There was no cheering now , for I think they had other uses for what breath was left them ; but they still stuck to the trail , and doubtless thought that we were close in front of them . Alan watched them , smiling to himself . `` Ay , '' said he , `` they 'll be gey weary before they 've got to the end of that employ ! And so you and me , David , can sit down and eat a bite , and breathe a bit longer , and take a dram from my bottle . Then we 'll strike for Aucharn , the house of my kinsman , James of the Glens , where I must get my clothes , and my arms , and money to carry us along ; and then , David , we 'll cry , ` Forth , Fortune ! ' and take a cast among the heather . '' So we sat again and ate and drank , in a place whence we could see the sun going down into a field of great , wild , and houseless mountains , such as I was now condemned to wander in with my companion . Partly as we so sat , and partly afterwards , on the way to Aucharn , each of us narrated his adventures ; and I shall here set down so much of Alan 's as seems either curious or needful . It appears he ran to the bulwarks as soon as the wave was passed ; saw me , and lost me , and saw me again , as I tumbled in the roost ; and at last had one glimpse of me clinging on the yard . It was this that put him in some hope I would maybe get to land after all , and made him leave those clues and messages which had brought me -LRB- for my sins -RRB- to that unlucky country of Appin . In the meanwhile , those still on the brig had got the skiff launched , and one or two were on board of her already , when there came a second wave greater than the first , and heaved the brig out of her place , and would certainly have sent her to the bottom , had she not struck and caught on some projection of the reef . When she had struck first , it had been bows-on , so that the stern had hitherto been lowest . But now her stern was thrown in the air , and the bows plunged under the sea ; and with that , the water began to pour into the fore-scuttle like the pouring of a mill-dam . It took the colour out of Alan 's face , even to tell what followed . For there were still two men lying impotent in their bunks ; and these , seeing the water pour in and thinking the ship had foundered , began to cry out aloud , and that with such harrowing cries that all who were on deck tumbled one after another into the skiff and fell to their oars . They were not two hundred yards away , when there came a third great sea ; and at that the brig lifted clean over the reef ; her canvas filled for a moment , and she seemed to sail in chase of them , but settling all the while ; and presently she drew down and down , as if a hand was drawing her ; and the sea closed over the Covenant of Dysart . Never a word they spoke as they pulled ashore , being stunned with the horror of that screaming ; but they had scarce set foot upon the beach when Hoseason woke up , as if out of a muse , and bade them lay hands upon Alan . They hung back indeed , having little taste for the employment ; but Hoseason was like a fiend , crying that Alan was alone , that he had a great sum about him , that he had been the means of losing the brig and drowning all their comrades , and that here was both revenge and wealth upon a single cast . It was seven against one ; in that part of the shore there was no rock that Alan could set his back to ; and the sailors began to spread out and come behind him . `` And then , '' said Alan , `` the little man with the red head -- I havenae mind of the name that he is called . ''
`` Riach , '' said I. `` Ay '' said XXXXX , `` Riach !
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