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"Long boat's stove!" shouted the mate, putting his hands to his mouth so as to be heard through the gale. "All hands aft!" was the next order. "Stand by to launch the quarter-boats!" So the entire remaining crew two mates and eight men, including the steward splashed and clambered on to the quarter-deck and took station by the boat-falls, hanging on as they could.
My mother isn't well really! When I left her an hour ago, you might have supposed that we were parting for a year. And then, besides I had an omen a mysterious warning...." Varney's gaze became fixed. "A warning?" She laughed. "A rather queer and scary one! I'll tell you presently." "My dear," said Mrs. Marne, when Varney had turned to explain the working of the boat-falls to Hare, "who is he?
Why boat no here?" pointing to the davits and the pendant boat-falls. "Sea break all boat," said the Peruvian quickly. And then, seeing the look of disappointment on the man's face, he added, "But never mind. You come below. I have handsome present for you." "All right, cap'en," answered the old man with a pleased smile, as he turned and beckoned to the other natives to follow him.
Now arose from the mouth of every seaman on deck the joyful cry of "A fall, a fall!" at the same time that every one jumped and stamped on deck, to arouse the sleepers below to hasten to the assistance of their comrades. We all then rushed to the boat-falls. Never, apparently, were a set of men in such a desperate hurry.
Without in the least relaxing his exertions, he rolled his eyes over the ship, and answered with a steadiness that showed him to be a man accustomed to situations of hazard. "His boat-falls are as loose as a mermaid's locks, your Honor, and he shows few men in his tops; there are enough of the rogues left, however, to give us another shot." "Her Majesty's servants are early awake, this morning.
Well, sir, I saw them off next morning, down that new Jacob's-ladder into the dinghy-boat, her in a dress of blue velvet and him in his best cutaway and derby rowing away, smaller and smaller, the two of them. And then I went back and sat on my cot, leaving the door open and the ladder still hanging down the wall, along with the boat-falls. I don't know whether it was relief, or what.
On board the schooner Barry drove his men to boat-falls in hasty endeavor to get a boat over; but the effort could have only proved fruitless, for the stream ran like a mill race around those writhing, twisting grasses that endlessly bent, straightened, and twined, and the undertow was appalling.
Following upon that the boat-falls ripped through the blocks, and a lot of men began to talk in startled tones under the awnings. "When these beggars did break out, their yelps were enough to wake the dead," he said. Next, after the splashing shock of the boat literally dropped in the water, came the hollow noises of stamping and tumbling in her, mingled with confused shouts: "Unhook! Unhook!
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