The Mate of the Vancouver — page 160: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

148 THE MATE OF THE VANCOUVER. a strange way ; even if it was only an accident - or mere coincidence afier all. Yet I have seen many things put down as “coincl- dences ” which puzzled me, and wiser people than Tom Ticehurst. BS We had camped in a wretchedly miserable ‘ * spot, which had nothing to recommend it - beyond the fact that there really was some grass there; for the wall of rock on our : right, which both Mac and Bill considered a protection from the wind, acted as break- | winds often do, and gave us two gales in a) : _ Opposite directions, instead of one. So the wind, instead of sweeping over us and going | e on its way, fought and contended over our yak pa as Remepaa Be TNR ees Se heads, and only ceased for a moment to rush _ skrieking again about our ears as it leapt on the fire and sent the embers here and there, while the rain descended at every possible . angle. Perhaps it was on account of the fizzing of the water in the fire, the rattle branches overhead, and the whistling aA Sh SET RN RAD ISL RS RI i RI ARE REE TERT AE