B. Thirty-five spear-heads, solid and very heavy.
C. Fifteen gold daggers, similar to that brought away from the island by Doris herself.
D. Fifteen larger and curiously shaped knives.
E. One hundred or more fish-hooks.
F. Nineteen nuggets of gold of various sizes—one immense nugget weighed 149 pounds!
(The largest nugget ever found weighed over 180 pounds. It was dug up, I believe, at Ballarat.—G.S.)
No wonder these two men were excited.
“I say, sir,” said Chips, “I guess you’ll splice the main-brace to-night.”
“That we will with pleasure,” replied Halcott.
“And,” cried Tom Wilson, “I’ll fiddle as I’ve never fiddled before. I’ll make all hands laugh one minute, and I’ll have them all crying the next.”