Very soon after the iron point touched against stone, and he was thrown backward, nearly losing the pole, while the boat was sent surging along on one side for a few moments, bumped on the other side, then back again as if she were being sent from side to side, and directly after the keel came upon a rock which seemed to slope up like a great boulder standing in their way.

There for a brief moment or two it was balanced, and made a plunge forward like a dive, the water came with a rush over the bows, and surged back to where Mike was kneeling, and then they were rushing onward again more swiftly than ever.
For a few moments the pair were too breathless to speak, but Vince recovered from the confusion caused by the shock and the rapidly following exciting incidents, and he shouted aloud,-- "Bale, Mike, bale! It's all right: we're out of that whirlpool, and we're going along again." "You've got the baler forward," said Mike huskily.
"Eh?
So I have in the locker here.

I say, how deep do you make the water?
There's hardly any here." "Only a few inches." "Then we're all right yet; but we may as well have that out." He felt for the locker, and drew out the old tin pot, crept aft to where his companion knelt, and, after lifting the board which covered in the keel depression, he began to toss out the water rapidly, and soon lowered it so that the pot began to scrape on the bottom, while Mike listened with a feeling of envy attacking him, for he felt that it must be a relief to be doing something instead of kneeling there listening and wondering whether the pursuing boat was anywhere near.
"There!" said Vince at last, in a triumphant tone; "that's different to baling when you feel that the water is coming in as fast as you throw it out.

I haven't got it all, but as much as I can without making a noise." He replaced the bottom board and then returned the pot to the locker, and Mike moved a little forward now to meet him half-way.
"Think we're going as fast now as ever ?" whispered Mike.
"Eh?
I don't know.

I was too busy to think about it.