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"Quartermaster, make the course east-north-east," said the first master, when his work had been duly approved by the instructor. "East-north-east, sir!" replied the quartermaster, who was conning the wheel that is, he was watching the compass, and seeing that the two wheelmen kept the ship on her course.
In this order they filed aboard softly, arrived at Noakes's den, the quartermaster pushed the door open, and the lantern revealed the three desperadoes sitting on the floor. Capt. Ned said: "I'm Ned Blakely. I've got you under fire. Don't you move without orders any of you. You two kneel down in the corner; faces to the wall now. Bill Noakes, put these handcuffs on; now come up close.
"No one has a right, sir, to give orders that are contrary in spirit to the regulations and customs of the service," answered the commander, with proper austerity. "Mr. Wilkins," he continued, as the burly quartermaster came bustling in, "have the other trooper sent to report at once to me and let this man wait outside till I am ready to see him."
The somber fears that had oppressed the quartermaster an hour earlier were retiring before a hope that then he dare not entertain. "You you stood by me like a trump, Burleigh," old Folsom was saying, "even after I'd abused you like a thief. If I can ever do you a good turn don't you fail to let me know."
Feared he was, and proud. They was the roughest crew afloat, was Flint's; the devil himself would have been feared to go to sea with them. Well now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you seen yourself how easy I keep company, but when I was quartermaster, LAMBS wasn't the word for Flint's old buccaneers. Ah, you may be sure of yourself in old John's ship."
The floor of the pilot-house slanted and Kit and the quartermaster fell against the wheel. Then there was a roar as a white-topped roller came up astern and broke about the vessel's rail in boiling foam. She lifted, struck again, and went on with an awkward lurch. "Port; hard over!" Mayne shouted hoarsely, and Kit helped the quartermaster to pull round the wheel.
"South-west by west," said the first master of the ship, giving out the course to the quartermaster, who was conning the wheel. There was only a lazy breeze in the German Ocean, and the squadron rolled slowly along towards the Straits of Dover.
Foreseeing difficulty in crossing the Tennessee River, I had written to Admiral Porter, at Cairo, asking him to watch the Tennessee and send up some gunboats the moment the stage of water admitted; and had also requested General Allen, quartermaster at St. Louis, to dispatch to Eastport a steam ferry-boat.
After wearisome delays, due mainly to the utter inefficiency of the quartermaster and contractor, the start for the Indian towns was made on October the 4th. The Army Begins its March. The army trudged slowly through the deep woods and across the wet prairies, cutting out its own road, and making but five or six miles a day. Daniel B. Bradley of Southport, Conn., and Mr.
I had brought out from New York twenty thousand dollars commissary funds, and eight thousand dollars quartermaster funds, and as the ship contained about six months' supply of provisions, also a saw-mill, grist-mill, and almost every thing needed, we were soon established comfortably.
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