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The Rover, advancing carelessly to his side, made an allusion to the condition of his vessel, in order to divert the thoughts of his new lieutenant, who, by his hurried manner of pacing the deck, he saw, was beginning to indulge in uneasy meditations. "A charming sea-boat, Mr Wilder," he continued, "and one that never throws a drop of spray abaft her mainmast.
The space abaft the mizenmast contained a dining-room about ten feet broad, and extending the whole width of the ship, a saloon, and two cabins. The Emperor occupied the cabin on the left; in which his camp-bedstead had been put up; that on the right was appropriated to the Admiral. It was peremptorily enjoined that the saloon should be in common.
"I'll take care, uncle." "How's the wind, boy?" "Just a nice soft breeze, uncle. I can run round the point in about an hour wind right abaft." "And dead ahead coming back, eh?" "Yes; but I can tack, uncle make good long reaches." "To take you out into the race and among the skerries. Do you think I want to have you carried out to sea and brought back days hence to be buried, sir?"
I asked if a boat would be sent to us, or if we would have to get out our boat. "They carry a small folding boat," said the officer to whom I had been talking, "but we will have to send our boat." While we were getting our boat over the side, the submarine moved closer in, keeping her gun bearing on us all the time, most uncomfortably. The gun stood uncovered on the deck, just abaft the turret.
These persons, selected for their activity, strength, and coolness, should belong to the after-guard, main and mizen-top, and gunner's crew, men whose duties lie chiefly abaft or about the mainmast.
The lieutenant looked as though he had just been through one war; for he had slept none the night before, and had been on duty without intermission. He came to the hurricane-deck, and entered the pilot-house, where he dropped on the sofa abaft the wheel as though he were not in much better condition than the captain when he fell at his post.
Get down and help 'em mast-head the yard first, then take 'em forrard and coil the tow-line abaft the windlass. Get all the heavin'-lines ready, too." Poop-deck obeyed; and while the main-topsail-yard slowly arose to place under the efforts of the rest, Seldom himself ran up the answering pennant, and then the repetition of the steamer's last message: "All right."
"So they are, Swinburne, and better too, and I promise you a good stiff one to-morrow evening." "That will do, sir: now then I'll tell you all about it, and more about it too than most can, for I know how the action was brought about." I hove the log, marked the board, and then sat down abaft on the signal chest with Swinburne, who commenced his narrative as follows:
So thinks I, if these men are made fast, this is no place for me to be loose in, and crawled down to my old place in the waist, at the after end of the spare topsail-yard, which was made fast to the starboard-bulwarks, and which extended a little abaft of the main shrouds. If any gentleman can detect a nautical error in that last sentence, I shall feel obliged by his mentioning it.
They sailed from Goa, and Philip was standing abaft, and sadly contemplating the spire of the Cathedral, in which he had last parted with his wife, when his elbow was touched, and he turned round. "Fellow-passenger, again!" said a well-known voice it was that of the pilot Schriften.
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