CHAPTER VIII
That night at midnight, when Lavelle relieved Chang at the steering oar, the c******n told him that it was hopeless to go as they were going.
"This boat no can do. Go loo'ard all time. All same like crab—go sideways."
Lavelle had observed this early in the afternoon when the wind had sprung up from the northeast and he had laid a course to the eastward. Such boats as this, lapstreaked and air-tanked, practically keelless and without centerboard or leeboard, were never built for sailing and least of all on the wind.
"See," said Chang, flashing an electric pocket torch which had been found among the boat's outfit. "Look him now, master." The light was on the boat compass. "Make him now eas' by sou'. One time turn all loun'. 'Nother time eas'sou'eas'—sou'eas' by eas'—fi' slix
