ge pieces of timber. In the same manner he dragged from
the sea the numerous portions of chains which he found scattered among
the breakers.

Gilliatt worked at these tasks with astonishing activity and tenacity.
He accomplished whatever he attempted--nothing could withstand his
ant-like perseverance.

At the end of the week he had gathered into this granite warehouse of
marine stores, and ranged into order, all this miscellaneous and
shapeless mass of salvage. There was a corner for the tacks of sails and
a corner for sheets. Bow-lines were not mixed with halliards; parrels
were arranged according to their number of holes. The coverings of
rope-yarn, unwound from the broken anchorings, were tied in bunches; the
dead-eyes without pulleys were separated from the tackle-blocks.
Belaying-pins, bullseyes, preventer-shrouds, down-hauls, snatch-blocks,
pendents, kevels, trusses, stoppers, sailbooms, if they were not
completely damaged by the storm, occupied different compartments. All
the cross-beams, timber-work, uprights, stanchions, mast-heads,
binding-strakes, portlids, and clamps, were heaped up apart. Wherever it
was possible, he had fixed the fragments of planks, from the vessel's
bottom, one in the other. There was no confusion between reef-points and
nippers of the cable, nor of crow's-feet with towlines; nor of pulleys
of the small with pulleys of the large ropes; nor of fragments from the
waist with fragments from the stern. A place had been reserved for a
portion of the cat-harpings of the Durande, which had supported the
shrouds of the topmast and the futtock-shrouds. Every portion had its
place. The entire wreck was there classed and ticketed. It was a sort of
chaos in a storehouse.

A stay-sail, fixed by huge stones, served, though torn and damaged, to
protect what the rain might have injured.

Shattered as were the bows of the wreck, he had succeeded in saving the
two cat-heads with their three pulley-blocks.

He had found the bowsprit too, and had had much trouble in unrolling its
gammoning; it was very hard and tight, having been, according to custom,
made by the help of the windlass, and in dry weather. Gilliatt, however,
persevered until he had detached it, this thick rope promising to be
very useful to him.

He had been equally successful in discovering the little anchor which
had become fast in the hollow of a reef, where the receding tide had
left it uncovered.

In what had been Tangrouille's c