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Crew, three men and a monkey. All insensible hallo!" The "hallo!" with which the second mate finished his remark was so unlike his wonted tone, and so full of genuine surprise, that the captain ran forward with unusual haste, and found a canoe smashed to pieces against the foremast, and the mate held a lantern close to the face of one of the men while the crew were examining the others.
Bill, rig yer winch a couple o' yards this way an' stake her down. Keep ten men wid ye an' the rest o' ye can follow me. But not too close, mind ye! Fetch yer axes along, an' every man o' ye a line." Three minutes later, the skipper was sliding down the foremast, with Nick Leary close above him, another man already on the cross-trees and yet another in mid-air on the hawser.
One of its principal offices is to support the foremast and fore-topmast, by means of their stays, as the slanting ropes are called which stretch forwards and downwards from the head of every mast, great and small, in the ship.
But she carried a main- topmast staysail which was a fine big sail, the stay reaching from the main-topmast cross-trees down to the foremast within about ten feet of the deck, and this sail we now got on her, with great advantage, her speed at once increasing to nearly four knots.
When I played halfback I remember my signals were my order relating to the foremast. For instance, 'Fore-top-gallant clew lines and hands-by-the-halyards' meant that I was the victim.
During the engagement a barrel of powder blew up in the steward room of the Minion, by which misfortune the master-gunner, the steward, and most of the gunners were sore hurt. On perceiving this, the gallies became more fierce, and with one shot cut half through the Minions foremast, so that she could bear no sail till that were repaired.
The cap is a stout block joining the bottom of one mast to the top of another; as where the foretopmast joins the foremast. Foremast, foretopmast, etc. See Mast. Fore-reach. To gain upon or pass; to beat in sailing. Foreyard. The lowest yard on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel. Grapnel. A boat's anchor having more than two flukes. Come to grapnel, cf. Come to anchor. Half-galleys.
"He struck the mainmast with his hand, The foremast with his knee " All that he had been and all that he had done, if man were only something more than man, if devil's luck and devil's power would come to his whistle, if the seed of his nature could defy the iron stricture of the flesh, reaching its height, shooting up into a terrible upas-tree so for the moment Baldry saw himself.
At daybreak Dodd was on deck, and found the ship flying through a fog so thick that her forecastle was quite invisible from the poop, and even her foremast loomed indistinct and looked distant. "You'll be foul of something or other, Sharpe," said he. "What is that to you?" inquired a loud rough voice behind him. "I don't allow passengers to handle my ship."
It ain't to be expected that men will run the risk of going to jail for regular foremast hands' wages. They want more money, and it's right that they should have it. Why, them blockade-runners I told you about paid their hands five hundred dollars apiece for the run to Nassau and back. What do you think of that?" "Of course it is good wages.
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