. Kear was inclined to give, and at one time i|f| seemed as# |t| 3223,3510 them over to one of the men|,| The man counted them carefully |.| 3229,3517 they afterward|s| fastened to the forestay; then || 3229,3517 they afterwards fastened to the fore||stay; then, in a way which#prov |-#| 3238,3528 As night drew on, the wind grew calmer, but the sea re||mained very#rough. The moon ha |-#| 3241,3531 Some long lines of vapo|u|r on the horizon were tinged wi || 3241,3531 Some long lines of vapour on the hori||zon were tinged with a rosy#gla |-#| 3244,3534 but a north-||easter would bear the frail raf |#| 3247,3538 About eight o'clock in the evening|| Curtis mounted to the main-top |,| 3247,3539 About eight o'clock in the evening Curtis mounted to the main-top||#but he seemed preoccupied and |,| 3248,3540 but he seemed preoccupied and anxious, and did not speak to any|#|one. He remained for a quarter || 3253,3545 to sleep; but my mind was filled with strange fore||bodings, and#sleep was impossib |-#| 3261,3554 as if illumin||ed by a submarine glimmer. I s |at| 3263,3556 speck floating|| on the dazzling whiteness of t |,| 3263,3556 speck floating on the dazzling white||ness of the waters, a speck#tha |-#| 3264,3557 that cannot be a rock|;| because it rises and falls wit |,| 3266,3559 overclouded; the sea|,| is darkened, and I return to m || 3267,3560 couch close to the lar||board shrouds.#¶¶¶CHAPTER XXVII |-#| 3270,3564 |¶|CHAPTER XXVII.# || 3271,3564 CHAPTER XXVII|.|#¶DECEMBER 6th.--I must have fa |#THE WHALE-BOAT MISSING| 3273,3567 DECEMBER 6|th.--|I must have fallen asleep for a |. -- | 3273,3568 DECEMBER 6th.--I must have fallen asleep for a few hours, when|| at#four o'clock in the morning |,| 3278,3573 I got up, and holding tightly to the purlin|--|for the waves made# | -- | 3279,3574 the masts tremble with their violence|--|I tried to look around and# | -- | 3281,3576 of livid-looking foam were dashing be||tween the masts, which were#osc |-#| 3283,3579 faintly distinguish two figures |o|n the stern, whom, by the sound |i| 3288,3584 do something to the rigging, passed close be||hind me.#¶"What's the matter?" |-#| 3290,3587 "What's the matter?" I asked|,|#¶"The wind has changed," he an |.| 3296,3593 Dead against us! then|,| thought I, the wind had shifte |.| 3297,3594 south|-|west, and my last night's foreb || 3299,3597 When daylight at length appeared, I found the wind| al|though not#blowing actually fro |, al-#| 3300,3598 blowing actually from the south|-|west, had veered round to the# || 3301,3599 north|-|west, a change which was equall || 3301,3599 north-west, a change which was equally dis||astrous to us, inasmuch#as it w |-#| 3305,3603 and the fore||castle and the poop were now al |-#| 3307,3605 ex||pedition Curtis and his crew we |-#| 3307,3606 expedition Curtis and his crew were labo|u|ring away at their raft,#but th || 3313,3612 As I watched the men at their work|| M. Letourneur, with one arm# |,| 3314,3613 supporting his son, came ||and stood by my side.# |out | 3320,3619 Miss Herbey heard his words|,| and pointing towards Mrs. Kear || 3320,3619 Miss Herbey heard his words, and pointing toward|s| Mrs. Kear, who# || 3326,3625 "No|;|" said Andre "this is our best |,| 3326,3625 "No;" said Andre|| "this is our best refuge; I ho |,| 3329,3628 "Not for myself," said the young girl quietly|| "only for those to# |,| 3335,3634 "Ay, ay, sir," said one of the men|--|O'Ready, I think.# | -- | 3337,3636 "Where's the whale| |boat?" shouted the boatswain.# |-| 3337,3636 "Where's the whale boat?" shouted the boatswain||.#¶"I don't know, sir. Not wit | in a#loud voice| 3345,3645 Silas Huntly, and three sailors,|--|a Scotchman and two Englishmen, | -- | 3345,3645 Silas Huntly, and three sailors,--a Scotch||man and two Englishmen,#--were |-#| 3346,3646 --||were missing. Afraid that the | | 3346,3647 --were missing. Afraid that the |"|Chancellor" would founder# || 3346,3647 --were missing. Afraid that the "Chancellor|"| would founder# || 3361,3662 The crew were furious when they heard of the surrepti||tious#flight, and loaded the fu |-#| 3368,3669 In accordance with my advice, Mrs. Kear has not been in||formed of#her husband's disappe |-#| 3371,3672 the medicine| |chest was lost when the ship be |-| 3373,3674 score, feeling|| as I do, that in a case like M |,| 3377,3678 |¶|CHAPTER XXVIII.#¶DECEMBER 6th C || 3378,3678 CHAPTER XXVIII|.|#¶DECEMBER 6th CONTINUED.--The |#MRS. KEAR SUCCUMBS TO FEVER| 3380,3681 DECEMBER 6|th CONTINUED.--The "|Chancellor" no longer maintaine | continued. -- The | 3380,3681 DECEMBER 6th CONTINUED.--The "Chancellor|"| no longer maintained#her equil || 3380,3681 DECEMBER 6th CONTINUED.--The "Chancellor" no longer main||tained#her equilibrium; we felt |-#| 3382,3683 her hull was probably breaking up. The main-||top was already only#ten feet a |#| 3383,3684 ten feet above |the |water, whilst the bowsprit, wit || 3383,3684 ten feet above the water, whil|st| the bowsprit, with the excepti |e| 3383,3684 ten feet above the water, whilst the bow||sprit, with the exception#of th |-#| 3387,3688 The |"|Chancellor's" last day, we felt || 3387,3688 The "Chancellor's|"| last day, we felt, had come.# || 3390,3691 preferred to wait till morning|| we should be able to embark in |,| 3396,3697 the water. The upper platform is con||structed from the planks#that w |-#| 3403,3705 which, one and all, we now contemplated the fate be||fore us? For#my own part I was |-#| 3404,3706 my own part|| I was possessed rather by a be |,| 3405,3707 than by any sense of genuine resigna||tion. M. Letourneur was#entire |-#| 3407,3709 his father|;| at the same time exhibiting a |,| 3407,3710 his father; at the same time exhibiting a |calm |Christian# || 3412,3714 pocket|-|book. Mrs. Kear, in spite of a || 3417,3720 more ill-disposed among|st| them seemed inclined to run in || 3418,3721 excesses; and their conduct, under the bad in||fluence of Owen and#Jynxtrop, m |-#| 3419,3722 Jynx||trop, made it doubtful whether |s| 3421,3724 Lieutenant Walter, al||though his courage never failed |-#| 3423,3726 labo|u|r; but Curtis and the boatswain || 3429,3733 from her sufferings. Mrs. Kear, after a most dis||tressing#illness, through which |-#| 3433,3737 of the peril of|,| her situation.#¶The night pass || 3435,3740 The night passed on without further incident. Toward|s| morning I#touched the dead wom || 3443,3749 shrouds say|,--|#¶"There goes a carcase that we |:| 3445,3751 "There goes a carcas|e| that we shall be sorry we have |s| 3448,3754 I looked round sharply. It was Owen who had spoken|,| But horrible#as were his words |.| 3453,3760 |¶|CHAPTER XXIX.#¶DECEMBER 7th.--T || 3454,3760 CHAPTER XXIX|.|#¶DECEMBER 7th.--The ship was s |#WE EMBARK ON THE RAFT| 3456,3763 DECEMBER 7|th.--|The ship was sinking rapidly; t |. -- | 3458,3765 submerged; the top of the bowsprit had disap||peared, and only the#three mast |-#| 3466,3775 shore which the |"|Chancellor" has failed to reach || 3466,3775 shore which the "Chancellor|"| has failed to reach; at any ra || 3469,3778 We were just on the point of embarking at 7 |a.m|. when the# |A. M| 3470,3779 |"|Chancellor" all at once began t || 3470,3779 "Chancellor|"| all at once began to sink so r || 3472,3781 speed to cut the ropes that secured it to the vessel|| to prevent# |,| 3472,3781 speed to cut the ropes that secured it to the vessel to pre||vent#it from being swallowed up |-#| 3473,3783 it from being swallowed up in the eddying waters. ||Anxiety, the#most intense, took |¶| 3479,3790 the very first th|at th|ey were quite powerless to comb || 3481,3792 raft|,| nor return to the ship. Curti || 3482,3793 and tried to swim to their assistance; but long be||fore he could#reach them the un |-#| 3483,3794 reach them|| the unfortunate men, after a v |,| 3490,3801 which had drifted about two cables||-lengths away; but, in spite of |'| 3491,3802 all their efforts, it was fully an hour|,--|an hour which seemed to#us, wai | --#| 3492,3804 us, waiting as we were with the water up to the level of the top|-|#masts, like an eternity--befor || 3493,3804 masts, like an eternity|--be|fore they succeeded in bringing | -- be-#| 3494,3805 raft alongside, and lash||ing it once again to the "Chanc |-#| 3494,3806 raft alongside, and lashing it once again to the |"|Chancellor's"#main-mast.#¶Not a || 3494,3806 raft alongside, and lashing it once again to the "Chancellor's|"|#main-mast.#¶Not a moment was t || 3499,3810 air|-|bubbles were rising to the surf || 3501,3813 The time was come. At Curtis's word|| "Embark!" we all hurried to# |,| 3502,3814 the raft. Andre|| who insisted upon seeing Miss |,| 3505,3818 and old O'Ready had left the |"|Chancellor."# || 3505,3818 and old O'Ready had left the "Chancellor.|"|#¶Curtis remained standing on t || 3509,3822 loved so well, and the loss of which he so much de||plored.#¶"Now then, old fellow |-#| 3511,3825 "Now then, old fellow|| off of this!" cried the capta |,| 3514,3828 "And is it quite sure ye are that she's sinkin||?" he said.# |'| 3522,3838 the ship; the rope was cut|| and we went slowly adrift.# |,| 3524,3841 All eyes were fixed upon the spot where the |"|Chancellor" lay# || 3524,3841 All eyes were fixed upon the spot where the "Chancellor|"| lay#foundering. The top of th || 3525,3842 foundering. The top of the miz||en was the first to disappear,# |z| 3525,3842 foundering. The top of the mizen was the first to dis||appear,#then followed the main- |-#| 3530,3847 |¶|CHAPTER XXX.#¶Will this frail f || 3531,3847 CHAPTER XXX|.#¶Will| this frail float, forty feet b |#OUR SITUATION CRITICAL#¶WILL| 3533,3850 Will this frail |fl|oat, forty feet by twenty, bear |b| 3534,3851 Sink it cannot; the material of which it is com||posed is of a kind#that must su |-#| 3537,3854 tremendous strain to bear in resist||ing the violence of the sea.#Th |-#| 3538,3855 The most sanguine among|st| us trembles to face the future || 3549,3867 |"|Chancellor," only eighteen are || 3549,3867 "Chancellor,|"| only eighteen are left to hudd || 3550,3869 narrow raft; this number includes the five passengers, namely|| M.#Letourneur, Andre, Miss Her |,| 3552,3870 officers, Captain Curtis, Lieutenant Wal||ter, the boatswain,#Hobart the |-#| 3553,3871 Hobart the steward, Jynx||trop the cook, and Dowlas the c |s| 3565,3883 passing vessel. One cask of biscuit, an||other of preserved meat,#a smal |-#| 3572,3891 carpenter's tools, we have each a pocket-||knife, and O'Ready an#old tin p |#| 3573,3892 old tin pot|;| of which he takes the most ten |,| 3581,3901 among|st| us whose courage, moral as wel || 3586,3906 |¶|CHAPTER XXXI.