It was with some difficulty I escaped, for the boats had come up close to the brig; they chased me a little while, but the yawl and the cutter turning back to my assistance, they gave up the pursuit.
I steered the yawl as coxswain, and when admirals and captains talk in the stern-sheets, they very often forget that the coxswain is close behind them.
He comprehended that the savages had come across the yawl and had probably seen his footmarks.
They left the fellows aboard the Swallow to guzzle and get sthupid while they took a yawl and came here to remove the threasure.
The night previous he was the only trusted one of the crew that Nesik and the Hankers took in the yawl that went for the treasure.
In a few moments the outline of a yawl somewhat larger than the one Dave was in loomed up in the near distance.
The yawl lay keel upwards, as it had landed with him and as he had left it earlier in the morning.
Still, his deep anxiety, poignantly aroused now as he thought of Daley and the others who had been in the yawl with him, showed his heart to be in the right place.
He planned how he would fix the hole in the side of the yawl and make some oars.
A furious gale was blowing, and the frail yawl was riding on high waves.
He was now quite hidden from the view of those aboard of the gunboat, but he feared they might send a yawl on an investigating expedition.
He managed to cut the rope that imprisoned him, and fell away from the yawl with a feeling of great relief.
The ship's yawl took them out of the cove and landed them about five miles down shore, the boatswain in charge.
In an instant the yawl was raised by a mighty force.
He had the idea in his mind of trying to mend up the yawl on the beach.
Colonel Jose Silverado, from his excellency the governor," announced the officer in charge of the yawl as he neared the side of the steamer.
Both boys watched a natty, well-manned yawl come spinning up the creek towards the Swallow.
Jim was not to be seen, for he was lying flat in the bottom of the boat to escape the Indian bullets, but he was evidently pulling the rudder ropes to guide the yawl as nearly as possible to the bar.
There remained nothing to do but send out the yawl to sound through the other branch and find out if there was enough water there to carry the boat.
When they did so, to their horror they discovered theyawl out in mid-stream and some little distance down, rapidly drifting toward the bar.
The yawl slipped off the bank and I couldn't get it back.
The yawl gradually worked its way diagonally across and down the river, following the crest of the bar, until it had approached quite near to the north bank, the leadsman constantly thrusting his pole down to the river bottom.
He handled her as skilfully as he had the small yawl in Solway Firth.
So the job began in earnest, but our friend was not a very good man for that kind of work; he could not do anything until he took the old yawl apart for patterns to work by.
It was an old yawl from some ship, very short and broad.
The wind had died away and the slaver lay between the yawl and the eastern dawn, a dim yet recognizable bulk.
There was a cleat near the tiller and Ralph, hauling in, brought the yawl a little up in the wind and soon had the craft under headway.
Take three hands and make ready the ship's yawl alongside.
A slow, majestic heaving of the ocean, on which the yawl gently rose and fell was counter crossed by the shorter ripples stirred up by the light wind then blowing.
The second was rougher, and the men strained at the oars to give the yawl as much headway as possible.
He was not a little astonished at the boy's re-appearance, having heard the shot which wounded Ralph, and having given both lad and yawl up for lost.
For an hour or two both man and boy worked until they had the yawl in as good trim as possible.
But he had been aboard the yawl now about five days on a diet of bread and water.
To remain in the yawl was to court a lingering and terrible death.
The sea was a tumbling mass of gray, seething billows, that tossed the yawl at pleasure hither and thither, the rag of sail barely sufficing to keep her head to windward.
As he rose from making it fast, the yawl was spinning through the water in the schooner's wake, as the latter, heeling to the wind, responded like a thing of life to the wishes of those on board.
But Duff, already somewhat piqued by Gary's apparent indifference as to whether the yawl was picked up or not, drew himself up stiffly.
But the old sailor, whose muscles were like whipcord, shook his head and fairly made the yawl spring beneath his redoubled strokes.
But it was the last of the angry combers and the next minute the three were wiping the salt water from their faces while the yawl was riding easily on the glassy swell just beyond the bar.
But when he found that all persuasion was useless, he bade his people fill the yawl with vegetables and such meat as was on hand.
Shawn pushed the yawl away from the burning boat, and seating himself with the oars, began the fight for the shore.
As the yawl touched the water, a score of roustabouts started to leap into it.
