1
But, with the chief boatman watching the pier-head, she would be discovered to a certainty.
2
Stay!' she cried to the chief boatman.
3
The chief boatman shook his head:
4
Stephen stood on the edge of the cliff with the old whaler and the chief boatman and some of the women.
5
I have posted Beesley in charge, and sent the chief boatman off to the pier-head to keep a close watch on the steamer.
6
Only once was he disturbed, and that was when the chief boatman came to him and sat down, and after a pause said:
7
The chief boatman waded through, and reported yet another passage beyond; but of course I wouldn't let my men waste time in exploring it.
8
"A rocket, sir," said the chief boatman; "just sent up from Prussia Cove."
9
"Yet I left word with the chief boatman," mused Mr. Rogers.
10
"Here's a job for you, my lad," said the chief boatman.
11
"Poor fellow!" murmured the chief boatman to himself; "he takes it to heart.
12
"It's vary terrible, vary terrible indeed, sir," said Sandy MacGregor, an old Scotchman and the chief boatman.
13
"And so many brave souls on board; and, perhaps, some of them not ready, Mr. Beer," says the serious elderly chief boatman.
