. The adventures of a tropical tramp. THE LIGHTER AND TUG ANCHOR THEMSELVES BY RUNNING UPON THE MUDDY BANK. IN THE DRY SEASON RAGING TORRENTS BECOME SHALLOW STREAMS Down the Ucayali to the Amazon 307 The sailors danced jigs all over the deck. Eventhe pilot left the wheel to stand on his head andwave his bare feet in the wonder we ran hard and fast on a sandbar. This time we were lodged fast. All dancingstopped, while the crow w^orked feverishly to getus off. Each sailor evolved his own plan andworked with all his might, irrespective of whathis neighbor was doing. The commandante per-spi
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. THE LIGHTER AND TUG ANCHOR THEMSELVES BY RUNNING UPON THE MUDDY BANK. IN THE DRY SEASON RAGING TORRENTS BECOME SHALLOW STREAMS Down the Ucayali to the Amazon 307 The sailors danced jigs all over the deck. Eventhe pilot left the wheel to stand on his head andwave his bare feet in the wonder we ran hard and fast on a sandbar. This time we were lodged fast. All dancingstopped, while the crow w^orked feverishly to getus off. Each sailor evolved his own plan andworked with all his might, irrespective of whathis neighbor was doing. The commandante per-spired and tore his hair, and stuck out the part ofhis face where he imagined his chin to be, andscreamed orders. No one listened. After an hour or two, the launch worked itselfloose. It had been lashed alongside the one, working out his own individual plan,cut the lashings, and the launch drifted downstream, leaving us behind. Some one threw thema rope, but it only became entangled in the pro-peller. By the time they had it untangled, theswift stream had carried the launch onto anothersandba
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