[The Masters of the Peaks by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Masters of the Peaks CHAPTER XI 23/33
The canoe, too, is afloat upon its bosom and is, as you say, out at sea.
We and it must meet or we are lost.
Are you weary, Dagaeoga ?" "Not yet.
I can still swim for quite a while." "Then float a little, and we can take the exact course of the wind again. The canoe, of course, will continue to go the way the wind goes." "Unless it's deflected by currents which do not always follow the wind." "I do not notice any current, and to follow the wind is our only hope.
The mists and vapors will hide the canoe from us until we are very close to it" "And you may thank Tododaho that they will hide something else also. Unless I make a great mistake, Tayoga, I hear the swish of paddles." "You make no mistake, Dagaeoga.
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