Here she comes again, and the schooner ain't built that'd stand such hammering."
Nevertheless, the bore of her displacement lifted the schooner's stern gently and made her dip her bow to the sea in a stately curtsey.
Suo was a harbor so small that a large
schooner could not swing at anchor in it.
It was early morning, and even before the anchor went to the bottom the
schooner was surrounded by boats.
A little red dory, labelled Hattie S., lay astern of the
schooner. Dan hauled in the painter, and dropped lightly on to the bottom boards, while Harvey tumbled clumsily after.
At last the breeze came; the
schooner sidled and drew nearer in the dark; I felt the hawser slacken once more, and with a good, tough effort, cut the last fibres through.
A large launch, with two standing lugs, lay under the lea of the
schooner; and into this the strange assortment of goods were swung.
As they headed in for the sandspit, the submerged salmon boat could be seen, gunwales awash and held up from sinking by ropes fast to the
schooner and the sloop.
The cabin was small, to begin with, and to move around, as I was compelled to, was not made easier by the
schooner's violent pitching and wallowing.
The result of her effort was the knowledge that on the second day they were to sail for the Pamarung Islands upon a small
schooner which her father had purchased, with a crew of Malays and lascars, and von Horn, who had served in the American navy, in command.
And I sent a
schooner clear to Hawaii to bring back a dismantled sugar mill and a German who said he knew the field-end of cane.
Sheldon was back in the plantation superintending the building of a bridge, when the
schooner Malakula ran in close and dropped anchor.