. 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 . >t ^~ • ;**• -1 •>•,--•- •»: ^^-r ^aHRMM - ^^*«t^-^E5 wv •Pi^^-x^ttP •4*4 . .-. CHAPTER XXX THE CRUISER MATTERSON, Gleazen and the trader, Arnold, Abe andI, and the white girl and her great black servant, all werecrowded into a frail dugout, which must long since havefoundered, but for the marvelous skill of the big Fanteecanoeman and the sureness and steadiness with which thegirl had wielded her paddle. And now th
. 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 . >t ^~ • ;**• -1 •>•,--•- •»: ^^-r ^aHRMM - ^^*«t^-^E5 wv •Pi^^-x^ttP •4*4 . .-. CHAPTER XXX THE CRUISER MATTERSON, Gleazen and the trader, Arnold, Abe andI, and the white girl and her great black servant, all werecrowded into a frail dugout, which must long since havefoundered, but for the marvelous skill of the big Fanteecanoeman and the sureness and steadiness with which thegirl had wielded her paddle. And now the girl sat withher face buried in her hands and her shoulders shaking asshe sobbed; and the big black, awed and frightened by thenearness and strangeness of the good Adventure, was look-ing up at the men who had crowded to the rail above the brig came into the wind and lay beside the canoe,her yards sharply counter-braced, the long seas rose tothe gunwale of our heavily laden and waterlogged littlecraft, and she slowly filled and settled. We should have perished there and then, within anarms length of the solid planks that promised safety, hadnot Gideon North acted promptly. As the canoe set-tled and the water rose, I suddenly found myself swim-m
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