#¶DECEMBER 7th CON || 3587,3906 CHAPTER XXXI|.|#¶DECEMBER 7th CONTINUED.--Our |#FIRST DAY ON THE RAFT| 3589,3909 DECEMBER 7|th CONTINUED.--|Our first day on the raft has p | continued. -- | 3594,3914 when we were on board the |'|Chancellor,' I consider myself || 3594,3914 when we were on board the 'Chancellor,|'| I consider myself your# || 3601,3922 their earnestness, the captain consulted his com||pass, and found#that the freshe |-#| 3625,3949 took the altitude of the sun. The result gave lat. 15||deg. 7min.# | | 3625,3949 took the altitude of the sun. The result gave lat. 15deg. 7|min.|#N. by long. 49deg. 35min. W. a |'| 3626,3949 N. by long. 49||deg. 35min. W. as our position, | | 3626,3949 N. by long. 49deg. 35|min.| W. as our position, which, on# |'| 3627,3950 consulting the chart, proved to be about 650 miles north|-|east of#the coast of Paramaribo || 3630,3953 Now even under the most favo|u|rable circumstances, with trade || 3630,3954 Now even under the most favourable circumstances, with trade-|#|winds and weather always in our || 3631,3954 winds and weather always in our favo|u|r, we cannot by any chance#hope || 3631,3954 winds and weather always in our favour, we can||not by any chance#hope to make | | 3637,3961 French and English |T|ransatlantic steamers either fr |t| 3638,3962 Antilles or the Brazils, we cannot reckon at all upon |such |a#contingency happening in our || 3639,3962 contingency happen||ing in our favour; whilst if a |-#| 3639,3963 contingency happening in our favo|u|r; whilst if a calm should set# || 3639,3963 contingency happening in our favour; whil|st| if a calm should set# |e| 3647,3971 require such labo|u|r as to exhaust our physical st || 3652,3976 As far as we can estimate|,| we have somewhere about 500 lb || 3658,3982 gallons, but by reduc||ing each person's allowance to |-#| 3663,3988 person will then receive his allowance of meat and bis||cuit, which#may be eaten when a |-#| 3665,3990 out twice a day|--|at ten in the morning and six i | -- | 3665,3990 out twice a day--at ten in the morn||ing and six in the evening;#but |-#| 3666,3992 but as the only drinking-vessels in our possession are the tea|-#|kettle and the old Irishman's t || 3668,3993 consumed immediately on distribu||tion. As for the brandy, of#wh |-#| 3683,4009 forewarned by the fate|,| of many who in similar circums || 3685,4011 suggest for hus||banding our stores.#¶¶¶CHAPTER |-#| 3688,4015 |¶|CHAPTER XXXII.#¶DECEMBER 8th to || 3689,4015 CHAPTER XXXII|.|#¶DECEMBER 8th to 17th.--When n |#WE CATCH A SUPPLY OF FISH| 3691,4018 DECEMBER 8|th| to 17th.--When night came we w || 3691,4018 DECEMBER 8th to 17|th.--|When night came we wrapped ours |. -- | 3691,4018 DECEMBER 8th to 17th.--When night came we wrapped our||selves in#our sails. For my ow |-#| 3696,4023 countenance had lately be|en| wearing. The night passed qui |ing| 3701,4029 the swell of the waves would indicate that|;| the wind had dropped,# || 3705,4033 In these low latitudes the heat in the day-time is so in||tense,#and the sun burns with s |-#| 3707,4036 atmosphere becomes pervaded with a glowing vapo|u|r. The wind,# || 3708,4036 too, blows only in fitful gusts|| and through long intervals of# |,| 3710,4038 Curtis and the boatswain, how||ever, are of opinion that we ar |-#| 3715,4044 this is a circumstance that may materially assist our pro||gress,#and at which we can hard |-#| 3720,4049 But with all our hardships I must confess that our con||dition is#far preferable to wha |-#| 3722,4051 |"|Chancellor." Here at least we || 3722,4051 "Chancellor.|"| Here at least we have a compa || 3722,4051 "Chancellor." Here at least we have a com||paratively solid#platform benea |-#| 3723,4052 platform beneath our feet, and we are re||lieved from the incessant#dread |-#| 3725,4054 day|-|time we can move about with a c | | 3726,4056 discuss the weather, watch the sea, and examine our fishing-|#|lines; whilst at night we can r || 3727,4056 lines; whil|st| at night we can rest securely |e| 3735,4065 "Yes, Andre," ||replied, "as long as the wind c |I | 3735,4066 "Yes, Andre," replied, "as long as the wind continues favo|u|rable# || 3736,4066 the raft has decidedly the advantage; but sup||posing the wind#shifts, what th |-#| 3737,4067 shifts|,| what then?"# |;| 3744,4074 nearly all of us are inclined to share his opin||ion.#¶Whether the captain is eq |-#| 3747,4078 holds himself very much aloof, and as he evi||dently feels that he#has the gr |-#| 3755,4088 make a sort of tent, which affords some shelter from the |burning#|sun. On the whole our bill of || 3762,4095 makes his conversation both lively and |entertaining| and as he#talks, his wan and s |in-#teresting,| 3772,4105 only one among|st| us to whom she speaks without || 3774,4107 father, she has told the his||tory of her life--a life of pat |-#| 3774,4108 father, she has told the history of her life|--|a life of patience#and self-den | -- | 3782,4115 toward|s| her in a way that she could de || 3784,4118 The 12th, 13th, and 14th of December passed away with||out any#change in our condition |-#| 3787,4121 the paddle at the back of the raft|| has never once required# |,| 3792,4127 At the end of |a| week we found ourselves growin |the| 3792,4127 At the end of a week we found ourselves growing ac||customed to our#limited diet, a |-#| 3793,4128 limited diet, and as we had no manual exer||tion, and no wear and#tear of o |-#| 3804,4139 almost 200||lbs., some of which were grille | | 3806,4141 marvel|l|ous haul was doubly welcome, in || 3806,4141 marvellous haul was doubly welcome, in||asmuch as it not only#afforded |-#| 3808,4144 stores; if only some rain had fallen at the same time we |sh|ould# |w| 3814,4150 of ||spotted dog-fish, took their pl |the | 3816,4152 Here, on our low raft, we seem|| almost on a level with them, a |ed| 3825,4162 |¶|CHAPTER XXXIII.#¶DECEMBER 18th || 3826,4162 CHAPTER XXXIII|.|#¶DECEMBER 18th to 20th.--On th |#MUTINY ON THE RAFT| 3828,4165 DECEMBER 18|th| to 20th.--On the 18th the wind || 3828,4165 DECEMBER 18th to 20|th.--|On the 18th the wind freshened |. -- | 3829,4166 but as it blew from the same favo|u|rable quarter we did not#compla || 3836,4173 In the afternoon the sky became slightly over||clouded, and the# |-| 3837,4174 heat consequently |somewhat |less oppressive. The swell mad || 3855,4193 however, omit to mention that the frequent con||ferences held#amongst the sailo |-#| 3856,4194 among|st| the sailors, especially betwee || 3857,4195 Wilson, and Jynx||trop, the negro, aroused some u |s| 3858,4196 in my mind. What was the sub||ject of their conversation I co |-#| 3862,4200 in||terviews, and that they had giv |-#| 3863,4202 him determined to keep a strict eye upon Jynx||trop and Owen, who,# |s| 3864,4203 rascals as they were themselves, were evi||dently trying to#disaffect thei |-#| 3871,4211 the sea, but as we were fully aware that the water all ||round was# |a| 3879,4219 fever. Except for the loss of the medicine-||chest we might have#temporarily |#| 3881,4221 that the poor fellow is consump||tive, and that that hopeless#ma |-#| 3883,4223 permanently arrest. His sharp|| dry cough, his short breathing |,| 3885,4226 pinched-in nose, the hollow cheeks, of which the general pallo|u|r#is only relieved by a hectic || 3887,4228 brilliant eye and wasted form|--|all bear witness to a slow but# | -- | 3888,4228 sure de||cay.#¶To-day, the 20th, the tem |-#| 3892,4233 through the shelter of our tent, where we sit literally gasp||ing#with the heat. The impatie |-#| 3894,4235 when the boatswain should dole out our meag|re| allowance of water,#and the ea |er| 3911,4253 "Hush!" she said, with her wonted consideration, "per||haps he#will hear what we are s |-#| 3918,4261 an hour Owen, Flaypole, Burke|,| and Jynxtrop had been engaged || 3918,4261 an hour Owen, Flaypole, Burke, and Jynx||trop had been engaged in# |s| 3927,4271 "That's my business," said the man insolently, and pur||sued his#course.#¶ |-#| 3942,4286 Finding that he obtained no reply, he went on|,--|#¶"Look here, captain, what we |:| 3955,4299 confronting the captain; then, as though thinking bet||ter of#himself, he turned round |-#| 3959,4303 When I was afterward|s| discussing the matter with Cur || 3959,4303 When I was afterwards discussing the matter with Curtis|| I asked#him whether he was sur |,| 3960,4304 him whether he was sure he had done right in re||fusing the brandy.#¶"Right!" h |-#| 3966,4311 |¶|CHAPTER XXXIV.#¶DECEMBER 21st.- || 3967,4311 CHAPTER XXXIV|.|#¶DECEMBER 21st.--No further di |#A SQUALL| 3969,4314 DECEMBER 21|st.--|No further disturbance has take |. -- | 3969,4315 DECEMBER 21st.--No further disturbance has taken place among|st|#the men. For a few hours the || 3972,4317 This addition to our stock of pro||visions makes us hope that food |-#| 3976,4321 ||evening drew on, the wonted fre |the | 3976,4322 evening drew on, the wonted freshness did not return, but the|,|#air remained stifling and oppr || 3977,4322 air remained stifling and oppressive, whil|st| heavy masses of#vapour hung ov |e| 3978,4323 vapo|u|r hung over the water.#¶There w || 3983,4328 illumin||ed the horizon far and wide. T |at| 3985,4330 seemed almost awful|, |For a couple of hours, in the v |.#¶| 3987,4334 sat watching the imposing struggle of the electric vapo|u|rs. The#clouds appeared like e || 3990,4337 with the grandeur of the spectacle, and re||garded attentively,#though with |-#| 3991,4338 though with an anxious eye, the pre||liminary tokens of a coming#sto |-#| 3993,4340 raft, whil|st| the lightning ever and again s |e| 3996,4344 "Are you afraid of a storm|,| Miss Herbey?" said Andre to t |.| 4001,4349 phenomena that we can behold|--|don't you think so too?"# | -- | 4007,4356 |ARTISTE| have never moved me like that |artiste| 4007,4356 ARTISTE have never moved me like that in||comparable voice of#nature."#¶" |-#| 4013,4362 this silent lightning is somewhat unexpressive||"#¶"Never mind that, Andre" I s |.| 4015,4364 "Never mind that, Andre||" I said; "enjoy a storm when i |,| 4028,4379 Mean|tim|e the sky was becoming quite ov |whil| 4028,4379 Meantime the sky was becoming quite over||clouded, and after the# |-| 4031,4382 veiled in dark rolling masses of vapo|u|r, from which every instant# || 4033,4384 background to the dark gr|e|y fragments of cloud that float |a| 4036,4387 |As the reservoir of electricity was confined to the higher strata#of the atmosphere, the lightning was still unaccompanied by#thunder; but the dryness of the air made it a weak conductor.