Up against it in Nigeria . THE STEAM DRIFTER EILEEN EMMA.(By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) MORE TROUBLE. (By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.). THE CREW OF THE EILEEN EMMA(By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) THE FALABA 177 horses were chasing each other in endless succes-sion, and great green billows rose up like walls,struck one in the mouth, and then hurtled oneinto the trough again. Never, strangely enough,did it occur to me to nurse my resources andwait till I was picked up. I was obsessed withthe idea that I must either make the trawler bymy own exertions, or go under. I therefore kept swimmi
Up against it in Nigeria . THE STEAM DRIFTER EILEEN EMMA.(By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) MORE TROUBLE. (By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.). THE CREW OF THE EILEEN EMMA(By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) THE FALABA 177 horses were chasing each other in endless succes-sion, and great green billows rose up like walls,struck one in the mouth, and then hurtled oneinto the trough again. Never, strangely enough,did it occur to me to nurse my resources andwait till I was picked up. I was obsessed withthe idea that I must either make the trawler bymy own exertions, or go under. I therefore kept swimming for all I was worth,and had got within hopeful distance of her when,to my horror, she swung round and went off in anorth-westerly direction—evidently attracted bythe cries of other wretches. I was now utterly exhausted, I had swalloweda fair portion of the Irish Channel, and my legsfelt like lead. Pushing feebly forward for a fewmore strokes, I decided that it was all up withme, and was actually beginning to undo the tapesof my jacket so that the end should not be pro-tracted, when I espied pushing off from the trawlera dinghy con
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