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They seemed to want to halt between two opinions: to keep up their orgies on the one hand, and to make much of the white teacher on the other; and when we recollect that two unarmed Englishmen, and twelve blacks from other islands, were perfectly isolated in the midst of a heathen population, having refused protection from a British man-of-war, it gives a grandeur to the following narrative:
A suspicious sail, Mrs Ferguson, merely implies in fact, that they do not know what she is." "Is that all it means?" replied Mrs Ferguson, with an incredulous look. "Nothing more, madam; nothing more, I assure you." "Commodore has made a signal that strange vessel is a man-of-war bearing down," said the second-mate, again entering the cabin.
Wall, there wuz one of the anchors, and the canvas used by Columbus on board his flag-ship. The very canvas that the wind swelled out and wafted the great Discoverer. O my heart, think on't! And then there wuz the ruins of the little town of Isabella, the first established in the new world, brung lately from San Domingo by a man-of-war.
I should not have mentioned this well-known remedy, as it has long been superseded by other nostrums, were it not that this maritime prescription has been the origin of two modern improvements in the medical catalogue one is the stomach-pump, evidently borrowed from this simple engine; the other is the very successful prescription now in vogue, to those who are weak in the digestive organs, to eat fat bacon for breakfast, which I have no doubt was suggested to Doctor Vance, from what he had been eye-witness to on board of a man-of-war.
Captain Halstead died on the 17th of May, 1778, and, in July following, he was succeeded by Commander David Laird, under whom, either as a hospital, or a prison ship, she remained in Wallabout bay, until she was abandoned at the close of the war, to her fate, which was to rot in the mud at her moorings, until, at last, she sank, and for many years her wretched worm-eaten old hulk could be seen at low tide, shunned by all, a sorry spectacle, the ghost of what had once been a gallant man-of-war.
Then come in succession the following routine orders, and their correspondent evolutions: "Reef topsails!" "Stand by the hammocks!" "Pipe down!" "Roll up the cloths!" "Call the watch!" "Pipe the sweepers!" And thus, at last, the first day of the week at sea, in a man-of-war, is at an end.
The pirates looked out anxiously to discover some of their consorts. Two were in sight in the far distance, but they beheld another spectacle, which filled them with alarm, while it made our hearts bound with hope. It was a square-rigged vessel, her topsails just visible above the horizon and from the squareness of her yards, and the whiteness of her canvas, we trusted that she was a man-of-war.
There have been more shots fired at this lugger than she could carry wore she loaded with them. And yet they never so much as knocked the paint off her before. There they go again! A fresh discharge burst from the man-of-war, but this time they had lost all trace of us, and were firing by guess. 'That is their last bark, sir, said Dicon. 'No fear.
Doubtless the important fact of the Purser having under his charge all the financial affairs of a man-of-war, imparts to him the great importance he enjoys. Indeed, we find in every government monarchies and republics alike that the personage at the head of the finances invariably occupies a commanding position.
Nothing short of kedging can ever take the wessel clear of the reefs to windward on us, and man-of-war kedging could hardly do it, then." "I am sorry to hear you say this," answered Mark, gloomily, "though I feared as much myself." "Men is men, sir, and you can get no more out on 'em than is in 'em.
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