Shawn sprang into the yawland pushed out into the stream, and the work he did that night in saving struggling beings, is still talked about along that river.
Finally, the yawl was to occupy the space between the two channels, with orders to repeat signals, and to be vigilant in reconnoitring.
At the same instant, the barge and yawl were seen advancing towards the object of their common attack, with a velocity that promised to bring the event to a speedy issue.
He gave the yawl a wide sheer, and called to his men to pull for their lives.
Ashamed that a boat belonging to a ship of war should betray doubts, the people of the yawl were ordered to go within reach of the oars.
A single dash of the oars was heard, and the yawl was already twenty feet from the mysterious image.
The yawl also inclined from the straight line steering as much on one side as the barge diverged on the other.
Beckoning to one of these idlers to follow him, the hero of the India-shawl stepped into an empty boat, and casting loose its fast, he sculled the light yawl towards the craft which was awaiting his arrival.
The men of the yawl report that the rover shows this symbol in many parts of his vessel, and we know he had the impudence to set it yesterday in our presence, even on his ensign.
But Ab's first glimpse at the stern of the yawl showed the name, painted in goodly black letters, "S.
Sir, that yawl is bumping alongside," broke in the bow watch.
The yawlwas drifting by, and barely thirty feet from the motor yacht's hull, when Ab made the throw.
In the bottom of the yawl lay two life preservers bearing the same name.
He was only jest in time, for as the yawl got back to the edge o' the mush she went down.
An' then, any chap who was willin' to resk his life in a bit of a yawl in that weather was worth puttin' in a boat.
No yawl what was ever made could have faced that sea.
The crowd got to the yawl 'n' pulled her up on shore.
As the yawl cleared the brig and began to feel the united power of the wind and waves, the following short dialogue occurred between the boatswain and Spike.
The yawl had shoved off, and with two men to row it, was pulling for the wharf in front of the house, and among the timbers of which lay the boat, pretty well concealed beneath a sort of bridge.
The water that came on board apprised Spike fully of the state in which he was now placed, and by a desperate effort, he clutched the tiller, and got the yawl again before the wind.
The yawl carried a lugg, as is usually the case with boats at sea, and the first blast of the breeze upon it satisfied Spike that his present enterprise was one of the most dangerous of any in which he had ever been engaged.
Everybody in the yawl was eagerly looking after the form of Tier.
No man in his senses would ever have come into such a place at all, except in the most unavoidable circumstances; and it was with a species of despair that the seamen of the yawl now saw their little craft go plunging into the foam.
The yawl was now relieved from about five hundred pounds of the weight it had carried--Simon weighing two hundred alone, and the youngish seaman being large and full.
The reason why Captain Mull did not chase the yawl of the brig in the Poughkeepsie herself, was the necessity of waiting for his own boats that were endeavouring to regain the sloop-of-war.
He waited until the yawl had risen to the summit of a wave, when he looked eagerly for the man-of-war's cutter.
The yawl was too low in the water, moreover, for such an operation in so heavy a sea.
A hint sufficed for them, and gathering together a few necessaries they were in the yawl in the next three minutes.
He ordered the yawl to be lowered, got alongside, and to be prepared for the reception of the crew, by putting into it a small provision of food and water.
All this time the man-of-war's cutter had been rushing as madly through the breakers, in chase, as the yawl had done in the attempt to escape.
The other exploring boat hangs inside the schooner's yawl at the stern.
The waves were breaking clean over it, but, at the same time, it was breaking them, so that around in the lee of it the water was less boisterous, and the yawl might reach the beach in safety.
This completed the day's work, and on the following morning at low tide the "slack" was again taken in so as to enable the rising tide again to lift the yawl clear of the bottom.
Terence unfastened the cabin door, and as Mr. McKay appeared, holding Ellerton and Quexo in his powerful grip, the yawl seemed to stand on end.
Before the destruction of the yawl they had the means of making even a fairly long passage, but now this was denied them, for it would be utter madness to attempt to go to sea in one of the captured canoes.
Ere the lads could realise the extent of their misfortune the cradle collapsed and the hull of the yawl crashed over on her side.
With a dull roar a white-crested wave broke over the fore-deck, burying the little yawl as far as the mainmast; then ere she could recover herself another comber came like a cataract over the lee quarter.
