gallias

As he drove under the stern of the gallias he hailed the skipper:

The Treasure Selma Lagerl��f 1899

They tried to tell him how they had discovered the trap laid for them and how they had succeeded in getting the heavy treasure chest away to the gallias and in collecting their countrymen; but Sir Archie paid no heed to their words.

The Treasure Selma Lagerl��f 1899

He went up to Sir Archie and told him he was sent by the skipper of the great gallias which lay in the ice behind Klovero.

The Treasure Selma Lagerl��f 1899

All night the skipper of the great gallias walked back and forth on his lofty poop.

The Treasure Selma Lagerl��f 1899

On the high poop of the gallias the skipper stood and watched them.

The Treasure Selma Lagerl��f 1899

But the skipper, who lay there with his great gallias full-laden with herring barrels, and who had been caught by the ice in a bay near Marstrand just as he was ready to put to sea, gave Torarin a sharp look and said: "So then you call this fine weather?"

The Treasure Selma Lagerl��f 1899

As the storm came sweeping over the icebound gallias it threw itself upon the vessel, as though from old habit it would drive her through the water.

The Treasure Selma Lagerl��f 1899

When they were come to the gallias, they said to the skipper: "We are come to fetch a young maiden who is dead.

The Treasure Selma Lagerl��f 1899