Part 1 (2/2)
”Yes, but then rereat deal of service, and should the piping tiet eood conduct”
”Weel, mon, we'll hope for the best, and may be some other nation will kindly think fit to co to do,” said Archie
”There's every chance of that, I should think,” said Tom Just then seven bells struck in the afternoon watch ”I'll go and see how Gerald is getting on, before I have to co all by hi a little way outside the berth, so that hedown the after-hatchway, sucking lustily at an orange which he grasped in one hand, while he held a book in the other He was so absorbed in its perusal that he did not notice Tohter
”Capital fun; I should have liked to have seen it!” he exclaimed; ”soused over head and ears a second time Ah, ah, ah!”
”What's the joke?” asked Torine Wiffle tu how he saw the s under the wharf, and was picked up with a boat-hook” Toether
”You don't seem very bad,” observed Toot hold of h I don't feel quite as niht to be,” answered Gerald ”I believe that the disappoint over what my uncle Terence can want me home for, hadelse, and I intend to ask the doctor to let o on deck to-morrow, by which time I shall have finished my book, and I want to have a look at any of the islands we may happen to pass There are sohted some One seeht out of the water, and it was not, I should say, an eighth of a mile in circumference It is marked on the chart as Lot's wife A solitary existence she must lead all by herself”
”Whereabouts are we?” asked Des that curious rock, our latitude was 29 degrees north, and our longitude 14 degrees east We shall next sight the Bonin Islands, or Rosario, which is another lofty island, littleup out of the sea”
”Do ask the doctor if I et up, To a look at them,” exclaimed Desmond ”I can finish my book by-and-by”
Just then the officer spoken of, Mr Hussey, caun-rooood-natured expression of countenance, and a merry twinkle in the eye, which showed that he could enjoy a joke, and was likely to utter many a one himself
His naturally florid complexion was deepened into a still more ruddy hue by exposure to the hot suns of the tropics
”Do, doctor, let ood, and I feel quite well already,” said Deset up!” he exclairave
”Arrah, shure, sugar and spice and all that's nice! that's what midshi+pmen are made of But shure, doctor dear, you will not keepthe pure air of heaven?--for I really am well, doctor”
”You ot tired of lying in bed,” was the reply ”Well, if you proood boy and keep in the shade, you o on deck, but I cannot undertake to scratch you off the sick-list yet”
”Thank you, sir,” said Des you tell me, and take as much medicine as you think fit to prescribe I do not want to do duty yet, as I've got a hundred pages allop over a book as some people do”
”Well, well, possibly the shi+p e to take care of itself without you,” said the doctor, as he passed on
Whereupon Desan to put on his clothes, a task which he accomplished with Tom's assistance He felt himself, however, much weaker than he had expected, as he h he tried hard to show that he was hi fro able once more to make his appearance
There was plenty to amuse those who had a taste for natural history even when no land was in sight, and the doctor, as a great naturalist, was constantly on the _qui vive_, for the sea tee-fish Several of the latter caeneral scramble for them, the midshi+p in for the largest share A short time afterwards the unhappy fish made an appearance, well fried, on theirin all directions, tempted to the locality by the abundance of food which the before-na the crew could scarcely restrain their ione off with such gear as they could have prepared to attack the on_ had left japan, the weather had been reht winds But the calhted before the shi+p was again under sail That evening, however, a long heavy swell began to co in size,the shi+p roll from side to side, until her chains touched the water Desmond, in common with two or three of his an to feel very uncohty quare about the region of the stoale of wind, as a change,” answered Tom, who had never been ill since he first came to sea ”We shall have to shorten sail, I've a notion, before long, to be prepared for blustering Boreas, when he thinks fit to visit us”
The whole appearance of the sky and sea quickly changed The wildfohich had been hovering around the shi+p, winged their flight to the nearest islands where shelter could be found The atlare by the rays of the sun co the ocean, the shi+p, her canvas and sides, the same unnatural tint