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As it continued to approach, the light became more vivid, the space below increased, and the water was ruffled with the coming wind, till at last the fog rolled off as if it had been gradually furled, and sweeping away in a heavy bank to leeward, exposed the state and position of the whole convoy, and the contending vessels.
But there happened to be a large clump of bush about a mile directly to leeward of the timber, extensive enough almost to conceal the Flying Fish behind it, while affording those on her deck a very clear and uninterrupted view of the movements of both hunters and hunted; and it was therefore decided to head the ship for this.
Jack had been in many a dangerous position; but in those days he had no wife to care for, and he had not the responsibilities of command. The night passed slowly away. When morning broke, the gale continued blowing as fiercely as ever, while the land to leeward looked unpleasantly near. Still steam was kept up, and the trusty screw was doing its best to drive the gallant ship ahead.
But soon, as if satisfied that his work for that time was done, he pushed his pleated forehead through the ocean, and trailing after him the intertangled lines, continued his leeward way at a traveller's methodic pace.
"Ah, yonder is his crippled consort! to leeward many a league. The gay bird has been too sadly stripped of its plumage, to fly so near the wind! This is man's fortune! He uses his power, at one moment, to destroy the very means that become necessary to his safety, the next." "And what think you of our hopes?" asked Alida, searching in the countenance of Ludlow a clue to their fate.
The men and boys all came in their overcoats and stood about on the leeward side of the schoolhouse where a pale sunlight fell and scuffled, and told stories, and bet cookies and apples on the election. Some of the boys made up fires out in the woods near by, to which they ran whooping whenever the cold became intolerable.
"I think I see the rocks on the beam to leeward, sir." "I believe you are right," replied Philip: "I cannot understand this. Ready about, and get a gun ready they must suppose us to be ahead of them, depend up on it." Hardly had Philip given the order, when the vessel struck heavily on the rocks. Philip hastened aft; he found that the rudder had been unshipped, and the vessel was immovably fixed.
A very large proportion of the stream of shipping bound to London passes inside the Goodwins or through the Downs, especially when the wind is south-west, inasmuch as if they went in west winds outside the Goodwins, they would find themselves a long way to leeward of the Gull buoy.
At first the only thing that we could clearly distinguish was that she was a full-rigged ship as were the Virginia and the Preciosa but, even so, there were certain details connected with her rig which, while not being exactly peculiar, corresponded with similar details referred to in the description of the two notorious slavers, as ascertained by Captain Perry; I therefore made a lantern signal to the Eros under the shelter of our mainsail, so that the stranger to leeward might not see our lights and take the alarm calling attention to the fact that there was a suspicious sail in sight to the south-west; and this signal was simply acknowledged without comment.
Three seas swept athwart her decks, before she minded her helm in the least, carrying with them every thing that was not most firmly lashed, or which had not animal life to direct its movements, away to leeward. They swept off the hen-coops, and ripped four or five water-casks from their lashings, even, as if the latter had been pack-thread.
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