. The great quest; a romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea . IVTHREE DESPERATE MEN. CHAPTER XV THE ISLAND To the dark land on the sky-line, we swiftly drewnearer, and presently saw a low shore where a thread ofgleaming white, which came and went, told us unmistak-ably that great seas were breaking. Of the exact pointthat we had reached on the coast we still were in doubt,for our charts were poor and Captain North suspected thequadrant of having developed some fault of a nature sot
. The great quest; a romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea . IVTHREE DESPERATE MEN. CHAPTER XV THE ISLAND To the dark land on the sky-line, we swiftly drewnearer, and presently saw a low shore where a thread ofgleaming white, which came and went, told us unmistak-ably that great seas were breaking. Of the exact pointthat we had reached on the coast we still were in doubt,for our charts were poor and Captain North suspected thequadrant of having developed some fault of a nature sotechnical that I neither understood it at the time nor nowremember its name; so we hove to, while Gleazen andMatterson and Gideon North, and eventually Mr. Sever-ance, of whom I saw less and thought more seldom thanof any other man in the cabin, put their heads togetherand argued the matter. Mr. Severance was a good enough man in his place, Isuppose, but he was too indolent and self-centred, and toosleepily fond of his pipe, to command attention. For all the headway that the four seemed to be making,they might have argued until the crack of doom, as far asI could see, when from the masthead c
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