Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 37

gone adrift to leeward but approximately two miles the time. To assure the mainmast
now it was the first object. Me taken therefore with me one of the best of the
crew, and it brought above the end of a cable of rope with us to the mainmast
you lead, and it tightened him/it it rounds off the tree, while you/he/she was jumping badly. Us
then it brought the cable to the winches and tense hove, and so indeed
assured the tree.... We was directly going then adrift on beach, where the
cliffs were rocky, sudden, and almost perpendicular, and perhaps it was
almost 1,000 feet stop. To every gust of lightning we could see the you practise the surfing
breaks, while we felt the terrible roar of the sea throwing and breaking
against the stones and caverns of this island of iron-border.

[The illustration: A "Carnation"]

"When I went under me I found the captain in the action to go in bed;  and as
nearby how I can remember, the following dialogue took place:

"'Well, Captain K., what will we do following? We approximately have now six hours to
passage in front of daylight;  and, according to my calculation, we only have around
three hours more motorbikes. Anchor, in front of that duration there, perhaps, both
of the favorable change.'

"He responded:  'The Mr. C., we have done everybody that we am able, and you/he/she cannot do anything more. ME
my fate is discharged to, and he/she thinks nothing you/he/she can save us.'

"I responded:  'You are perhaps right;  anchor, I am resolved to fight to
the last. I am too much youth to die;  I am only ventun years adult, and
has a mother widower, three brothers and a sister that look at me for
support and understanding. No, gentleman, I will fight and I will persevere to the last one.'

"'Ah', did it say him, 'thing can do? Our boat won't live five minutes in
the practises the surfing, and you don't have other resource.'

"'I will take the boat', it said me, 'and when she fills me I will grab on me a
fights. I won't die until my strength it is exhausted and I can breathe anybody