#Evidently the fluid could only escape by terrible shocks, and the#storm must ere long burst forth with fearful violence.#¶This was the opinion of Curtis and the boatswain. The boatswain#is only weather-wise from his experience as a sailor; but Curtis,#in addition to his experience, has some scientific knowledge, and#he pointed out to me an appearance in the sky known to#meteorologists as a "cloud-ring," and scarcely ever seen beyond#the regions of the torrid zone, which are impregnated by damp#vapours brought from all quarters of the ocean by the action of#the trade-winds.#¶"Yes, Mr. Kazallon," said Curtis, "our raft has been driven into#the region of storms, of which it has been justly remarked that#any one endowed with very sensitive organs can at any moment#distinguish the growlings of thunder."#¶"Hark!" I said, as I strained my ears to listen, "I think I can#hear it now."#¶"You can," he answered; "yet what you hear is but the first#warning of the storm which, in a couple of hours, will burst upon#us with all its fury. But never mind, we must be ready for it."#¶|Sleep, even if we wished it, wo || 4064,4389 stifling temperature. The lightning increased in brilliancy|,| and#appeared from all quarters || 4066,4390 large arcs, varying from |100|deg. to 150deg., leaving the#at |l00 | 4066,4390 large arcs, varying from 100deg. to 150||deg., leaving the#atmosphere pe | | 4067,4391 atmosphere pervaded by one incessant phos||phorescent glow.#¶The thunder b |-#| 4076,4402 recognized, all too well, as being the rebound pro||duced by a# |-#| 4078,4404 instantly brought ahull, but no man|oeuv|ring could be applied to# |euve| 4084,4411 horizon was enveloped in a vapo|u|rous fog, and seemed to contrac || 4086,4413 one of the sailors was heard shout|ing,--|#¶"A squall! a squall!"#¶¶¶CHA |-#ing:| 4091,4419 |¶|CHAPTER XXXV.#¶DECEMBER 21st, N || 4092,4419 CHAPTER XXXV|.|#¶DECEMBER 21st, NIGHT.--The bo |#TWO SAILORS WASHED OVERBOARD| 4094,4422 DECEMBER 21|st, NIGHT.--|The boatswain rushed to the hal |, night. -- | 4095,4424 supported the sail, and instantly lowered the yard; |and |not a#moment too soon, for with || 4110,4438 oscillations| |"Lash yourselves tight," cried |.#¶| 4111,4441 threw us some ropes; and in a few moments|,| with Curtis's#assistance, M. L || 4112,4441 assis||tance, M. Letourneur, Andre, Fa |-#| 4112,4442 assistance, M. Letourneur, ||Andre, Falsten, and myself were |and | 4112,4442 assistance, M. Letourneur, Andre, Falsten|,| and myself were#fastened so fi || 4114,4443 dis||ruption could carry us away. M |-#| 4123,4454 times I saw forked lightnings dart upward|s| from the crest of the#waves, a || 4125,4456 above. A strong odo|u|r of sulphur pervaded the air, || 4126,4458 thunderbolts fell thick around us, not one |had |touched our raft.# || 4133,4465 Letourneur placed him||self in front of Andre to shelt |-#| 4133,4466 Letourneur placed himself in front of Andre|| to shelter him from#the waves. |,| 4138,4471 air. This was produced by a series of electrical con||cussions, in#which volleys of h |-#| 4139,4473 which volleys of hailstones were discharged from the cloud-|#|batteries above. In fact, as t || 4142,4475 and hailstones, large as nuts, came pelt||ing down, making the#platform o |-#| 4147,4481 after having shifted from quarter to quar||ter, it once more blew#with all |-#| 4150,4484 from its socket be||fore it should be snapped short |-#| 4150,4485 from its socket before it should be snapped short off.|| One gust#caught away the till |.| 4167,4503 At last, toward|s| three in the morning, when the || 4169,4505 crest of an enormous wave, stood literally per||pendicularly on its#edge. For |-#| 4170,4506 edge. For an instant, by the illumina||tion of the lightning, we#behel |-#| 4171,4507 beheld ourselves raised to an in||comprehensible height above the |-#| 4175,4511 up||heaval was not without its mela |-#| 4175,4513 upheaval was not without its melancholy consequences. ||The cords#that secured the case |¶| 4181,4519 planks of the plat||form, and, unable to disengage |-#| 4182,4521 fellow stood uttering|-|cries of distress.#¶I tried to | | 4185,4524 that was ||round me; but I was too late. |a| 4185,4525 that was round me; but I was too late. ||Another heavy sea dashed#over u |¶| 4191,4532 The same ponderous wave laid me prostrate on the plat||form, and as#my head came in co |-#| 4196,4537 |¶|CHAPTER XXXVI.#¶DECEMBER 22nd.- || 4197,4537 CHAPTER XXXVI|.|#¶DECEMBER 22nd.--Daylight came |#WE LOSE NEARLY ALL OUR PROVISIONS| 4199,4540 DECEMBER 22|nd.--|Daylight came at length, and th |. -- | 4202,4544 but the swoon into which I was thrown by my fall|,| prevented me# || 4204,4546 know is, that shortly after we had shipped the heavy sea|| that I# |,| 4206,4547 severity of the hurri||cane, and tended to diminish th |-#| 4209,4551 Thanks to the kind care of M. Letourneur and Miss Her||bey, I#recovered consciousness, |-#| 4215,4558 hours; but even in that short space of time what an irrepar||able#loss we have sustained, an |-#| 4221,4564 old O'Ready, the survivor of so many ship|| wrecks. Our party is#thus red |-| 4222,4565 thus reduced to sixteen souls, leav||ing a total barely exceeding#ha |-#| 4223,4567 half the number of those who embarked on board the |"|Chancellor"# || 4223,4567 half the number of those who embarked on board the "Chancellor|"|#at Charleston.#¶Curtis's first || 4229,4572 water will not fail us yet, for about four||teen gallons still#remain in th |-#| 4230,4574 remain in the bottom of the broken barrel, whil|st| the second# |e| 4231,4574 barrel has not |yet |been touched. But of food we h || 4238,4582 The day has passed away in silence. A general depres||sion has#fallen upon all: the |-#| 4239,4583 fallen upon all|:| the spectre of famine has app |;| 4239,4583 fallen upon all: the spect|re| of famine has appeared amongst |er| 4239,4584 fallen upon all: the spectre of famine has appeared among|st| us,# || 4244,4589 part of the raft, I heard Flaypole say with a sneer|,--|#¶"Those who are going to die h |:| 4248,4594 "Yes," said Owen, "||leave their share of food to ot |and | 4251,4598 biscuit. Some, I noticed, swallowed it ravenously|,| others#reserved it for another |;| 4258,4606 |¶|CHAPTER XXXVII.#¶DECEMBER 23rd || 4259,4606 CHAPTER XXXVII|.|#¶DECEMBER 23rd to 30th--After |#LIEUTENANT WALTER'S CONDITION| 4261,4609 DECEMBER 23|rd| to 30th--After the storm the w || 4261,4609 DECEMBER 23rd to 30|th--|After the storm the wind settle |. -- | 4262,4611 its old quarter, blowing pretty briskly from the north|-|east. As#the breeze was all in || 4263,4611 the breeze was all in our favo|u|r it was important to make the# || 4263,4611 the breeze was all in our favour it was im||portant to make the#most of it, |-#| 4264,4612 most of it, and after Dowlas had care||fully readjusted the mast,#the |-#| 4270,4618 has been re||paired, the disjointed planks h |-#| 4281,4630 inconvenience; fortunately on the 23|r|d the excessive warmth was# || 4288,4638 entire nervous system, and the con||striction of the stomach#produc |-#| 4294,4644 One alone there was among|st| us who did not feel the pangs || 4297,4647 most torturing thirst|,| Miss Herbey, besides reserving |.| 4299,4649 captain a small extra supply of water|,| with which every quarter# || 4300,4651 of an hour she moistened the parched lips of the young man, who||#almost too weak to speak, coul |,| 4305,4656 On the 23|r|d he seemed to be conscious of || 4308,4660 long I thought he had to live? ||Slight as my hesitation was,#Wa |¶| 4309,4661 Walter noticed it immed||iately.# |-#| 4313,4666 "My dear fellow, I am not a doctor, you know," I be|gan, "|and I#can scarcely judge--"# |-#gan," | 4314,4667 can scarcely judge||--"#¶"Never mind," he interrupt | | 4320,4674 fearfully rapid strides, and it was only too evi||dent that one#lung had already |-#| 4321,4675 lung had already ceased to act, whil|st| the other was scarcely# |e| 4330,4685 "My dear|,|boy," I said, "in our present c | | 4342,4698 began to get accustomed to our condition of star||vation. Often,#when reading th |-#| 4348,4704 the stimulant helps con||siderably to sustain our streng |-#| 4349,4705 had the same pro||visions for two months, or even |-#| 4363,4721 first-rate fish-hooks; but|| one thing I do know, and that |,| 4374,4733 subsistence, it was given up in de||spair.#¶To-day, the 30th, as a |-#| 4377,4737 piece of colo|u|red rag might do by way of attr || 4378,4738 voracious fish, and having obtained from Miss Her||bey a little#piece of the red s |-#| 4382,4742 fixed it. The man was quite dis||couraged at his failure.#¶"But |-#| 4395,4757 |¶|CHAPTER XXXVIII.#¶JANUARY 1st t || 4396,4757 CHAPTER XXXVIII|.|#¶JANUARY 1st to 5th.--More tha |#MUTINY AGAIN| 4398,4760 JANUARY 1|st| to 5th.--More than three month || 4398,4760 JANUARY 1st to 5|th.--|More than three months had elap |. -- | 4399,4761 left Charleston in the |"|Chancellor," and for no less th || 4399,4761 left Charleston in the "Chancellor,|"| and for no less than twenty# || 4402,4764 or whether we were drift||ing farther and farther to sea, |-#| 4403,4765 now impossible to de||termine, for, in addition to th |-#| 4411,4774 hour were our eyes strained toward|s| the horizon, and many and# || 4411,4774 hour were our eyes strained towards the ||horizon, and many and#many a ti |far#| 4415,4778 broke the gr|e|y line that united sea and sky, |a| 4416,4779 remained the cent|re| of the wide and dreary waste.# |er| 4418,4782 On the 1st of January|| we swallowed our last morsel o |,| 4419,4783 The |1|st of January! New Year's Day! |fir| 4423,4788 at one another, and breathe a |new y|ear's greeting?# |New Y| 4428,4793 "You are surely not going to wish me a happy |new y|ear?" I said.