drogher

After due discussion they hired a drogher, a country vessel employed in running between the surrounding islands and islets.

Away flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean.

They, at all events, congratulated themselves that they had not been on board the drogher when she was blown away from Saba.

Higson made a leap into the boat, which shoved off just as the drogher, giving a slight roll, sank from sight.

It proves, however, that the crew of the drogher must have been sober, or they could not have found their way clear of it.