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Updated: May 23, 2025
He remained motionless, listening to the rattle of blocks and the creaking of trusses as the head-yards were hauled round. Sail was made on the ship and the windlass manned again while he stood still, lost in thought. He only roused himself when a barefooted seacannie glided past him silently on his way to the wheel. "Put the helm aport!
'Rotten shot! snapped Grimball, as the shell, sailing well over the mast top, plunged into the sea two hundred yards or more beyond. 'Hard aport! he shouted, and the 'Maid' came spinning round almost as smartly as a sailing dinghy. Next minute she and her consort were legging it southwards at the very top of their speed.
"Hard aport!" repeated Lawry desperately. Once more the supposed cheer was answered by the whistle and the waving of the ladies' handkerchiefs, and still the fairy craft dashed on toward the rocks. "By gracious! she's on them, as sure as the world!" exclaimed Lawry to himself, hardly able to breathe.
Take care now, or ye'll be in mettlefeesics soon. I say, ould black-face," Barney was not on ceremony with the old trader, "is there no land in thim parts at all?" "No, not dis night," "Och, then, we'll have to git up a tree and try to cook somethin' there; for I'm not goin' to work on flour and wather. Hallo! hould on! There's an island, or the portrait o' wan! Port your helm, Naygur! hard aport!
I could not keep back the tears. Presently: "Halt!" commanded the Brigadier. "Front face!" "Right dress!" "Stand at ease!" "One two three. In unison RECITE!" It was fine. In one noble volume of sound of all the fifty-seven Haves in the Italian language burst forth in an exalting and splendid confusion. Then came commands: "About face! Eyes front! Helm alee hard aport!
She lay head to the reef, where the huge blue wall of the rollers was for ever ranging up and crumbling down; and to gain her starboard side, we must pass below the stern. The rudder was hard aport, and we could read the legend On the other side, about the break of the poop, some half a fathom of rope-ladder trailed over the rail, and by this we made our entrance.
There seemed to be a thousand pans there, throwing my match back at me from every wall of the box-like compartment. Even McCord's eyes, in the doorway, were large and round and shining. He probably thought me crazy. Perhaps I was, a little. I ran the match along close to the ceiling and came upon a rusty hook a little aport of the center. "There," I said.
We had concerts in the hall every night, and as it was a couple of miles from our ward, we cripples who brought our own chairs with us would wait in the corridor for one of the blind to propel us along while we would do the guiding ourselves, giving directions to our steeds in nautical terms, such as: "Starboard a little!" "Steady, steady, you idiot!" "Hard aport!" "Quick!"
She lay head to the reef, where the huge blue wall of the rollers was for ever ranging up and crumbling down; and to gain her starboard side, we must pass below the stern. The rudder was hard aport, and we could read the legend: FLYING SCUD On the other side, about the break of the poop, some half a fathom of rope ladder trailed over the rail, and by this we made our entrance.
The latter alternative being preferred by the United States Captain, the San Jacinto put her helm aport, and came slowly round, returning to the prescribed distance from the shore, where she proceeded to steam slowly backwards and forwards, in the hope of intercepting her little enemy, should the latter venture to leave her anchorage.
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