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Ah! Company! Company with BOAT!
Maybe they have TOBACCO
Based on the way the boat is secured, I guess boat-having person (or people) didn't plan to be there for long. I wonder if encountering Harry will change their plans.
Wait, a literal branch door ? That's not fishy at all. (I suspect it's too close to the shore to have grown on stone ruins, but who knows)
Kinda fair for her to go ask first and nick the boat later.
I would say "It's a Trap!" except last time I said that I got a smack on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.
No bet.
Are we about to meet the Island Witch, or is it too soon in the chapter for that?
It wouldn't surprise me if the Island witch isn't a person at all, but whatever was making that scary noise from earlier. Maybe some sort of beast, or even a spirit itself. We've seen and heard the letter from the Mountain witch, but only got a present from the Island one.
Just because it might not be human doesn't mean it's not a person.
Maybe the 'island witch' is a taniwha
Is so, then Harry had better make sure her rifle is in working order.
Harry: "THEY SENT A BOAT!"
(waitaminute.....)
Harry could've totally pulled a You're Welcome (ie the song from Moana), but she's too... something for that. (Principled? Curious? Stubborn? All three?)
Curious, perhaps.
Tone deaf?
Just as well if you don't take that boat, Harry, it's not going to get you all the way back to England.
I know you're just kidding around here, but if someone took a boat TO the island with nothing but a paddle, it stands to reason you can get back FROM the island similarly. She doesn't need the boat to get her to England, just to the mainland. Once there, she can hopefully make her way to some a town or village. From there, get directions to the nearest port, find a ship captain she can barter with for passage and, even if shes' not quite back in England, she's at least progressing in that direction.
(Though was Australia still a penal colony at this point? The opposite side of the globe from the British Isles puts her somewhere southeast of New Zealand, but I don't know enough about the history of the region to know when Europeans got there or what non-Europeans might have had enough trade with the mainland to get her on a boat.)
In any event, kidding aside, a paddle boat isn't as completely useless to her as it might at first seem. Though she's adopting rather an aggressive stance for asking directions.
Do we know if Australia was ever a penal colony in this world? New Zealand isn't New Zealand, after all.
I tend to assume that Widdershins history matches up to real-world history except where specifically pointed out to diverge (eg much earlier legal equality for women, at least in England, no evidence yet in any direction for other places). Might be a bit too much of an assumption, but I figure since major history beats like the Hundred Years' War (Joan of Arc, specifically), the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and assorted other bits and pieces seem pretty similar, it seems reasonable to me.
The NZ/Aotearoa thing makes me wonder if the whole colonialism thing worked out differently, though.
What's wrapped around the barrel of her gun in the last panel? It looks like a vine, except I don't see one on her person or near the boat in any of the preceding panels, so I'm not sure where it would've come from.
EDIT: Oh, I think it's the strap that she had it slung over her shoulder with just flailing around loose.
Ah, I was trying to figure that out too. Looks like you got it.
I think both your guesses are right - she’s been using a vine as a makeshift strap to carry her gun.
Actually, I think she's giving the gun/rifle a little fillip specifically to get the strap to wrap around it, out of her way. I think it's a brilliant piece of artwork!
I only hope she knows what day of the week it is!
Harry will have to trade rowing the whole way back for a ride on the boat.
This is either the best news or the worst news.
But is it the best news or the worst news?
Hint: the answer is 'yes'
A BOAT! The gods have sent me-
No?
Awwww.
I gotta say...those sure don't look like human footprints leading away from the boat.
Wait, don't you want the bait? WhoopsImeantBOAT?
OOO a boat?
If you go down into the island's woods today,
you're in for a big surprise...
And now you've got water in your shoes, Harry, I sure hope you don't have to walk far. For all her wonderful talents, you can tell she's a city kid without much outdoors experience. <_<