#¶"No indeed, sir |New#Y| 4438,4805 light. Toward|s| evening I was seized with viol || 4441,4808 passed away, and on the 3|r|d I was surprised to find that || 4445,4812 was swim||ming with giddiness, as though |-#| 4449,4817 endured the most frightful tortures. Dow||las and the boatswain#especiall |-#| 4452,4820 ropes to subdue the excru||ciating pain that was gnawing t |-#| 4455,4823 And this was only the second day of our misery! |w|hat would we#not have given for |W| 4456,4825 not have given for half, nay, for a quarter of the meag|re| ration# |er| 4457,4825 which a few days back we |had |deemed so inadequate to supply || 4457,4825 which a few days back we had deemed so inade||quate to supply our#wants, and |-#| 4465,4834 fragment of food that the wind ||carried into their interstices |has | 4465,4834 fragment of food that the wind carried into the|ir| interstices has# || 4466,4835 been scraped out ||devoured, our resources are lit |and | 4466,4835 been scraped out devoured, our resources are litera|r|y at an end.#¶The nights seem e |ll| 4469,4839 brings no relief; it is rather a feverish stupo|u|r, broken and#disturbed by frig || 4471,4841 by fatigue, I managed to rest for sev||eral hours.#¶At six o'clock thi |-#| 4474,4846 voices, and, starting up, I saw Owen and Jynx||trop, with Flaypole,# |s| 4476,4847 They had taken posses||sion of the carpenter's tools, |-#| 4479,4851 in a moment to Curtis's party. Falsten followed my ex||ample, and#although our knives |-#| 4483,4856 Owen and his men advanced toward|s| us. The miserable wretches# || 4485,4858 the brandy-barrel, and had recklessly swal||lowed its contents.#What they w |-#| 4487,4860 Jynx||trop, not quite so much intoxic |s| 4487,4860 Jynxtrop, not quite so much intox||icated as the rest; seemed to b |-#| 4487,4861 Jynxtrop, not quite so much intoxicated as the rest|;| seemed to be#urging them on to |,| 4501,4875 Curtis|'| pushed aside the excited rasca || 4510,4884 "Owen," said the captain once|,| again, "down with your arms!"# || 4512,4887 "Come on, all|,|of you," shouted Owen to his co | | 4516,4891 defended himself with a piece of |a |spar; Burke and Flaypole# || 4517,4892 rushed upon Falsten and the boatswain, whil|st| I was left to#confront the neg |e| 4518,4893 confront the negro Jynx||trop, who attempted to strike m |s| 4519,4895 hammer which he brandished in his hand. I endeavo|u|red to# || 4522,4897 m|oment|s, I felt that he was getting t |inute| 4522,4898 moments, I felt that he was getting the mastery over me|| when all# |,| 4524,4899 him. Andre Letour||neur had caught hold of one of |-#| 4525,4901 thus saved my life. Jynx||trop dropped his weapon in his |s| 4532,4908 he was preparing to strike |at |Owen. But Owen made a sidelong || 4534,4910 the chest. The unfor||tunate man rolled over the side |-#| 4535,4911 and instantly dis||appeared.#¶"Save him! save him |-#| 4539,4916 "It's too late; he's dead!||" said Dowlas.# | | 4541,4918 "Ah, well! he'll do for||--" began the boatswain; but he | | 4544,4921 Wilson's death, however, put an end to the fray. Flay||pole and#Burke were lying prost |-#| 4545,4922 Burke were lying prostrate in a drunken stupo|u|r, and Jynxtrop was# || 4545,4923 Burke were lying prostrate in a drunken stupour, and Jynx||trop was# |s| 4547,4924 The carpenter and |the |boatswain seized hold of Owen.# || 4560,4940 |¶|CHAPTER XXXIX.#¶JANUARY 5th and || 4561,4940 CHAPTER XXXIX|.|#¶JANUARY 5th and 6th.--The who |#A FATHER'S LOVE| 4563,4943 JANUARY 5|th| and 6th.--The whole scene made || 4563,4943 JANUARY 5th and 6|th.--|The whole scene made a deep imp |. -- | 4563,4943 JANUARY 5th and 6th.--The whole scene made a deep impres||sion on#our minds, and Owen's s |-#| 4572,4952 "Do you thank me for that|;| Mr. Kazallon?" he said; "it h |,| 4579,4959 never deserts her|,| and although her torn and bedr |;| 4579,4959 never deserts her, and although her torn and be||draggled garments#float dejecte |-#| 4586,4966 "Yes|;| Miss Herbey, I do," I replied |,| 4586,4966 "Yes; Miss Herbey, I do," I replied|| in a hard, cold tone.# |,| 4596,4977 "Yes; but they have one consolation|;| they die the soonest;" I# | --| 4596,4977 "Yes; but they have one consolation; they die the soon|est;|" I#replied coldly.# |-#est,| 4597,4978 replied|| coldly.# |,| 4599,4980 Had every spark of humanity died out of my breast|| that I thus# |,| 4600,4981 brought the girl face to face with the terrible truth|| without a#word of hope or comf |,| 4605,4986 Afterward|s|, when we were quite alone, Mis || 4606,4987 would grant her a favo|u|r.#¶"Certainly, Miss Herbey; an || 4612,4995 probably die first. Promise me that, if I do, you will throw m|y#body| into the sea."#¶"Oh, Miss Herb |e| 4613,4995 body into the sea|.|"#¶"Oh, Miss Herbey," I began, |!| 4620,5002 long as I am alive, but when I am dead|--" s|he stopped and#shuddered. "Oh, | --"#S| 4621,5004 shuddered. "Oh, promise me that you will throw me into|,| the# || 4624,5006 I gave her the melancholy promise, which she acknowl||edged by#pressing my hand feebl |-#| 4630,5012 was surprised to find my|;| companions still alive.# || 4636,5020 round his lips; he goes about with his eyes half|-|closed, as# | | 4638,5022 altogether false and hypocritical about his whole demeano|u|r. I#cannot say that he bears || 4644,5029 watch him carefully. ||To-day, the 6th, M. Letourneur |¶| 4645,5031 aside to the stern of the raft, saying |that |he had a secret to# || 4648,5033 the raft|;| and, as it was growing dusk, n |,| 4651,5036 "Mr. Kazallon," M. Letourneur began|| in a low voice, "Andre is# |,| 4652,5037 dying of hunger|:| he is growing weaker and weak |;| 4653,5038 cannot, will not|| see him die!"# |,| 4655,5040 He spoke passionately, almost fiercely, and I fully under||stood#his feelings. Taking his |-#| 4658,5043 "We will not despair yet," I said|,| "perhaps some passing ship--"# |;| 4658,5043 "We will not despair yet," I said, "perhaps some pass||ing ship--"#¶"Ship!" he cried |-#| 4658,5044 "We will not despair yet," I said, "perhaps some passing ship||--"#¶"Ship!" he cried impatien | | 4660,5046 "Ship!" he cried|| impatiently, "don't try to con |,| 4663,5049 suddenly, he asked|,--|"How long is it since my son an |: | 4675,5062 "What do you want me to do?" I asked|| at length.# |,| 4677,5064 "Hush! not so loud; some| |one will hear us," he said, Tow || 4677,5064 "Hush! not so loud; some one will hear us," he said, |Tow|ering#his voice, "I want you to |low-#| 4678,5065 his voice|,| "I want you to offer it to And |;| 4681,5068 this service|| and for your trouble," and her |;| 4681,5068 this service and for your trouble," ||and here he gently stroked my#h |--#| 4682,5069 hand|,| "for your trouble you shall ha | --| 4684,5073 I trembled like a child as I listened to the poor father's words|,|#and my heart was ready to burs |;| 4689,5077 him; but do not let any| |one see you; the monsters would || 4690,5078 you if they knew it|.| This is only for to-day; I wi |!| 4690,5078 you if they knew it. This is only for to-||day; I will give you#some more |#| 4693,5081 The poor fellow did not trust me|,| and well he might not, for I# | --| 4693,5081 The poor fellow did not trust me, and well he might not|,| for I#had the greatest difficu |#--| 4694,5082 had the greatest difficulty to withstand the tempta||tion to carry#the biscuit to my |-#| 4695,5083 the biscuit to my mouth|,| But I resisted the impulse, an |.| 4698,5087 Night came on with the rapidity peculiar to these low lati||tudes,#and I glided gently up t |-#| 4699,5088 and I glided gently up to Andre|| and slipped the piece of biscu |,| 4700,5090 into his hand as "a present from myself." ||The young man clutched#at it ea |¶| 4703,5093 "But my father?" he said|| inquiringly.# |,| 4706,5096 that he must eat this now, and|,| perhaps, I should be able to# || 4706,5096 that he must eat this now, and, perhaps|,| I should be able to# || 4714,5104 |¶|CHAPTER XL.#¶JANUARY 7th.--Duri || 4715,5104 CHAPTER XL|.|#¶JANUARY 7th.--During the last |#DEATH OF LIEUTENANT WALTER| 4717,5107 JANUARY 7|th.--|During the last few days since |. -- | 4717,5107 JANUARY 7th.--During the last few days|| since the wind has#freshened, |,| 4720,5110 Owen, whom the boatswain ever since the revolt ||kept bound to the#mast, is in a |has#| 4721,5111 mast, is in a deplorable state, and|| at our request has been# |,| 4721,5112 mast, is in a deplorable state, and at our request|| has been# |,| 4725,5115 we have not|;| all shared the same inconvenie || 4727,5118 To||day the boatswain, maddened by |-| 4730,5121 of wood, instinctively endeavo|u|ring to fill his stomach by# || 4731,5122 putting the mucus|'| into circulation at length, by || 4731,5122 putting the mucus' into circulation| a|t length, by dint of an# |. A| 4734,5125 devoured it greedily|, and| as it was animal matter, it re |; and,| 4736,5127 some temporary relief. In||stantly we all followed his exa |-#| 4740,5131 human|,| the impulses and instincts of |#--| 4745,5137 with violent nausea or absolute sick||ness. I must be pardoned for#g |-#| 4746,5138 giving these distressing de||tails, but how otherwise can I |-#| 4746,5139 giving these distressing details|,| but how otherwise can I depict |;| 4751,5144 The conduct of Hobart|| during the scene that I have j |,| 4751,5145 The conduct of Hobart during the scene that I have just described||#has only served to confirm my |,| 4754,5147 at our scraps of leather|, and| although by his conduct and# |; and,| 4754,5148 at our scraps of leather, and although by his conduct |and|#perpetual groanings, he might |of| 4758,5151 the hypocrite is being sustained|,| by some secret store of food, || 4762,5155 our allowance of water is very meag|re|, at present the pangs of# |er| 4766,5159 cannot, dare not, believe it. For||tunately, the broken barrel#sti |-#| 4780,5174 Before he died, in a few broken words|| he thanked Miss Herbey and# |,| 4783,5177 weakness, he said|,--|#¶"It is my mother's letter: t | :| 4785,5179 "It is my mother's letter|:| the last I had from her--she |;| 4785,5179 "It is my mother's letter: the last I had from her|--|she was#expecting me home; but | -- | 4787,5181 my lips|--|let me kiss it before I die. M | -- | 4787,5182 my lips--let me kiss it before I die. Mother! mother! Oh|| my#God!"#¶I placed the letter |,| 4791,5186 his eye lighted for a moment; we heard the faint sound of a kiss|,|#and all was over!#¶¶¶CHAPTER X |;| 4795,5189 |¶|CHAPTER XLI.#¶JANUARY 8th.--All || 4796,5189 CHAPTER XLI|.|#¶JANUARY 8th.--All night I rem |#HUMAN FLESH FOR BAIT| 4798,5192 JANUARY 8|th.--|All night I remained by the sid |. -- | 4802,5196 Before daylight dawned|| the body was quite cold, and a |,| 4808,5203 one should see what we were about, Curtis and I pro||ceeded to our#melancholy task. |-#| 4812,5208 garments that would have to suffice for his winding|-|sheet, I# | | 4814,5209 leaving the leg a bleeding stump|!|#¶No doubt that, overcome by fa |.