Long John Silver
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We were clear out of the ship, but not yet ashore in our stockade.
End of Chapter sixteen
Chapter seventeen of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Chapter seventeen
Narrative continued by the doctor The Jolly Boat's Last Trip.
This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others.
In the first place, the little galley pot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded.
Five grown men, and three of them, Trelawney, Red Ruth, and the captain, over six feet high, was already more than she was meant to carry.
Add to that the powder, pork, and bread bags.
The gun whale was lipping astern.
Several times we shipped a little water, and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we had gone a hundred yards.
The captain made us trim the boat, and we got her to lie a little more evenly.
All the same, we were afraid to breathe.
In the second place the ebb was now making, a strong rippling current running westward through the basin, and then southward and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning.
Even the ripples were a danger to our overloaded craft, but the worst of it was that we were swept out of our true course and away from our proper landing place behind the point.
If we let the current have its way, we should come ashore beside the gigs, where the pirates might appear at any moment.
I cannot keep her head for the stockade, sir, said I to the captain.
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