⛵ ⛵ ⛵ ⛵...(Tour of "High Island")...Continued...
[Last time...]
“Sounding numbers! I’m sure of it! My ship is approaching!” He exclaimed in great joy, “Come on, down to the water, hurry!”
“Sounding numbers?!” Leyla replied in confusion.
“Never mind! Hurry Leyla!”
Lupega beat a straight path through the brush towards the river’s bank. The current was slowing slightly the further north they travelled. It was growing deeper and wider as it approached the Great Lake Ontario.
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[On the bank of the river Niagara…]
Standing Officer-Boatswain Lupega quickly waded out to knee-deep water and held his hands to his brow to block the late afternoon sun. Suddenly, from around a western bend in the river, the long, great bowsprit of a ship slowly made its appearance…
”My ship! My ship!” Lupega cried, jumping up and down out of the water.
Leyla quickly waded out to join him and gazed down the shimmering current of the river to see the forecastle of a great ship emerge from behind the cedar tree-line...
“I se it Lupega! I see it!” She confirmed, “But how do you know it is your ship?”
“I'm not a fool! I’m sure it’s my ship!” He replied excitedly and then cupped his hands together and cried out with all his might…
<<< ”Ahoy! Ahoy!!” >>>
Though the ship was nearly a quarter of a mile north on the river, his strong voice carried clearly across the water…
[On the Silverton…forecastle deck…]
Able Seaman Tesaganewton and Seamen Slothlydoesit and Tokenpimp were busy untangling the web of forward jib sails as suddenly a faint voice caught their ears...
“I thought I heard a voice?” Slothlydoesit said as he stood up straight and gazed south along the river, “Look- there’s people in the river upstream!”
Tesaganewton strained his eyes and finally saw the small shapes of two figures on the east bank of the river, several hundred feet upstream…
“You’re right!” He agreed as he turned towards the forecastle stairs, “We’ve got to tell the officers!”
Together the three men bolted down to the main deck and caught up with Lieutenant Bleujay…
“Lieutenant Sairrr!” Tesaga called out with a quick salute.
“What is it seaman?”
“Two people!” Tesaga said catching his breath, “There’s two people in the river upstream!”
“What?!” Bleujay gasped as she broke into a run and scaled the forecastle steps in a hurry.
It was then that she heard it…..
"Ahoy! Ahoy there!”, A faint voice cried out frantically.
”Potzblitz!” (Upon my soul…) She muttered to herself as she dashed over to the ship’s bell and began ringing it hard!
Up on the bridge, Commander Galligan grabbed the front rail and yelled out, ”What’s the dither?!”
Bleujay let loose of the bell ringer and yelled back, ”Two people in the river upstream!”
”In the river?! Are you sure?!”
”Positive Sairrr!”
”Are they traders?!” Galligan yelled back quickly.
Bleujay turned back around and set her gaze on the two figures who were closer now than moments before…
”No Sairrr! A man and a woman!”
Galligan quickly yelled out the general command for assembly as he ran down the steps to the main deck!
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📝 Note: "If th' Toor o' High Islain' has caught yer intrest, all o' me stoatin' adventures kin be foond by searchin':
Silver Adventures of Captain Joshua Slane
Oan yer 'Hife Search tool' an' sae forth." 😉 -Keptin
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References: - Pictures from: www.freeimages.com, www.pexels.com, pixabay.com, Hive.blog, Wikipedia an’ www.google.com/maps. Data also loosely interpretted froms: historica.fandom.com, Wikipedia, an' sometimes finely crafted reit from th' author's extensiff personal experience an' such.
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