Volume I Part 10 (1/2)

Now, in its proper place, I oing, and while Sa his adventures, dame Annatoo had stolen below into the forecastle, intent upon her chattels And finding theiously, excited, and glancing angrily toward Jarl and ations into both ears of Samoa

This contempt of my presence surprised me at first; but perhaps women are less apt to be impressed by a pretentious de phrase, there is nothing like boarding an enemy in the sant qualities, I gave her to understand--craving her pardon-- that neither the vessel nor aught therein was hers; but that every thing belonged to the owners in Lahina I added, that at all hazards, a stop e for feminine ears; but how to be avoided? Here was an infatuated wo to Samoa's account, had been repeatedly detected in the act of essaying to draw out the screw-bolts which held together the planks Tellby which a stout shi+p fell to pieces?

During this scene, Samoa said little Perhaps he was secretly pleased that his , whose views of the proper position of wives at sea, so fully corresponded with his own; however difficult to practice, those purely theoretical ideas of his had hitherto proved

Oncebut amiable, I observed, that all her clamors would be useless; and that if it came to the worst, the Parki had a hull that would hold her

In the end she went off in a fit of the sulks; sitting down on the windlass and glaring; her ar froave utterance to a dismal chant It sounded like an invocation to the Cholos to rise and dispatch us

CHAPTER XXIX What They Lighted Upon In Further Searching The Craft, And The Resolution They Ca into the cabin with Sa, the captain's writing-desk, and nautical instruht on the previous history of the craft, or aid in navigating her ho of the kind had disappeared: log, quadrant, and shi+p's papers Nothing was left but the sextant-case, which Jarl and I had lighted upon in the state-rooh they were, my suspicions returned; and I closely questioned the Islander concerning the disappearance of these iave me to understand, that the nautical instruments had been clandestinely carried down into the forecastle by Annatoo; and by that indefatigable and inquisitive dame they had been summarily taken apart for scientific inspection It was impossible to restore thelasses, sights, and little mirrors; and many parts still recoverable, were so battered and broken as to be entirely useless For several days afterward,and then came across bits of the quadrant or sextant; but it was only to h sextant and quadrant were both unattainable, I did not so quickly renounce all hope of discovering a chrono, ree serviceable But no such instrument was to be seen

No: nor to be heard of; Sanorance

Annatoo, I threatened and coaxed; describing the chronoe noise, which I ihted upon it unbeknown to Samoa, and dissected it as usual, there was noay to determine Indeed, upon this one point, she maintained an air of such inflexible stupidity, that if she were really fibbing, her dead-wall countenance superseded the necessity for verbal deceit

It ed; for, as with ht never have possessed the instru our way, as we should penetrate farther and farther into the watery wilderness, was necessarily abandoned

The log book had also fors It seems she had taken it into her studio to ponder over But after a over the leaves, and wondering how so ether in so small a compass, she had very suddenly conceived an aversion to literature, and dropped the book overboard as worthless Doubtless, itquickly and profoundly What Ca Saht me a quarto half-sheet of yellowish, ribbed paper, much soiled and tarry, which he had discovered in a dark hole of the forecastle It had plainly for thereon, at present decipherable, conveyed no information upon the subject then nearest ical occurrence, which the page very briefly recounted; as well, as by a noteworthy pictorial illustration of the event in the in of the text Save the cut, there was no further allusion to thecalm, Tooboi, one of the Lahina men, went overboard for a bath, and was eaten up by a shark I”

Now, this last sentence was susceptible of two s It is truth, that immediately upon the decease of a friendless sailor at sea, his shi+pmates oftentih the dead e This proceeding seems heartless But sailors reason thus: Better we, than the captain For by law, either scribbled or unscribbled, the effects of aon shi+pboard, should be held in trust by that officer But as sailors are s and castaways, and carry all their kith and kin in their ars, there hardly ever appears any heir-at-law to clai, like Esterhazy's Wherefore, the withdrawal of a dead man's ”kit” from the forecastle to the cabin, is often held tantamount to its virtual appropriation by the captain At any rate, in ss have been done

Thussaid, then, the sentence above quoted frouous At the ti could not have containedvaluable unless, peradventure, he had concealed therein some Cleopatra pearls, feloniously abstracted froht up froraph, copied above, was a pen-and-ink sketch of the casualty,represented half way in the process of deglutition; his ar the h a morsel of himself as possible

But no doubt the honest captain sketched this cenotaph to the departed in all sincerity of heart; perhaps, during the melancholy leisure which followed the catastrophe Half obliterated were several stains upon the page; see traces of a salt tear or two

From this unwonted ener, at one ti For, in India ink, the logs of certain whalemen are decorated by somewhat similar illustrations

When whales are seen, but not captured, the fact is denoted by an outline figure representing the creature's flukes, the broad, curving lobes of his tail But in those cases where the monster is both chased and killed, this outline is filled up jet black; one for every whale slain; presenting striking objects in turning over the log; and so facilitating reference Hence, it is quite i to behold, all in a row, three or four, so that so many monsters that day jetted their last spout And the chief enerally prides himself upon the beauty, and flushy likeness to life, of his flukes; though, sooth to say, many of these artists are no Landseers

After vainly searching the cabin for those articles we most needed, we proceeded to explore the hold, into which as yet we had not penetrated Here, we found a considerable quantity of pearl shells; cocoanuts; an abundance of fresh water in casks; spare sails and rigging; and some fifty barrels or more of salt beef and biscuit

Unroered over the, and in a revery Branded upon each barrel head was the name of a place in America, hich I was very familiar It is froinally procured for the few vessels sailing out of the Hawaiian Islands