| 4819,5214 guilty of so fo|w|l a deed! Curtis looked around |u| 4819,5214 guilty of so fowl a deed|!| Curtis looked around with ang |?| 4820,5215 flashing |I|n his eye; but all seemed as us |i| 4831,5227 I turned round quickly, and found that it was Jynx||trop who had# |s| 4838,5234 "Oh|| yes, I dare say," he replied, |,| 4838,5234 "Oh yes, I dare say," he replied|,| in a significant tone "and# || 4838,5234 "Oh yes, I dare say," he replied, in a significant tone|| "and#perhaps they thought they |,| 4849,5245 Toward|s| eleven o'clock, a most suspici || 4849,5245 Towards eleven o'clock|,| a most suspicious incident occ || 4853,5249 Scarcely had he hauled them on board|,| when the sailors made a# || 4854,5250 dash at them, and it was with the utmost dif||ficulty that Curtis,#Falsten, a |-#| 4855,5251 Falsten|,| and myself could restore order || 4856,5253 the fish into equal portions. Three cod were not much among|st|#fourteen starving persons, but || 4859,5256 raw, almost I might say, alive; only Curtis, Andre|| and Miss# |,| 4862,5258 my||self, I confess that I swallowe |-#| 4862,5259 myself, I confess that I swallowed my portion of fish |just |as it#was,--raw and bleeding. || 4863,5259 was|,--|raw and bleeding. M. Letourneu |#-- | 4868,5265 The boatswain's delight at his success was|,| excessive, and# || 4869,5266 amounted almost to delirium. I went up to him, and en||couraged#him to repeat his atte |-#| 4874,5271 "And why not try at once|,|" I asked.# |?| 4883,5281 "Oh|!| I had some very good bait las |,| 4883,5282 "Oh! I had some very good bait last night," he said. ||I stared#at him in amazement. |¶| 4889,5288 "Yes!" he almost whispered|| and left me without another wo |,| 4891,5291 Our meal, meag|re| as it had been, served to rall |er| 4891,5291 Our meal, meagre as it had been, served to rally our shat||tered#energies; our hopes were |-#| 4895,5296 One evidence of the degree to which our spirits were re||vived was#that our minds were n |-#| 4898,5299 and M. Letourneur, Andre|| Mr. Falsten, and I held a long |,| 4898,5299 and M. Letourneur, Andre Mr. Fal|sten,| and I held a long#conversation |-#sten| 4898,5300 and M. Letourneur, Andre Mr. Falsten, and I|| held a long#conversation with |,| 4900,5302 eventful voyage, speaking of our lost companions, of the fire, o|f|#the stranding of the ship, of |r| 4909,5311 "An unlucky number!" said Andre|| with a mournful smile.# |,| 4912,5315 the raft, and, unwilling to trust them to any| |one else, remained#watching the || 4927,5330 "No more," he said. Then grasping my arm|| he added, "and that# |,| 4934,5338 |¶|CHAPTER XLII.#¶JANUARY 9th and || 4935,5338 CHAPTER XLII|.|#¶JANUARY 9th and 10th.--On the |#OXIDE OF COPPER POISONING| 4937,5341 JANUARY 9|th and 10th.--|On the 9th the wind dropped, an | and10. -- | 4948,5353 action of the hot air we breathed. At my urgent solicitation|| the#captain was for once induc |,| 4953,5357 the barrel|,| though kept covered by a sail, || 4962,5367 this globe of ours had veritably be||come a liquid sphere!#¶To-day w |-#| 4966,5372 like fire. The torments of famine are all forgotten|:| our#thoughts are concentrated |;| 4969,5375 of lukewarm water that makes up our ration. O|| for one good#draught, even if |h| 4974,5380 round|| I saw Owen writhing in the mos |,| 4975,5381 went toward|s| him, for, detestable as his co || 4975,5381 went towards him, for, detestable as his con||duct had been, common#humanity |-#| 4979,5384 |¶|The man was up in the mast, and || 4986,5391 cries and stood erect. It was quite true that in the direc||tion#indicated by Flaypole ther |-#| 4992,5397 furrowed, and he contracted every fea||ture, as with half-closed#eyes, |-#| 4993,5398 eyes|,| he concentrated his power of v || 4994,5399 spot in the far|-|off horizon.# | | 5008,5414 tetanus. His throat was contracted by re||peated spasms, his#tongue was p |-#| 5011,5417 precisely such as to lead us to sus||pect that he had taken some#cor |-#| 5019,5426 exclaimed|,--|#¶"No! no! no! of that water |:| 5024,5431 endeavo|u|red to explain; but all in vain || 5028,5435 previous suspicions|--|that he had been poisoned by ox | -- | 5029,5437 copper. We now felt convinced that any effort|s| on our part to# || 5037,5445 The ill| |fated wretch had stolen several |-| 5041,5450 |¶|CHAPTER XLIII.#¶JANUARY 11th to || 5042,5450 CHAPTER XLIII|.|#¶JANUARY 11th to 14th.--Owen's |#OWEN'S DEATH| 5044,5453 JANUARY 11|th| to 14th.--Owen's convulsions r || 5044,5453 JANUARY 11th to 14|th.--|Owen's convulsions returned wit |. -- | 5044,5453 JANUARY 11th to 14th.--Owen's convulsions returned with in||creased#violence, and in the co |-#| 5046,5456 agony. His body was thrown overboard almost directly|;| it had# |,| 5048,5457 enough for any fragments of it to be re||served for the boatswain#to use |-#| 5052,5462 And now, perhaps|,| still more than ever, did the || 5055,5466 what strange fatality had converted it into a water|-|cask, or what# | | 5058,5468 did it matter now|:| the fact was evident; the bar |;| 5058,5468 did it matter now: the fact was evi|dent;| the barrel was#poisoned, and o |-#dent --| 5063,5474 not require a word|,| a mere look or gesture was eno | --| 5063,5474 not require a word, a mere look or gesture was enough|,| to provoke#us to anger that wa |#--| 5065,5476 did not all become raving maniacs, I can||not tell.#¶Throughout the 12th |-#| 5070,5482 have registered at least 100||deg., and, perhaps, considerabl | | 5070,5482 have registered at least 100deg., and|, perhaps,| considerably#more.#¶No change | per-#haps| 5077,5489 water that surrounds us could be reduced to vapo|u|r or to ice!#its particles of s || 5081,5494 At the risk of being devoured by the sharks, the boat||swain and#two sailors took a mo |-#| 5083,5496 |re|fresh them, I and three of my c || 5083,5496 refresh|| them, I and three of my compan |en| 5083,5496 refresh them, I and three of my com||panions resolved to follow#thei |-#| 5084,5498 their example. We had never learn|t| to swim, and had to be# |ed| 5085,5499 fastened to the end of a rope and lowered into the water|;| while# |,| 5086,5499 Curtis|| during the half-hour of our ba |,| 5086,5499 Curtis during the half|-|hour of our bath, kept a sharp |#| 5086,5500 Curtis during the half-hour of our bath, kept a sharp look|-|out to#give warning of any dang || 5088,5501 recommenda||tion, however, on our part, nor |-#| 5093,5507 in my ear|,--|#¶"Don't say a word, Mr. Kazall |:| 5099,5513 should have raised an involuntary shout of joy; as it was|,| I had#the greatest difficulty || 5106,5521 and there, although mine |i|s not a nautical eye, I could p |wa| 5117,5535 turned to the horizon. There, most undeniably, was the ship, |and|#the question rose at once to t |but| 5123,5540 taking. Curtis was far more deliberate in his judg||ment. After#examining her atte |-#| 5125,5542 running close upon the wind, on the star||board tack, If she keeps#her co |-#| 5125,5543 running close upon the wind, on the starboard tack|,| If she keeps#her course for a |.| 5127,5544 track||."#¶A couple of hours! The wor |s| 5133,5550 she felt a breeze, she would r|esume| her larboard tack and make#awa |‚sum‚| 5134,5552 away again. On the other hand, if she w|ere| really sailing with# |as| 5140,5557 the east of us, so that it was out of the ques||tion to think of#any cries of o |-#| 5142,5560 that every possible signal should be made. We had no fire|-|arms# || 5145,5562 as being of a colo|u|r most distinguishable against || 5145,5562 as being of a colour most distin||guishable against the backgroun |-#| 5148,5565 water. As a drown||ing man clutches at a straw, so |-#| 5153,5570 The ship was evidently making her way in the di||rection of the#raft, but every |-#| 5162,5580 give years of our life to know the result of the coming hour|!|#¶At half-past twelve the capta |.| 5164,5582 At half|-|past twelve the captain and the | | 5164,5582 At half-past twelve the captain and the boatswain con||sidered that#the brig was about |-#| 5170,5589 to the direction of the wind|| I tried to make out some chanc |,| 5182,5600 exclaimed, in accents of despair|,--|#¶"She's putting about!"# |:| 5186,5604 All started up|:| some to their knees, others t | --| 5186,5604 All started up: some to their knees, others to their feet|,| The#boatswain dropped a fright |.| 5190,5608 would be lost in the intense irradiation of the sun||beams. If#only we could be see |-#| 5194,5612 been within |the |range of sight.# || 5202,5621 tall column of dusky fumes was rising straight upward|s| in the# || 5204,5622 out of view, the flames|| we hoped might still be visibl |,| 5208,5627 confidence|--|all vanished from my mind, and | -- | 5208,5627 confidence--all vanished from my mind, and|| like the boatswain, I#swore lo |,| 5214,5634 Meanwhile the brig had altered her t||ack, and was moving slowly to# |r| 5219,5639 |¶|CHAPTER XLIV.#¶JANUARY 15th.--A || 5220,5639 CHAPTER XLIV|.|#¶JANUARY 15th.--After this fur |#THE DEPTHS OF DESPAIR| 5222,5642 JANUARY 15|th.--|After this further shattering o |. -- | 5222,5642 JANUARY 15th.--After this further shattering of our ex||cited hopes#death alone now sta |-#| 5222,5643 JANUARY 15th.--After this further shattering of our excited hopes||#death alone now stares us in t |,| 5224,5644 death may be, sooner or later it must in||evitably come.#¶To-day some clo |-#| 5227,5648 puffs of wind; and in spite of our prostration, we ap||preciate the#moderation, slight |-#| 5229,5650 throat the air seemed a little less trying|| but it is now seven# |;| 5231,5652 period we ha|ve| eaten nothing even Andre Letou |d| 5231,5652 period we have eaten nothing|| even Andre Letourneur finished |;| 5232,5653 yesterday|| the last morsel of the biscuit |,| 5233,5654 self-denying father had |en|trusted to my charge.#¶Jynxtrop |in-#| 5235,5657 Jynx|trop| the negro has broken loose fro |strop,| 5235,5657 Jynxtrop the negro|| has broken loose from his conf |,| 5235,5657 Jynxtrop the negro has broken loose from his confine||ment, but#Curtis has taken no m |-#| 5242,5666 rapidly with their great black fins. The monsters came ||close up# |up | 5242,5666 rapidly with their great black fins. The monsters came close |up#|to the edge of the raft, and Fl || 5245,5669 could not help regarding them as living sepulch|re|s, which ere# |er| 5246,5670 long might swallow up our miserable carcas||es; yet, withal, I# |s| 5247,5670 profess that my feelings were |rather |those of fascination than of# || 5247,5671 profess that my feelings were rather those of fascination ||than of# |rather | 5247,5671 profess that my feelings were rather those of fascination than |of#|horror.