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My sloop, under her bare, writhing pole, was scudding across this deserted ocean with no haven in sight and I was without hope of rescue. With the coming of daylight I would have tried to get some canvas on the Wavecrest if only a rag of jib had the gale not been so terrific. I doubted if, under a pocket-handkerchief of sail, I could have got her head around without swamping her.
"This is good isn't it, eh? life in a boarding-house quite new to you; but they are civilized now compared to what you'll find them in the drawing-room. When short whist for five-penny points sets in then Greek meets Greek, and we'll have it." During all this melee tournament, I perceived that the worthy jib as he would be called in the parlance of Trinity, Mr.
Take in the studding-sl's and stow the flying jib. It was time; the squall was on us, and the vessel began to heel. 'Ah, said the captain, 'we have still too much canvas set; all hands lower the mains'l! Five minutes after, it was down; and we sailed under mizzen-tops'ls and to'gall'nt sails.
"That's so," said Marjorie, contritely; "it's horrid of me, I know, and I'll stop it. But she did look like a flyaway jib!" "What is a flyaway jib?" said her father, with an air of one seeking information. "I haven't an idea," said Mops, laughing; "but I know I've heard of it somewhere." "And so you describe a girl whom you don't know, in words whose meaning you don't know!
In a word, that which both Raoul and Ithuel had fancied an islet was neither more nor less than a ship. The stranger's head was to the northward, and his motion, before a light southerly air, could not have exceeded a knot an hour. He had no other canvas spread than his three topsails and jib; though his courses were hanging in the brails.
At length the breeze reached us, and we made sail with our convoy to the southward and eastward, the lumbering merchantmen crowding every inch of canvass, while we could hardly keep astern, under close reefed topsails, foresail, jib, and spanker. "Pipe to breakfast," said the Captain to Mr Yerk. "A sail abeam of us to windward!"
By the time I had got the blankets off and had thrust my head above the level of the cabin hatch the figure was already in the bows, and, as a matter of course, hoisting the jib.
"Stand by to let that jib over, you Oofty!" Wolf Larsen commanded, the very second we had finished with the boat. "Kelly, come aft and slack off the main-sheet! You, Kerfoot, go for'ard and see what's become of Cooky! Mr. Van Weyden, run aloft again, and cut away any stray stuff on your way!" And having commanded, he went aft with his peculiar tigerish leaps to the wheel.
The young ladies liked to appear in nautical and lawn-tennis toilet, carried so far that one might refer to the "cut of their jib," and their minds were not much given to any elaborate dressing for evening.
As he spoke, the fiery disk of the sun was slipping into the ocean across the starboard bow. With sunset the breeze lightened perceptibly, and Job ordered the reefs shaken out of the fore and mainsails and an extra jib set. Then he and the boys, who, although they had quarters aft, had been assigned to the port watch, went below and turned in.
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