1 Our boats were rowing as well as sailing.
2 I rowed into the adjoining cove and up to the edge of the beach.
3 The men tried to row with the splinters, and had them shot out of their hands.
4 And it won't be comfortable in the boat rowing and sailing in this rainy weather.
5 And we had been compelled to row, in a dead calm, practically every inch of the way.
6 The jaw dropped, the upper lip lifted, and two rows of tobacco-discoloured teeth appeared.
7 I got out the oars and made her row, though she was so weak I thought she would faint at every stroke.
8 I rowed a couple of hundred feet along the beach so as to recover my nerves, and then stepped ashore again.
9 Here the sea was calm, save for a heavy but smooth ground-swell, and I took in the sea-anchor and began to row.
10 With a long running-line coiled down in the stem, I rowed well out into our little cove and dropped the anchor into the water.
11 Then the gaff swung to the side with an abrupt swiftness, the great sail boomed like a cannon, and the three rows of reef-points slatted against the canvas like a volley of rifles.
12 "Watch out for squalls, is all I can say to you," was Louis's warning, given during a spare half-hour on deck while Wolf Larsen was engaged in straightening out a row among the hunters.