#¶The boatswain, who sto || 5266,5690 was secured to the rope, which, in its turn|,| was tightly fastened# || 5269,5693 With eager, almost breathless, excitement we stood watch||ing the#preparations, at the sa |-#| 5272,5697 ready the boatswain began to think about bait|;| and, talking# |,| 5275,5699 But his search ended in noth||ing; and the only plan that sug |-#| 5277,5701 which a frag||ment was wrapped round the head |-#| 5277,5702 which a fragment was wrapped ||round the head of the hammer. |a| 5278,5703 testing the strength of his line, and reassuring|-|himself that it# | | 5287,5712 to disappear|,| They could not, however, have |.| 5287,5712 to disappear, They could not, how||ever, have gone far away, and i |-#| 5288,5713 was not likely that any||thing in the shape of bait drop |-#| 5312,5739 Again he applied himself to his task. The whirl ||again was#lowered, this time to |was#| 5312,5740 Again he applied himself to his task. The whirl again |was#|lowered, this time to the depth || 5314,5741 an hour or more not a shark could be distin||guished; but as the#waters far |-#| 5321,5749 the iron had made good its hold upon the crea||ture's flesh.#¶"Now, then, my l |-#| 5328,5757 say th|at th|ey were willing enough) to brin || 5328,5758 say that they were willing enough) to bring it to the surface|,| At#length, after exertions tha |.| 5331,5760 and looking down I saw the huge carcas|e| of the shark writhing#convulsi |s| 5332,5761 convulsively amid|st| waves that were stained with b || 5334,5764 "Steady! steady!" said the boatswain, as the head ap||peared#above.# |-#| 5335,5765 above|.|#¶The whirl had passed right th || 5337,5767 The whirl had passed right through the jaw into the mid||dle of the#throat; so that no s |-#| 5338,5768 throat|;| so that no struggle on the par |,| 5338,5768 throat; so that no struggle on the part of the ani||mal could#possibly release it. |-#| 5339,5769 possibly release it. Dowlas seized |his| hatchet, ready to# |the| 5340,5770 d|e|spatch the brute the moment if |i| 5340,5770 despatch the brute the moment i|f| should be landed on the raft. |t| 5345,5776 A howl of despair burst from all our lips. All the labo|u|r and#the patience, all had bee || 5350,5781 might have been ex||pected) these only slipped over |-#| 5354,5785 at||traction.#¶Reduced once again t |-#| 5357,5789 places, to await the end that can||not now be long deferred.# | | 5359,5793 Just as I moved away I heard the boatswain say to Curtis|,--|#¶"Captain, when shall we draw |:| 5366,5800 |¶|CHAPTER XLV.#¶JANUARY 16th.--If || 5367,5800 CHAPTER XLV|.|#¶JANUARY 16th.--If the crew of |#OUR THIRST RELIEVED| 5369,5803 JANUARY 16|th.--|If the crew of any passing vess |. -- | 5376,5810 whether I could have swallowed it. So ex||asperated were the#feelings of |-#| 5379,5813 delay eat up one an||other.#¶The heat was aggravated |-#| 5381,5816 The heat was aggravated by the atmosphere being some||what stormy.#Heavy vapours gath |-#| 5382,5817 Heavy vapo|u|rs gathered on the horizon, and || 5384,5819 turned involuntarily toward|s| the clouds, and M. Letourneur, || 5388,5824 It was eleven o'clock in the morning. I listened for dis||tant#rumblings which might anno |-#| 5390,5826 the vapo|u|rs had obstructed the sun's ray || 5395,5831 gr|e|y tint; in fact, we were envelo |a| 5402,5839 there at least |the |rain was falling. I fancied I || 5404,5842 fresh and bringing the cloud right on toward|s| us, yet we could# || 5405,5843 not suppress our trepidation lest it|;| should exhaust itself# || 5408,5845 But no|:| very soon large heavy drops b |;| 5420,5858 ecstasy with which I imbibed that renovat||ing moisture. The#parched and |-#| 5424,5864 The rain lasted about twenty minutes, when the cloud, |still |only# || 5427,5866 We grasped each other's hands as we rose from the plat||form on#which we had been lying |-#| 5428,5867 which we had been lying, and mutual congratula||tions, mingled with#gratitude, |-#| 5434,5874 The next consideration was how to preserve and econo||mize what#little had been colle |-#| 5436,5877 outspread sails. It was found that only a few pints of rain-|#|water had fallen into the barre || 5437,5877 water had fallen into the barrel|| to this small quantity the#sai |;| 5442,5882 "Stop, stop!" he said|,| "we must wait a moment; we mus || 5447,5887 the folds of a sail into |the| tin pot, and put it to his lip |a| 5453,5893 water that fell upon it. Dis||appointed we were; but with sev |-#| 5458,5899 |¶|CHAPTER XLVI.#¶JANUARY 17th.--A || 5459,5899 CHAPTER XLVI|.|#¶JANUARY 17th.--As a natural c |#MY FAST IS BROKEN| 5461,5902 JANUARY 17|th.--|As a natural consequence of the |. -- | 5461,5902 JANUARY 17th.--As a natural consequence of the allevia||tion of our#thirst, the pangs o |-#| 5462,5903 thirst, the pangs of hunger returned more vio||lently than ever.#Although we h |-#| 5466,5907 that were still per||petually swarming about the raf |-#| 5469,5910 ex||pressed his willingness persona |-#| 5478,5920 hopeful, whil|st| for getting food there appeare |e| 5484,5926 re||duced our feelings.#¶Ever since |-#| 5490,5933 brings by modifying the tempera|ture| we care little now for any#bre |-#ture,| 5493,5936 from what direc||tion the wind may blow if only |-#| 5496,5940 |The moon was entering her last quarter, so that it was dark till#nearly midnight, and the stars were misty, not glowing with that#lustre which is so often characteristic of cool nights. Half#frantic with that sense of hunger which invariably returns with#redoubled vigour at the close of every day, I threw myself, in a#kind of frenzy, upon a bundle of sails that was lying on the#starboard of the raft, and leaning over, I tried to get some#measure of relief by inhaling the moist coolness that rarely#fails to circulate just above the water. My brain was haunted by#the| most horrible nightmares; not |My brain is haunted by| 5505,5941 the most horrible nightmares; not that I suppose I |was| in any way#more distressed tha |am| 5505,5941 the most horrible nightmares; not that I suppose I was in any| |way#more distressed than my com || 5506,5942 more distressed than my companions, who |we|re lying in their usual#places, |a| 5507,5943 places, vainly endeavo|u|ring to forget their sufferings || 5511,5948 could hardly say, but at length a strange sensation |half |brought# || 5513,5949 unaccustomed odo|u|r floating in the air? My nost || 5516,5952 with the puzzled sen||sation sometimes experienced wh |-#| 5518,5955 elapsed before another still more savo|u|ry puff induced me to take# || 5519,5957 several long inhalations. Suddenly, the truth seemed to |d|ash#across my mind. "Surely," |fl| 5520,5957 across my mind. "Surely," I muttered to myself|| "this must be#cooked meat that |,| 5523,5960 Again and again I sniffed|| and became more convinced than |,| 5526,5963 satisfied myself that the odo|u|r came from the front, I crept# || 5529,5966 vision, like a blood||hound in the track of his prey, |-#| 5529,5967 vision, like a bloodhound in t|he t|rack of his prey, I searched#ev || 5529,5967 vision, like a bloodhound in the track of his prey|,| I searched#everywhere I could, |.| 5532,5970 I got the true scent|;| once for all, so that I could |,| 5536,5974 conclusion that the smell that had thus keenly ex||cited my#cravings was the smell |-#| 5537,5975 cravings was the smell of smoked bacon; the mem||branes of my#tongue almost bris |-#| 5540,5980 Crawling along a little farther, under a thick roll of sail-|#|cloth, I was not long in securi || 5542,5981 the roll, I felt my hand in contact with some||thing wrapped up in#paper. I c |-#| 5551,5991 screaming out| o|ne instant more, and I found my |. O| 5554,5994 In a moment I understood all. Plainly this rascal Ho||bart had#saved some provision f |-#| 5555,5995 saved some provision|| from the wreck, upon which he |s| 5556,5996 subsisting ever since. The steward had pro||vided for himself,#whilst all a |-#| 5557,5997 whil|st| all around him were dying of s |e| 5568,6010 violent, it was very noise||less. We were both of us aware |-#| 5568,6012 violent, it was very noiseless. ||We were both of us aware that i |¶| 5569,6013 was absolutely neces||sary that not one of those on b |-#| 5576,6022 threw him on his back, and grasping his throat so that |it| gurgled# |he| 5577,6022 again, I held him down until, in rapid mouth||fuls, I had swallowed#up the la |-#| 5578,6023 |up |the last scrap of the food for || 5586,6032 |¶|CHAPTER XLVII.#¶JANUARY 18th.-- || 5587,6032 CHAPTER XLVII|.|#¶JANUARY 18th.--After this exc |#HOBART HANGS HIMSELF| 5589,6035 JANUARY 18|th.--|After this excitement I awaited |. -- | 5589,6035 JANUARY 18th.--After this excitement I awaited the ap||proach of#day with a strange an |-#| 5591,6037 had the right to denounce me in the pres||ence of all my fellow-#passenge |-#| 5591,6038 had the right to denounce me in the presence of all my fellow-|#|passengers; yet my alarm was va || 5595,6041 revealed that, un||known to them, he had been livi |-#| 5600,6047 as it was it had alleviated my hunger|,| and I was now tortured# |;| 5601,6049 with remorse, because I had not shared the meag|re| morsel with my# |er| 5603,6050 forgotten, and from the bot||tom of my heart I repented of m |-#| 5610,6058 first blush of day I had labo|u|red under the impression that I || 5615,6063 rays of the sun fall |full |upon it than I saw at once that || 5620,6068 just as I had guessed, Hobart had hanged him||self. I could not for#a moment; |-#| 5621,6069 a moment|;| doubt that it was I myself tha || 5626,6075 any spark|| of life remained? No, indeed; |s| 5633,6083 Andre|| nor his father, consent to all |,| 5636,6086 --||Falsten, Dowlas, the boatswain, | | 5636,6087 --Falsten, Dowlas, the boatswain, and all the rest,|--|I know that,# | -- | 5643,6094 enough to hear|;| without witnessing the appalli |,| 5645,6096 preventing Andre from rushing out upon the can||nibals, and#snatching the odiou |-#| 5649,6100 it. Hobart had not been mur||dered; he had died by his own h |-#| 5650,6102 and, after all, as the boatswain had once remarked to me, "|i|t was# |I| 5658,6110 ourselves dying of starvation, whil|st| our eight companions would# |e| 5658,6110 ourselves dying of starvation, whilst our eight com||panions would#probably, by thei |-#| 5661,6113 the strongest among|st| us; he had been supported, so || 5669,6122 possibility of obtaining salt by evaporating sea|-|water in the# || 5677,6130 they are no longer hungry|!