One fine day the drogher was driven out to sea, and never heard of a'terwards.
One day, a small drogher arrived from the English island of Antigua, bringing as passengers four or five seamen, the only survivors of a terrible disaster which befell one of those privateers while cruising to the windward of Antigua.
They, at all events, congratulated themselves that they had not been on board the drogher when she was blown away from Saba.
The next day and the next passed--the drogher did not appear, and the two captains became as anxious as were the three lieutenants to ascertain the fate of their midshipmen.
It was a question whether the drogher had continued her course due west, or had steered northward to Saint Barts, or southward to Saint Eustatia, or Saint Kitts.
Away flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean.
Still the drogher lay over on her side and gave no signs of righting.
Alick knew that Captain Hemming would not sail before the return of the drogher with his midshipmen, or should she not appear until he had endeavoured to ascertain their fate.
The drogher was hired by the day, and the longer she was out the more he pocketed.
At night sail was shortened, and the schooner stood backwards and forwards, now to the northward, now to the southward, so that no risk might be run of passing the drogher in the dark.
Suddenly, as you may see sometimes a hulking giant knock down a little chap with a blow of his fist, a sea struck the drogher on the starboard beam; and before a sheet could be let fly over she went.
The wonder was that the drogher still kept afloat; but she was tight and light as a cork--now she was on the top of one sea, now climbing up the side of another.
It proves, however, that the crew of the droghermust have been sober, or they could not have found their way clear of it.
The drogher spun round like a top, and off she flew before the hurricane.
Needham is a prime seaman, and he will have done what was possible to keep the drogher afloat, though they were sadly short-handed, I own.
Drogher after drogher left us filled with salvage, while others crowded as near as they dared to receive the bags, cases and bundles, that were constantly being hurled overside.
The port fell; thedrogher went on bumping alongside, completely disregarded.
Their surprise and their swearing appeared to me alarmingly unaffected; with a most imbecile alacrity they exerted themselves, with small spars and boathooks, to push the drogher off.
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