Dick Leslie's Luck

Excerpt: ...between the brig and the shore, but also to venture out to sea in chase of a ship, should occasion to do so arise, Leslie felt himself free to proceed with the execution of his great plan for the establishment of a dockyard ashore, and the construction of a craft sufficiently substantial and seaworthy to convey him and his companion back to the world of civilisation. The first part of his task consisted in the erection of a spacious tent on shore for the accommodation of his com...