king into the boat. They were, fortunately, rested; and the flesh
of the nutritious sword-fish had restored their strength.

"Pull away, boys; pull away!" sung out Nub. "It's a long lane dat has
no turning. We better off dan on de raft, which de sea would have
washed over ebery moment. Here we pretty dry--only have to keep de oars
moving. Pull away, boys; pull away!"

"That's the right spirit, Nub," said the mate. "I only wish that I
could sing as you do."

"I sing to cheer up Missie Alice," said Nub in a low voice. "I don't
tink I could sing oderwise."

Walter had learned to steer well, and kept the boat's head carefully to
the seas, so that she rose over each of them as they came hissing by.
The wind was blowing on the land; and though the boat's head was turned
the other way, she was in reality drifting towards it. Without a sail
they could not attempt to put her stem to the seas, and they must
therefore remain in their present position until the weather should
again moderate: when that might be it was impossible to say. However,
the mate and Nub, being happily inured to hard work, could keep on
rowing for many hours together.

Thus the night passed away; and when daylight returned, the rolling seas
hissing and bubbling around them were alone to be seen. They naturally
looked out for the raft. The boat had just risen on the crest of a
rolling wave, when Nub exclaimed, "I see de raft on de larboard hand,"--
and he pointed with his chin to indicate the direction; "but it look
bery much knocked about."

"But I see it on the starboard bow," exclaimed Walter. "It seems to me
as if it had kept perfectly together, though the mast has gone."

"How can that be?" exclaimed the mate, looking round in the direction
towards which Nub was pointing. "Yes, you are right, Nub; that's our
raft, sure enough. And now, Walter, I will try to get a look at what
you say is a raft." The mate managed, while pulling, to slew himself
sufficiently round to look in the direction in which Walter pointed.
"Sure enough, Walter, that's also a raft," he exclaimed,--"a much larger
one than ours; but whether or not any people are on it I cannot make
out."

CHAPTER TEN.

ON BOARD THE "CHAMPION"--MUTINY--FIRE BREAKS OUT--THE CREW, WITH THE
DOCTOR AND TIDY, ESCAPE ON A RAFT--RUM, AND ITS EFFECTS--MEN LOST--STEER
AWAY FROM THE DEAD WHALE--RUM CAUSES THE DEATH OF MOST OF THE PARTY--A
MURDER--THE SURVIVORS RECEIVED ON BOARD THE B