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The sea broke over us as we lay in the trough, deluging us with water from the forecastle, aft, to the binnacles; and very often as the ship descended with a plunge, it was with such force that I really thought she would divide in half with the violence of the shock.
Here, where the hoot of the Haverstraw brick-barge-tug answers the howl of the locomotive on either shore, you shall find, with a complete installation of electric light, nickel-plated binnacles, and a calliope attachment to her steam-whistle, the twelve-hundred-ton ocean-going steam-yacht Columbia, lying at her private pier, to take to his office, at an average speed of seventeen knots an hour, and the barges can look out for themselves, Wilton Sargent, American.
Masts, spars, fragments of shell-encrusted boats, binnacles, round-houses and galleys, and part of the after-deck of a coasting schooner, had ceased their wanderings and found rest in this vast cemetery of the sea. The legend on a wheel-house, the lettering on a stern or bow, served for mortuary inscription.
The deck, you observe, is of narrow deal planks as white as snow; the guns are of polished brass; the bitts and binnacles of mahogany; she is painted with taste; and all the mouldings are gilded. There is nothing wanting; and yet how clear and unencumbered are her decks! Let us go below.
A dreadful sight presented itself the whole deck was black, and corpses lay strewed; their clothes on them still burning, and among the bodies lay fragments of what once were men. The capstern was unshipped and turned over on its side the binnacles were in remnants, and many of the ropes ignited. There was not one person left on deck to oppose them.
California's full of 'em, and here's an Eastern sample while we're talking." A shiny black steam-yacht, with mahogany deck-house, nickel-plated binnacles, and pink-and-white-striped awnings puffed up the harbour, flying the burgee of some New York club.
For the purposes of navigation, therefore, the compasses were from this time no longer consulted; and in a few days afterward, the binnacles were removed as useless lumber from the deck to the carpenter's storeroom, where they remained during the rest of the season.
A dreadful sight presented itself the whole deck was black, and corpses lay strewed; their clothes on them still burning, and among the bodies lay fragments of what once were men. The capstern was unshipped and turned over on its side the binnacles were in remnants, and many of the ropes ignited. There was not one person left on deck to oppose them.
"She means a corduroy road, I guess," said Gladys, and they all shouted with laughter. "Ho-ho-ho!" chuckled Slim, "that's pretty good. Velvetine road! Would there be any binnacles on it, do you suppose?" he added teasingly. "That's right, everybody insult a poor old woman what ain't never had a chance to get an eddication!" sobbed Katherine, shedding mock tears into her handkerchief.
A few hours more would have enabled her to proceed to sea with security, but they were denied; the consequences were appalling, and might have been fatal. "In the general confusion, some iron too near the binnacles had attracted the needle of the compasses; the ship was steered out of her course.
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