He must put the yawl about and endeavour to claw-off the treacherous reef.
Andy hoped to avail himself of a high spring tide to float the yawl right over the cradle, then, casting off the lashings that supported her, they could haul the wreck up by means of the winch and effect the repairs at their leisure.
Under reduced canvas the yawl kept the canoe at a regular distance from her, neither gaining nor allowing the latter to overhaul her.
Only a mile now separated the yawl from the entrance to the lagoon of McKay's Island, but every yard of that mile was beset with dangers.
Then, with the return of the spring tides, the work of salving the yawl was resumed.
For a few brief seconds the reefed head-sail slatted violently in the howling wind; then, to the accompaniment of another tremendous sea, the yawl staggered on her fresh course.
Here the yawlwas to make her future berth, the dinghy being kept on the beach well beyond the reach of the tide.
His progress was slow, the wind being still light, and ere the yawl had travelled a hundred yards the firing on shore died away.
Five minutes later the yawl was lying immediately over the slipway, the slings were cast off, and slowly she settled upon the carriage prepared for her reception.
To the accompaniment of a farewell shout of anger from the baffled inhabitants of Ni Atong, the yawl glided swiftly across the moonlit sea.
His uncle at length promised to assist him in building a lugger of somewhat heavier tonnage than the yawl he was accustomed to risk, and the Spanking Sally, of ill-fated memory, was the result.
Irrepressibles try to row yawl through sternlights of "Lotus"; grand collision of yawl at full speed and a rakish cutter at anchor.
I now expected to see the fellows fill the yawl with effects, and run away with them, for, as yet, I could not believe that two men would have the hardihood to attack such a ship's company as ours.
I remember the thoughts that passed through my mind, as the yawl pulled towards the creek, on that occasion, as well as if it had all occurred yesterday.
I am sorry," said Paganel, "for the yawl might have taken us to Auckland.
Mulready, standing at the bow, warded off the shock, and the yawl was drawn alongside.
The cable thus slackened, the yawl sheered, and was thrown violently upon her broadside in the midst of it, and had it not been for the shores lashed to each mast, she must inevitably have capsized.
The rowers worked frantically, but the yawl still drew a head, and in five minutes it had plunged into the storm wrack never to be seen again by mortal eye.
And that was how it came that the yawl Matilda, with a cargo of five thousand pounds and a crew of two dead young men, set sail across the Pacific Ocean.
The yawl Matilda is on sale, and she has all her fixings and plenty of tinned stuff aboard.
While theyawl was pulling towards the Spanish boats, he looked round to the ship.
The firstyawl having received on board several people from the land, took the raft in tow.
The rest of the crew having landed, the yawl was nearing the shore, when a loud roar was heard as if a whole broadside had been fired.
Hoping that she might be the Ione, Captain Martin ordered the firstyawl to be got ready to go off to her.
Time was precious, so, putting the men from the crowded yawl into one of the boats, Rayner, who took charge of her, urging the men to pull with all their might steered back for the ship.
At length he gave orders to lower away the yawl boat, and fit a mast to it, which was speedily done.
All things come to an end; so did this storm, and at last we reached Fortress Monroe, where I was hurriedly transferred by some sailors in a yawlover to a boat that had already started up the James toward Richmond.
Sherman, sitting out there alone in his yawl on the dark river, has witnessed awful spectacles, but this is the sight of a lifetime.
In fact, Seagram confessed that the Spaniard behaved magnanimously; for the moment our yawl was sunk, Olivares cut adrift his boat, and bade the struggling swimmers return in it to their vessel.
To wear a yawl ease off the mizzen, keep the mainsail flat, and haul the jib a-weather.
The Yawl Book Contains designs and plans of twelve Yawl-Rigged Boats Price, $1.
In a light air and a lob of sea when a yawl refuses to go round, you can sometimes cause her to stay by lighting up the jib and hauling the mizzen boom up on the weather side.
We would start the men, and all would go well till the yawl would bring up on a heavy cake of ice, and then the men would drop like so many tenpins, while Brown assumed the horizontal in the bottom of the boat.
We had then been out in the yawl from four o'clock in the morning till half past nine without being near a fire.
I was out in the yawl twice, and then we got through, but the infernal steamboat came near running over us.
