Pluto-ma Nesia 23

 23. The Ebb-tide Runs

        _23. Plu Unda ki ab


THE coracle... was the most cross-grained, lop-sided craft to manage.
_U kapri navi pa es forti kontra e non-horizo navi de direkti.

By good fortune, paddle as I pleased, the tide was still sweeping me down; and there lay the HISPANIOLA...
_Tem mi tenta akti moti per moti-ru, plu unda pa du moti ab margina per boni okasio. U navi ISPANIOLA es la.

I was alongside of her hawser and had laid hold.
_Mi pa es lo tena-ru fi-fa, e tena id.

I made my mind up, took out my gully, opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after another, till the vessel swung only by two.
_Mi pa akti decide, moti ex u plika seka-ru, sti aperi de id per plu denti, e akti seka de mo fi po difere fi, a-kron u navi akti oscila per simpli bi fi.

All this time I had heard the sound of loud voices from the cabin...
Tem-co mi pa audi plu forti soni ex bi voka ex navi-cefa kamera.

One I recognized for the coxswain's, Israel Hands... The other was, of course, my friend of the red night-cap. Both men were plainly the worse of drink... It was plain that they were furiously angry.
_Mi este mo voka es de direkti-pe Israel Han. U difere es sura de amiko de mi ko rubi noktu kefa-ve. Bi-la andro habe narko per alkoholi bibe. Mu habe forti koleri; habe sura.

With a good, tough effort, cut the last fibres through.
_Mi pa akti seka de bi resta fi per forti tenta.

My hands came across a light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern bulwarks. Instantly I grasped it.
_Bi manu de mi pa detekti levia fi-fa; qi gene pende ab poste mura e tira trans aqa. Mi pa gene subito id.

I pulled in hand over hand on the cord...
_Mi pa tira se manu supra manu per fi-fa. 

I got my eye above the window-sill... It showed me Hands and his companion locked together in deadly wrestle, each with a hand upon the other's throat.
_Mi pa moti mo oku supra fenstra pla. Mi pa vide Han e kon-an anti alelo per sti-morta milita, bi mu ko manu epi kola de alelo.

I dropped upon the thwart again...
_Mi pa ki re ad infra.

Suddenly the schooner in front of me gave a violent yaw...
_U mega navi ante mi subito gene viole tropi.

I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker.
_Mi pa gene kumbe epi basi de u-la vani kapri navi, e lase religio u spiritu de mi a Face-pe de id.

Sleep at last supervened...
_U somni pa gene mi fini-kron.

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