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Updated: June 20, 2025
She comes! she comes! and now she anchors near the shore. What a day of joy and thankfulness! But the delight of the poor mariners may be more easily conceived than described. Their bargain with the master of the ship a Russian vessel was soon made: they were to work for him on the voyage, and they agreed to pay eighty rubles on landing.
The foresail was furled in such manner that it could be cast loose and the head of it hoisted at a minute's notice. I greatly feared that some light vessel might be forced from her moorings, and drift athwart our bows, and thus bear the sloop away from her anchors.
After the monotony of a sea voyage, landing at Port Said is amusing. The steamer anchors in mid-stream, and is quickly surrounded by gaily painted shore boats, whose swarthy occupants half native, half Levantine clamber on board, and clamour and wrangle for the possession of your baggage.
The Essex gunboat, Captain Porter, was lying there, swinging at her anchors in the stream. A sailor paced the deck in a short blue jacket, who had a spy-glass in his hand, and kept a sharp lookout down the river, for there were two Rebel gunboats below in the bend. The regiment landed on the Kentucky side, where a narrow creek comes down from the hills through a wild ravine.
"This is the worst of trying to tell.... Here you all are, each moored with two good addresses, like a hulk with two anchors, a butcher round one corner, a policeman round another, excellent appetites, and temperature normal you hear normal from year's end to year's end. And you say, Absurd! Absurd be exploded! Absurd!
We cannot expect much pressure from the south, as McMurdo Sound should soon be frozen over and the ice holding. North- east winds would drive the pack in from the Ross Sea. I hope for the best. Plans for future development are ready, but probably will be checkmated again.... I took the anchors aboard.
Cloete takes care of him for a couple of days. . . Our arrangement still stands, says he. Here's the ship bound for Port Elizabeth; not a safe anchorage at all. Should she by chance part from her anchors in a north-east gale and get lost on the beach, as many of them do, why, it's five hundred in your pocket and a quick return home. You are up to the job, ain't you? "Our Mr.
Strewn about were small fish, the disjecta membra of many kinds of animal, ships' masts and anchors, human bones, and merchandise; in the centre was land with hillocks upon it, the alluvial deposit, I supposed, from what the whale swallowed. This was wooded with trees of all kinds, and vegetables were growing with all the appearance of cultivation. The coast might have measured thirty miles round.
Things happen so quickly, and there are always so few to do the work and hard work, too, as the small-boat sailor knows. I have toiled all night, both watches on deck, in a typhoon off the coast of Japan, and been less exhausted than by two hours' work at reefing down a thirty-foot sloop and heaving up two anchors on a lee shore in a screaming southeaster. Hard work and excitement?
However, I found Hawk, and we decided not to sleep down below with the others, all crowded together and stinking in the dirty interior of the ship. We took our hammocks up on deck and slung them forward from the handrail near one of the great anchors. I had a purpose in doing this. I had no intention of going to sleep.
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