Chapter 14—Commodore Urrican’s Adventures, Continued
The weather was uncertain. The breeze blew rather fresh from the east. The sea, defended by the long breakwater of the Florida peninsula, was not yet affected by the long Atlantic rollers, and the Chicola bore herself well.
There was no fear of either the commodore or Turk being troubled by the sea-sickness of which Tom Crabbe had been such a victim; and they were ready to help Huelcar and his three men in working the schooner if she got into difficulties.
The Chicola, with the wind ahead, went off on the starboard tack, so as to keep in shelter of the land. The voyage would be long, no doubt; but the storms in the gulf are dangerous, and a small vessel could not venture far from the ports, bays, creeks and estuaries that are so numer
