After that, he learned to lie in a
beach pool and let the wash of the waves just cover him and lift him up while he paddled, but he always kept his eye open for big waves that might hurt.
He left me abruptly, and went up the
beach past this group, and I think entered the enclosure.
An island it certainly was, one of the Marin group, fringed with a sandy
beach and surrounded by a sea of mud.
Yahoo!" I shouted, when I thought it was meet to arouse Maud; but this time I shouted in merriment as I danced about the
beach, bareheaded, in mock despair.
But I was still on the same
beach, and I saw them distinctly now as soon as I stopped.
Fortunately a little rivulet trickled down the side of the rocky wall, giving us ample supply of fresh water--some of which I kept constantly beside the hyaenodon in a huge, bowl-shaped shell, of which there were count-less numbers among the rubble of the
beach.
Chance carried me to the very
beach upon which I had discovered Ja's canoe, and a short time later I was scrambling up the steep bank to retrace my steps from the plain of Phutra.
The mighty mass of water fell in thunder on the
beach, but beyond appeared a yellow head, one arm out-reaching, and a portion of a shoulder.
The moment he saw the old rover on the
beach, he ran up to him, the natives following after, and forming a circle round them.
Half a dozen boys carried it down the
beach, while he rode on the back of another, his arms around the black's neck, one hand clutching a prayer-book.
Billings, having arrived at a decision, lost no time in acting, with the result that before mid-afternoon we had landed all the large boxes marked "H" upon the
beach, and were busily engaged in opening them.
He turned away casually and strolled along the
beach out of the circle of lantern light.