| I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin. |
| In the morning I would gather some provisions in the dingey, and after setting fire to the pyre before me, push out into the desolation of the high sea once more. |
| The tide was full and the dingey was off keel. The punt nosed the pebbly slope like a terrier, but her stern swung clear. |
| I crouched in the bottom of the dingey, stunned, and staring blankly at the vacant, oily sea. |
| I heard the bows ground in the sand, staved the dingey off the rudder of the big boat with my piggin, and freeing the painter, landed. |
