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Chapter XIV. The Cabin of the “Flying Scud.”
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The sun of the morrow had not cleared the morning bank: the lake of the lagoon1, the islets, and the wall of breakers now beginning to subside3, still lay clearly pictured in the flushed obscurity of early day, when we stepped again upon the deck of the Flying Scud4: Nares, myself, the mate, two of the hands, and one dozen bright, virgin5 axes, in war against that massive structure. I think we all drew pleasurable breath; so profound in man is the instinct of destruction, so engaging is the interest of the chase. For we were now about to taste, in a supreme7 degree, the double joys of demolishing8 a toy and playing “Hide the handkerchief”: sports from which we had all perhaps desisted since the days of infancy9. And the toy we were to burst in pieces was a deep-sea ship; and the hidden good for which we were to hunt was a prodigious10 fortune.
The decks were washed down, the main hatch removed, and a gun-tackle purchase rigged before the boat arrived with breakfast. I had grown so suspicious of the wreck12, that it was a positive relief to me to look down into the hold, and see it full, or nearly full, of undeniable rice packed in the Chinese fashion in boluses of matting. Breakfast over, Johnson and the hands turned to upon the cargo13; while Nares and I, having smashed open the skylight and rigged up a windsail on deck, began the work of rummaging14 the cabins.
I must not be expected to describe our first day’s work, or (for that matter) any of the rest, in order and detail as it occurred. Such particularity might have been possible for several officers and a draft of men from a ship of war, accompanied by an experienced secretary with a knowledge of shorthand. For two plain human beings, unaccustomed to the use of the broad-
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herald
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