#¶|¶¶CHAPTER XLVIII.# |.#| 5681,6133 CHAPTER XLVIII|.|#¶JANUARY 19th.--All through th |#HOBART'S BODY STOLEN| 5683,6136 JANUARY 19|th.--|All through the day the sky rem |. -- | 5683,6136 JANUARY 19th.--All through the day the sky remained un||clouded and#the heat intense; a |-#| 5686,6139 sleep, and, toward|s| morning, was disturbed by hear || 5686,6139 sleep, and, towards morning, was dis||turbed by hearing an angry#clam |-#| 5687,6140 clamo|u|r going on outside the tent; it || 5688,6141 Andre|| and Miss Herbey, as much as my |,| 5693,6147 the stern, was |vainly |endeavouring to pacify them.# || 5693,6147 the stern, was vainly endeavo|u|ring to pacify them.# || 5701,6156 "I haven't taken it!" "Nor I!|" "|Nor I!" cried the sailors one# | | 5707,6162 search proved fruitless.||#¶"Can YOU tell us," said the b |"| 5714,6169 And while we were speaking the others all came up to||gether, and#told me that they h |-#| 5718,6174 "Shame!" I said. "You ought to allow those whom you know to |h|e#dying of hunger at least to d |b| 5723,6179 voice which he was endeavo|u|ring to calm down into moderati || 5729,6186 |a |going to search the tent."# || 5735,6192 the sake of his son, for whom he was ready to ven||ture anything,#M. Letourneur ha |-#| 5737,6194 nothing would have prevented the in||furiated men from tearing the#d |-#| 5744,6202 doubt that the carcas|e| of the suicide had been thrown |s| 5747,6206 Yet who had ventured to do the deed|!| I looked at M. Letourneur# |?| 5754,6214 |¶|CHAPTER XLIX.#¶JANUARY 20th to || 5755,6214 CHAPTER XLIX|.|#¶JANUARY 20th to 22nd.--For th |#THE NEGRO BECOMES INSANE| 5757,6217 JANUARY 20|th| to 22nd.--For the day or two a || 5757,6217 JANUARY 20th to 22|nd.--|For the day or two after the ho |. -- | 5757,6217 JANUARY 20th to 22nd.--For the day or two after the hor||rible#repast of the 18th those |-#| 5758,6218 repast of the 18th those who had partaken of it ap||peared to#suffer comparatively |-#| 5769,6229 starved as they knew us to be, as though they were reck||oning our#hours, and already we |-#| 5774,6235 sufferings, we had been offered our choice be||tween a few drops of#water and |-#| 5776,6237 without exception, have pre||ferred to take the water.#¶And |-#| 5779,6241 while there was water, water, nothing but water, every||where#around us! Again and aga |-#| 5780,6242 around us! Again and again, incapable of compre||hending how#powerless it was to |-#| 5786,6249 |"|Chancellor." There could be no || 5786,6249 "Chancellor.|"| There could be no hope now; al || 5787,6250 by the most deplorable of deaths. I was quite con||scious that a#mist was gatherin |-#| 5797,6261 A frightful fatality occurred to-day. The scene was ter||rible.#Jynxtrop the negro went |-#| 5798,6262 Jynx||trop the negro went raving mad. |s| 5804,6268 one of those un||accountable impulses of madness |-#| 5819,6284 |¶|CHAPTER L.#¶JANUARY 23rd.--Only || 5820,6284 CHAPTER L|.|#¶JANUARY 23rd.--Only eleven of |#ALL HOPE GONE| 5822,6287 JANUARY 23|rd.--|Only eleven of us now remain; a |. -- | 5828,6293 survivor of the |"|Chancellor" will remain.# || 5828,6293 survivor of the "Chancellor|"| will remain.# || 5831,6296 blowing pretty briskly from the north|-|east. It has filled our# || 5836,6302 Curtis and Falsten are certainly in the best condition among|st|#us, and in spite of their extr || 5844,6310 self, and I doubt whether any| |one would recognize him to be t || 5850,6315 motion||less and statue-like does he si |-#| 5854,6321 course of the day, and the few syllables that our parched tongue||#and swollen lips can pronounce |s| 5856,6323 and bloodless, we are no longer human beings; we are spect|re|s.#¶¶¶CHAPTER LI.# |er| 5859,6326 |¶|CHAPTER LI.# || 5860,6326 CHAPTER LI|.|#¶JANUARY 24th.--I have inquire |#FLAYPOLE BECOMES DELIRIOUS| 5862,6329 JANUARY 24|th.--I| have inquired more than once o |. -- 1| 5867,6334 westward|s|, that is to say, towards the l || 5867,6334 westwards, that is to say, toward|s| the land.#¶To-day the breeze h || 5871,6340 has been raging at no great distance. The raft labo|u|rs hard# || 5876,6344 terminate our miserable ex||istence? Certain it seems that |-#| 5886,6355 has now become impossible, for ever since Jynx||trop's death the#sharks have hu |-#s| 5890,6359 but even with the exercise of the greatest pa||tience, it was with#the utmost |-#| 5894,6363 to give up the attempt in de||spair.#¶Falsten is now almost e |-#| 5903,6374 did well to hope, but I dared no|r| entertain one sanguine thought |t| 5903,6374 did well to hope, but I dared nor entertain one sanguine thought|;|#and there I lay, waiting, nay, |,| 5907,6378 loud peal of laughter burst upon my ear|| Some one else, then, was# |.| 5907,6378 loud peal of laughter burst upon my ear Some| |one else, then, was#going mad, || 5923,6396 raging up and down the raft. Sight, taste|| and hearing--all were# |,| 5923,6396 raging up and down the raft. Sight, taste and hear|ing--|all were#gone; but the cerebral |-#ing -- | 5927,6400 whisk||y, and, above all water! Stumb |e| 5927,6400 whisky, and, above all|| water! Stumbling at every ste |,| 5929,6402 among|st| us like an intoxicated man. W || 5934,6408 unfortunate wretch would, like Jynx||trop, put an end to himself by# |s| 5942,6417 Flaypole at last sank down in a heap in a cor||ner of the raft,#where he lay l |-#| 5946,6421 |¶|CHAPTER LII.#¶JANUARY 25th.--La || 5947,6421 CHAPTER LII|.|#¶JANUARY 25th.--Last night was |#I DECIDE TO COMMIT SUICIDE| 5949,6424 JANUARY 25|th.--|Last night was very misty, and |. -- | 5959,6435 twelve, and although I knew that eleven, since Jynx||trop was dead,# |s| 5964,6440 life passed rapidly through my brain|,| My country, my friends, and# |.| 5968,6444 Toward|s| morning I woke from my sleep, || 5968,6445 Towards morning I woke from my sleep, if the languid stupo|u|r into# || 5970,6446 taken possession of my brain|;| I would put an end to myself, | --| 5970,6447 taken possession of my brain; I would put an end to myself|,| and I# |;| 5972,6448 terminate my suffer||ings. I told Curtis, with the |-#| 5973,6449 composure, of my in||tention, and he received the in |-#| 5976,6453 "Of course you will do as you please," he said; "for|,| my own#part, I shall not aband || 5977,6455 part, I shall not abandon my post. It is my duty to remain here|,|#and unless death comes to carr |;| 5981,6458 The dull gr|e|y fog still hung heavily over t |a| 5983,6460 time, dispel the vapo|u|r. Towards seven o'clock I fan || 5983,6460 time, dispel the vapour. Toward|s| seven o'clock I fancied I hear || 5985,6462 times, and as I went up to the cap||tain to ask him about it, I#hea |-#| 5986,6463 heard him mutter to himself|,--|#¶"Birds! why, that looks as i |:| 5988,6465 "Birds! |w|hy, that looks as if land were |W| 5990,6467 But although Curtis might still cling to the hope of reach||ing#land, I knew not what it wa |-#| 5995,6472 was with a certain amount of im||patience that I awaited the ris |-#| 6004,6483 that there was any sunlight to condense the vapo|u|r; the horizon# || 6006,6485 hour longer the fog hung heavily round the raft|;| whilst Curtis,# |,| 6006,6485 hour longer the fog hung heavily round the raft; whil|st| Curtis,# |e| 6009,6488 surface of the ocean, dispelled the fog|,| and left the horizon# || 6010,6488 open|ed| to our eyes.# || 6013,6491 circle that bounded sea and sky|,| unbroken, definite, distinct a | --| 6016,6495 he had not the right to put an end to his misery. For myself|| I#had fully determined that if |,| 6022,6501 Night drew on, but I could not sleep for a moment. To|wards| two#o'clock in the morning my |-#ward| 6025,6505 serve to quench the fire that was burning within me? What if||#instead of drinking the blood |,| 6026,6506 instead of drinking the blood of others|| I were to drink my own?# |,| 6027,6506 It would be all un||availing, I was well aware, but |-#| 6027,6507 It would be all unavailing, I was well aware|,| but scarcely had#the thought c |;| 6032,6512 life, I felt that for a moment my torments were re||lieved, But#only for a moment; |-#| 6032,6513 life, I felt that for a moment my torments were relieved|,| But#only for a moment; all ene |.| 6037,6518 morning came it brought another fog, heavy as before|| that again# |,| 6040,6520 felt that I |w|ould like to press the hand of |sh| 6041,6521 died. Curtis was stand||ing near, and crawling up to hi |-#| 6043,6524 farewell, and with one last lingering hope he endeavo|u|red to# || 6044,6525 restrain me. But all in vain|,| my mind was finally made up.# |;| 6046,6527 I should have like|| to speak once again to M. Leto |d| 6046,6528 I should have like to speak once again to M. Letourneur, Andre||#and Miss Herbey, but my courag |,| 6049,6530 speak to me of duty|| and of God, and of eternity, a |,| 6054,6536 and the unbroken horizon; if a sail or the outline of a coast |b|ad#broken on my view, I believe |h| 6060,6543 torments of thirst were racking me with redoubled vigo|u|r. All# || 6064,6546 recognized as Dowlas's|;| broke upon my ear.# |,| 6072,6555 |¶|CHAPTER LIII.#¶JANUARY 26th.--A || 6073,6555 CHAPTER LIII|.|#¶JANUARY 26th.--All heard and |#WE DECIDE TO DRAW LOTS| 6075,6558 JANUARY 26|th.--|All heard and understood the pr |. -- | 6075,6559 JANUARY 26th.--All heard and understood the proposition; in fact|,|#it had been in contemplation f || 6082,6565 exception to be made in favo|u|r of Miss Herbey, but the sailo || 6082,6566 exception to be made in favour of Miss Herbey|,| but the sailors#raised a murmu |;| 6084,6568 there were ten chances to one in each one's favo|ur,| a proportion# |r --| 6085,6569 which would be diminished if Miss Herbey were excluded|,| so that# |;| 6091,6575 for |postpon|ing the fatal lottery. There w |delay| 6092,6576 clung in the least to life|,| and we knew that at the worst, |;| 6092,6577 clung in the least to life, and we knew that|| at the worst,# |,| 6104,6589 then|,| "I will," said a voice behind || 6104,6589 then, "I will," said a voice behind me. Turn||ing round, I beheld#M. Letourne |-#| 6105,6590 M. Letourneur standing with out||stretched hand, and with his lo |-#| 6111,6597 "As soon as you please," said the boatswain|, and handed him the#hat|.