I have my watch here in my hand ; I give you thirty seconds to join me in . '' There was a pause . `` Come , my fine fellow , '' continued the captain ; `` do n't hang so long in stays . I 'm risking my life and the lives of these good gentlemen every second . '' There was a sudden scuffle , a sound of blows , and out burst Abraham Gray with a knife cut on the side of the cheek , and came running to the captain like a dog to the whistle . `` I 'm with you , sir , '' said he . And the next moment he and the captain had dropped aboard of us , and we had shoved off and given way . We were clear out of the ship , but not yet ashore in our stockade . 17 Narrative Continued by the Doctor : The Jolly-boat 's Last Trip THIS fifth trip was quite different from any of the others . In the first place , the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded . Five grown men , and three of them -- Trelawney , Redruth , and the captain -- over six feet high , was already more than she was meant to carry . Add to that the powder , pork , and bread-bags . The gunwale was lipping astern . Several times we shipped a little water , and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we had gone a hundred yards . The captain made us trim the boat , and we got her to lie a little more evenly . All the same , we were afraid to breathe . In the second place , the ebb was now making -- a strong rippling current running westward through the basin , and then south ` ard and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning . Even the ripples were a danger to our overloaded craft , but the worst of it was that we were swept out of our true course and away from our proper landing-place behind the point . If we let the current have its way we should come ashore beside the gigs , where the pirates might appear at any moment . `` I can not keep her head for the stockade , sir , '' said I to the captain .
I was steering , while he and XXXXX , two fresh men , were at the oars .
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