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At 1/2 past 3 double reeft the Topsails, and hauld in for a Bay, wherein their appear'd to be good Anchorage, and into which I had thought of going with the Ship; but after standing in an hour, we found the distance too great to run before dark, and it blow'd too hard to attempt it in the night, or even to keep to Windward; for these reasons we gave it up, and bore away along shore.
When we approached Cape Horn, at the southern extremity of America, the weather became very cold and stormy, and the sailors began to tell stories about the furious gales and the dangers of that terrible Cape. "Cape Horn," said one, "is the most horrible headland I ever doubled. I've sailed round it twice already, and both times the ship was a'most blow'd out o' the water."
I wonder you've forgot it. Blessin's on it! I ain't likely to forget it. It's no use me tryin' fur to tell you all I heard in that there big hall, but when I come out blow'd if I didn't sign the pledge right away, an' I ain't took a drop o' grog since!"
"I say, old man, suthin' busted there," remarked the sailor, taking the pipe from his mouth and quietly ramming its contents down with the end of his blunt forefinger. The Malay looked grave. "The gasometer?" suggested the sailor. "No, that never busts." "A noo mountain come into action, p'raps, an blow'd its top off?" "Shouldn't wonder if that's it close at hand too. We's used to that here.
When we approached Cape Horn, at the southern extremity of America, the weather became very cold and stormy, and the sailors began to tell stories about the furious gales and the dangers of that terrible cape. "Cape Horn," said one, "is the most horrible headland I ever doubled. I've sailed round it twice already, and both times the ship was a'most blow'd out o' the water."
Nick inquired in a low, respectful voice, when Green had touched the place where his hat would have been if he had had it on, and the young woman, bowing with stiff politeness, had gone by. "What, don't you know?" the landlord of the Eureka Hotel replied with a question. "But I forgot, you ain't shown up around here much since you blow'd hack from the East.
Ah, slightly feverish no wonder I'll tell you all about it soon, but at present you must be content merely to know that you are safe in the hands of friends, that you are in the pirates' cave, and that the pirates and their vessel are now at the bottom of the sea." "That's hardly c'rect, Mr Shipton," murmured Slagg; "I would have said they was blow'd to hatoms."
We found Captain Fronte wi' his whole front blow'd out by a shell an' his shoulders kind o' tumbled in where his lungs belonged but thim eyes was lookin' straight at the hilltop. "An' Oi looked in 'em long for Oi loved him an' was glad. 'Cause Oi know'd Captain Fronte McKim was seein' hell an' enjoyin' it."
"And I've been round it no times at all," cried Peterkin, with an impudent wink in his eye, "an' that time I wos blow'd inside out!" Nevertheless, we passed the dreaded Cape without much rough weather, and, in the course of a few weeks afterwards, were sailing gently before a warm, tropical breeze over the Pacific Ocean.
Another gust, an' the rotten foretops'l's blow'd away, carryin' the fore-topmast by the board, which, of course, takes the jib-boom along with it, if it an't gone before.
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