Suddenly Jim sprang to his feet, shouting excitedly,
"She's going! she's going!"
Slowly the Ocmulgee lifted her stern into the air; her weather-worn rudder rose dripping from the ocean; then her keel showed, foot by foot, draped with long streamers of seaweed, as if with a shroud.
She gave a heavy lurch forward, a plunge, and was gone, leaving nothing but a swirling eddy of tossing white water.
FOOTNOTES:
[11] "Goodbye" (Samoan).
CHAPTER IV
"THE OPEN BOAT"
Morning broke and showed the whaleboat floating a mere speck upon the heaving blue of the Pacific.