#¶M. Letourneur proceeded to d || 6114,6600 M. Letourneur proceeded to draw out the folded strips of paper||#one by one, and after reading |,| 6115,6600 one by one, and|| after reading out aloud the na |,| 6115,6600 one by one, and after reading out |a|loud the name upon it, handed#i || 6123,6609 still four to one in my favo|u|r.#¶M. Letourneur continued his || 6128,6614 Herbey's, but the young girl heard it with||out a start. Then came#mine, y |-#| 6129,6616 mine, yes, mine! and the ninth was ||that of Letourneur.# |was | 6136,6623 remained in the hat|;| those of Dowlas and of M. Leto | --| 6136,6623 remained in the hat; those of Dowlas and |of |M. Letourneur# || 6136,6623 remained in the hat; those of Dowlas and of M. Letour||neur#himself.# |-#| 6139,6626 "Go on|,|" almost roared the carpenter, |!| 6140,6627 peril as though he could devour him. M. Le||tourneur almost had a#smile upo |-#| 6142,6630 with a firm, unfaltering voice, marvel|l|ous for his age, unfolded# || 6146,6635 M. Letourneur took the last bit of paper from the hat, and||#without looking at it, tore it |,| 6147,6635 without looking at it, tore it to pieces. But, unper||ceived by#all but myself, one l |-#| 6149,6637 raft. I crawled toward|s| it and picked it up. On one s || 6151,6639 Letourneur saw what I had done, and|| rushing towards me, snatched#t |,| 6151,6640 Letourneur saw what I had done, and rushing toward|s| me, snatched#the paper from my || 6155,6644 |¶|CHAPTER LIV.#¶JANUARY 26th.--I || 6156,6644 CHAPTER LIV|.|#¶JANUARY 26th.--I understood i |#MISS HERBEY PLEADS FOR ONE DAY MORE| 6158,6647 JANUARY 26|th.--|I understood it all; the devote |. -- | 6158,6647 JANUARY 26th.--I understood it all; the devoted father hav||ing#nothing more to give, had g |-#| 6165,6654 With lips distended, and teeth dis||played, they waited like a herd |-#| 6168,6657 upon him while |he was |still alive. It seemed impossi || 6169,6658 appeal to their human||ity could, at such a moment, ha |-#| 6171,6660 may seem, pre||vailed.#¶Just as the boatswain |-#| 6175,6666 work, Miss Herbey advanced, or rather crawled, toward|s| them.# || 6180,6671 in the name of mercy I en||treat, I implore you."#¶My hear |-#| 6184,6676 lips, and I fancied that, perhaps, in super-||natural vision she#had viewed t |#| 6191,6684 murmur, and the boatswain in a smothered voice said|,--|#¶"Very well, we will wait till |:| 6193,6686 "Very well, we will wait till daybreak to||morrow," and threw down# |-| 6204,6697 was for his father, and I saw him count the pas||sengers on the#raft. He looked |-#| 6205,6698 raft. He looked puzzled; when he lost con||sciousness there had#been only |-#| 6210,6703 further ques||tion, but took his father's han |-#| 6211,6704 counte||nance was calm and serene; he s |-#| 6216,6710 Meantime, I could not disabuse my mind of the impres||sion caused#by Miss Herbey's in |-#| 6218,6712 near at hand, and that we were approach||ing the termination of our#susp |-#| 6222,6716 they miles away, would be dis||covered somewhere to leeward.#¶ |-#| 6226,6721 loss there is in store for him to||morrow. His father listened# |-| 6229,6725 was sure would still spare the survivors of the |"|Chancellor," and# || 6229,6725 was sure would still spare the survivors of the "Chancellor,|"| and# || 6233,6728 Some time afterward|s|, when I was alone with him, M. || 6234,6729 whispered in my ear|,--|#¶"Mr. Kazallon, I commend my b |:| 6237,6732 must never know||--"#¶His voice was choked with | | 6242,6737 But I was full of hope, and, without a moment's inter||mission, I#kept my eyes fixed u |-#| 6243,6738 kept my eyes fixed upon the unbroken horizon|,| Curtis, Miss#Herbey, Falsten, |.| 6245,6740 scanning the broad expanse of ||sea.#¶Night has come on; but I |the | 6252,6747 |¶|CHAPTER LV.#¶JANUARY 27th.--I d || 6253,6747 CHAPTER LV|.|#¶JANUARY 27th.--I did not clos |#FRESH WATER| 6255,6750 JANUARY 27|th.--|I did not close my eyes all nig |. -- | 6259,6754 lingered|-|round the raft. The waning moo | | 6259,6754 lingered-round the raft. The wan||ing moon rose at a quarter to#o |-#| 6262,6758 longed-for sail, lying only a few cables'| |lengths away.# |-| 6266,6762 appeared, and as the shocking hour of execu||tion drew near, my#dreams of de |-#| 6272,6768 intoxi||cated.#¶It was now six o'clock, |-#| 6282,6779 existence seemed concen||trated in the exercise of his p |-#| 6284,6782 eyes gleaming, like ||wild beasts ready to pounce upo |the | 6289,6787 but all of a sudden, in a voice that made me start|| he shouted,--# |,| 6289,6787 but all of a sudden, in a voice that made me start he shouted|,--|#¶"Now then, time's up!" and f |:| 6292,6791 and Sandon, ran to the back of the raft. As Dowlas|'|seized the# | | 6302,6801 "Never!" shrieked Andre, throwing his arms about his father|,|#"They shall kill me first. It |.| 6305,6803 |¶|But the words of the unhappy yo || 6307,6804 increase the fury of the men who were so sta|u|nchly bent upon# || 6314,6812 held him down so tightly that he could not move, whil|st| Burke and# |e| 6324,6822 clothes, and his neck and shoulders were al||ready bare.#¶"Stop a moment!" |-#| 6327,6826 indomitable courage. "Stop! I don't want to de||prive you of your#ration; but I |-#| 6329,6828 to||day."# |-| 6331,6830 The sailors, taken |a|back by his suggestion, stared || 6335,6834 each a meal; cut them off for to-day, and to-||morrow you shall#have the rest |#| 6341,6841 Curtis and I could bear this scene no longer; whil|st| we were#alive to prevent it, t |e| 6342,6842 alive to prevent it, this butchery should not be per||mitted, and#we rushed forwards |-#| 6343,6843 we rushed forward|s| simultaneously to snatch the v || 6345,6845 |MELEE| I was seized by one of the sai |melee,| 6355,6855 |¶|CHAPTER LVI.#¶JANUARY 27th CONT || 6356,6855 CHAPTER LVI|.|#¶JANUARY 27th CONTINUED.--A ch |#NEAR THE COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA| 6358,6858 JANUARY 27|th CONTINUED.--|A change came over me as if by | continued. -- | 6361,6861 was hauled up on to the raft|, |"Fresh water!" were the first# |.#¶| 6364,6865 "Fresh water?" cried Curtis|,| "why then, my friends, we are |;| 6367,6868 It was not too late|;| the blow had not been struck, |:| 6370,6871 they were yielding to over||powering numbers that my voice |-| 6373,6875 The struggle came to an end. As soon as the words "|F|resh water"# |f| 6377,6879 all the rest were on their knees and drinking eagerly|,| The rough# |.| 6380,6882 their hands to heaven in silent gratitude|,| Andre and his father# |.| 6385,6887 "The land is there," said Curtis|| pointing towards the west.# |,| 6385,6887 "The land is there," said Curtis pointing toward|s| the west.#¶We all stared at th || 6387,6891 We all stared at the captain as though he were mocking us|;| no#land was in sight, and the |:| 6388,6892 land was in sight, and the raft, just as ever, was the cent|re| of#a watery waste. Yet our se |er| 6389,6893 a watery waste. Yet our senses had not deceived us|| the water we# |;| 6402,6905 |¶|CHAPTER LVII.#¶JANUARY 27th CON || 6403,6905 CHAPTER LVII|.|#¶JANUARY 27th CONTINUED.--Curt |#LAND AHOY!| 6405,6908 JANUARY 27|th CONTINUED.--|Curtis, no doubt was right The | continued. -- | 6405,6908 JANUARY 27th CONTINUED.--Curtis, no doubt|| was right The discharge# |,| 6405,6908 JANUARY 27th CONTINUED.--Curtis, no doubt was right|| The discharge#from the mouth o |.| 6406,6909 from the mouth of the Amazon is enor||mously large, but we had#probab |-#| 6408,6912 could find fresh water so far from land. Yet land|,| undoubtedly# || 6409,6913 was there, and the breeze was carrying us onward|s| slowly but# || 6415,6918 father, who remained by themselves to||gether at the stern)#clustered |-#| 6416,6919 clustered in a group, and kept our ex||pectant gaze upon the#horizon.# |-#| 6419,6922 We had not long to wait. Before an hour had passed|| Curtis,#leaped in ecstasy and |,| 6419,6923 We had not long to wait. Before an hour had passed Curtis|,|#leaped in ecstasy and raised t || 6422,6926 |* * * *|#¶My journal has come to a clos |. . . . .| 6426,6930 I have only to relate, as briefly as possible, the circum||stances#that finally brought us |-#| 6430,6934 Magoari, on the |I|sland of Marajo, and was observ |i| 6431,6935 fishermen|| who, with kind-hearted alacrit |,| 6431,6936 fishermen who, with kind-hearted alacrity picked us up|,| and# || 6435,6939 The raft was brought to land in lat|. 0|deg. 12min. N., so that# |itude 0 | 6435,6939 The raft was brought to land in lat. 0deg. 12|min. N.|, so that#since we abandoned th |' north| 6436,6940 since we abandoned the |"|Chancellor" we had drifted at l || 6436,6940 since we abandoned the "Chancellor|"| we had drifted at least# || 6437,6941 fifteen degrees to the south|-|west. Except for the influence || 6437,6941 fifteen degrees to the south-west. Except for the in||fluence of#the Gulf Stream we m |-#| 6442,6947 Of the thirty-two souls|--|nine passengers, and twenty-thr | -- | 6442,6947 Of the thirty-two souls--nine passengers|,| and twenty-three# || 6442,6947 Of the thirty-two souls--nine passengers, and twenty-||three#seamen--who left Charlest |#| 6443,6948 seamen|--|who left Charleston on board th | -- | 6447,6953 authorities. Those who signed were Miss Her||bey, J. R. Kazallon,#M. Letourn |-#| 6449,6955 Dowlas, Burke, Flaypole, San||don, and last, though not least |-#| 6450,6957 |¶|"Robert Curtis, captain."#¶At P || 6451,6957 "Robert Curtis, |c|aptain."#¶At Para we soon found |C| 6456,6962 Aspinwall line, the |"|Ville de St. Nazaire," which co || 6456,6962 Aspinwall line, the "Ville de St. Na||zaire," which conveyed us to#Eu |-#| 6456,6963 Aspinwall line, the "Ville de St. Nazaire,|"| which conveyed us to#Europe.#¶ || 6459,6965 After all the dangers and privations which we have under||gone#together, it is scarcely n |-#| 6461,6967 between the surviving passengers of the |"|Chancellor" a bond of# || 6461,6967 between the surviving passengers of the "Chancellor|"| a bond of#friendship too indis || 6463,6970 circumstance to destroy; Curtis must ever remain the hono|u|red and# || 6465,6972 in their misfortunes; his conduct was beyond all praise||#¶When we were fairly on our ho |.| 6473,6980 adding, "he is an invalid, and |b|e requires, as he deserves, the |h| 6476,6983 Miss Herbey, after some deliberation, consented to be||come a#member of their family, |-#| 6480,6988 noble-hearted girl may experience the happiness that s||o richly# |he s| 6481,6988 |she |deserves?# || 6487,6994 End of Project Gutenberg Etext |of| Survivors of the Chancellor, b |The|