Генри де Вэр Стэкпул – The Blue Lagoon / Голубая лагуна (страница 8)

“Land ho! it is,” said he, coming down to the deck. “Come forward to the bows, and I’ll show it you.”

He stood on the timber in the bows and lifted Emmeline up in his arms, so she could see something of an unclear colour on the horizon.

It was not directly ahead, but to the right. When Dick had looked and expressed his disappointment as there was very little to see, Paddy began to make preparations for leaving the ship.

It was only just now, with land in sight, that he recognised the horror of the position from which they were about to escape.

He fed the children hurriedly with some biscuits and tinned meat, and then, with a biscuit in his hand, eating as he went, he went about the decks, collecting things and placing them in the dinghy. All the old clothes, a housewife full of needles and thread, such as seamen sometimes carry, the half-sack of potatoes, a saw which he found in the caboose, the precious coil of tobacco, and a lot of other odds and ends[117] he transhipped, sinking the little dinghy several inches in the process. Also, of course, he took the breaker of water, and the remains of the biscuit and tinned stuff they had brought on board. When this was done, and the dinghy ready, he went forward with the children to the bow, to see how the island was showing.

It had loomed up nearer during the hour or so in which he had been collecting and storing the things—nearer, and more to the right, which meant that the brig was carried by a fast current, and that she would pass it, leaving it two or three miles to starboard. It was well they had the dinghy.

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