I do not doubt that the two sooty-skinned little men were castaways driven eastward by one of those strong westerly gales that have been known to last for three weeks at a time.
By Fijian custom the lives of all castaways were forfeit, but the pretence to supernatural powers would have saved men full of the religious rites of their Melanesian home, and would have assured them a hearing.
The loss of the second boat had rendered it impossible for the whole party to embark; but no doubt the Resident at Tulagi would have boats of some sort at his disposal, and in these the castaways could be taken off.
He was divided between pleasure at his success, and sorrow that the castaways were as yet unrelieved, for he could not doubt that the gunboat was the same that had been dispatched from Brisbane to their assistance.
Starting with the assumption that the castaways were still on the island, he said to himself that they must have left the fort voluntarily, or there would certainly be signs of a struggle.
Chapter 21 The Castaways Clayton dreamed that he was drinking his fill of water, pure, delightful drafts of fresh water.
He was accompanied by Mr. Barcoe Jenks, one of the castaways of Earthquake Island.
I think Neal has arranged the business as it should be," Teddy said approvingly, and from that moment the castaways believed they were committed to the scheme.
By this time the castaways were decidedly hungry, and the half-cooked fowls tasted better than had the most elaborate meals on board the Sea Dream.
Of the three castaways Neal was the only one who had any misgivings regarding the proposed detour.
It is not necessary to make any attempt at trying to describe the reception the castaways met with from the remainder of the yacht's crew, nor the manner in which Poyor and Cummings were welcomed.
The planks were hard, no doubt, but our castaways were hardy; besides, a few folds of the superfluous portions of the large sail helped to soften the planks here and there.
With eager gaze the castaways watched this island as they slowly approached it--the minuter beauties of rock and dell and leafy copse brightening into view as the sun mounted the clear blue sky.
Our castaways at once sank flatter into the grass, and became mute.
Yet it seemed but a temporary deliverance, for when these castaways looked around them, they saw nothing but a heaving ocean and a darkening sky, with the tiny raft as the only visible solid speck in all the watery waste.
Illustration: "These castaways looked at themselves as colonists who had reached their destination.
These castaways looked at themselves as colonists who had reached their destination, and, forgetting the sufferings of their long march, they had no other thought than that of securing a comfortable future.
The wind was fair; the poor castaways put out to sea on this frail raft.
And yet this situation was unlike that of castaways on the islands of the Pacific Ocean, those Robinsons whose touching history always aroused the envy of their readers.
Terrible are the alternations of hope and despair, and too often at the moment the castaways consider themselves saved the sail sinks beneath the horizon.
One of thosecastaways doesn't look able to help himself, and we'll have to draw him aboard.
By this time everybody on the yacht was on deck, except the castaways and their watchers.
During the cessation of the snow-storm, the castaways contrived to secure another sea-elephant which visited the bay, Karl Ericksen harpooning him in the water.
The whaling schooner reached Table Bay in safety, without encountering any storms similar to that which had led to the loss of the Nancy Bell, and all the rescued castaways were shortly afterwards landed at Cape Town.
What part of it had the castaways been witnessing that they had not recognized?
Fearlessly the little man dashed upon the first of the great brutes the castaways had seen.
The castaways ate ravenously, but even as he ate Bentley noticed that Ellen's face was chalky pale, and that in spite of a distinct effort of will she simply had to look at intervals toward the great beast in the cage.
It was a relief to the castaways to put that awful room behind them.
By means of a compass a direction due west was maintained, the one hope of the castaways being to keep on until some point on the Canal should be reached.
For the next three days these poor castaways suffered considerably from cold and exposure; moreover, the captain had to endure great pain, his wounded leg being stiff and swollen.
Nevertheless, their chief--a tall Arab who was mounted on a white horse--pointed at the two castaways and shouted aloud to his followers.
The overjoyed castawaysdrank their fill; then, with tin cups, they baled up the water and refilled their ten-gallon keg.
It might be supposed that, after shooting Groome and the bo'sun, the Arabs would have murdered the remainder of the castaways out of hand, yet it transpired that they did not do so.
THE castaways watched the distant sail with mingled feelings of joy and suspense.
The man seemed nearly dead, and for hours the two, wet, exhausted castaways worked over him, struggling to coax the spark of life into a flame.
The fire on top was raked away, the contents of the pit were taken out and placed upon green, clean palmetto leaves, and the two castaways fell-to with appetites sharpened by their long wait.
The two castaways waited until the great sea hens had begun to lay, then Chris arose and walked directly for them without any attempt at concealment.
THE castaways lost no time in rejoicing over their good fortune.
It was broad day when thecastaways awoke from the heavy slumber which had followed their hearty midnight supper.
Surely the prospect was bright enough to make the two lonely castaways chatter brightly, cheerfully, and hopefully over their evening meal.
Chris kindled a fire and roasted some of the turtle meat and eggs, but the castaways only partook of a few mouthfuls, as eating seemed but to increase their thirst.
There must have been at least thirty turtles in the bunch but the castaways contented themselves with only turning the two, any more would have been useless slaughter.
Down in the sloop's cabin the castawaysfound a hot meal of ham, eggs, potatoes and coffee waiting for them, which Walter had prepared as a pleasant surprise.
Castaways," says he, gayly, "castaways on a foreign shore.
The vision of the girl in the outer darkness reserved for castaways was terrible.
In the cool of a balmy January evening, following what had been the hottest day the castaways had experienced since coming to Trigger Island, a group of men and women sat upon the Governor's porch.
For the first time in their wanderings the two castaways ate a meal that they had not prepared for themselves; and Prime, observing anxiously, was glad to note that Lucetta's wilderness appetite seemed to be returning.
It was enough that the facts had befallen, and that the net result for a pair of helpless castaways was a well-stocked canoe which Lucetta's acid-proof honesty was still preventing them from appropriating.
The Peculiar People proving to be Savages, the Castaways seize the First Opportunity to leave them, not relishing their Company.
A Number of Peculiar People appear, and theCastaways disappear from the Rock of Good Hope.
A very Peculiar Person appears and disappears, and theCastaways are filled alternately with Hope and Fear.
Profound was the disappointment, and violent the indignation, that filled the thoughts of the castaways as they rowed slowly back to land.
The fire was now blazing up bravely, and the castaways industriously continued to toss on damp fuel, so that a dense column of smoke was now ascending high in the air, being sheltered from the wind by the palm-grove just behind them.
The three castaways seemed to lose their heads completely.
The castawayscontinued to call out and in the meantime brought their rude raft close to the side of the steam yacht.
The curiosity of the castaways was aroused to the highest pitch, and as vigorously as they could they paddled to the side of the steam yacht.
A grass rope was fastened to one of the affairs and they used this in joining the two, and then the castaways made themselves as comfortable as possible on their improvised raft.
I am indebted to Mr. Henry Hubbel for the following explicit account of these castaways: "One native banca of castaways arrived at Lucatan, N.
Another possible source of outside blood is suggested by well verified stories of castaways on the east coast of Mindanao and adjacent islands.
Fever soon took hold of these castaways and in a year's time all died except one small boy who seems to have become acclimated and will become identified with the natives in Mati.
In less than three minutes after coming in contact with the kit, the three castaways formed a group, curious and peculiar.
On the day after the castawayshad been taken aboard, the whale-ship, having extinguished the fires of her try-works, started in search of the drogued whale.
Thus cured, it would keep for weeks or months; and thus did the castaways determine to cure it.
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