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Wherever smoke was seen coming out, we calked and pasted and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke tight. The captain and officers slept under the awning which was spread over the quarter-deck; and we stowed ourselves away under an old studding-sail, which we drew over one side of the forecastle.
It writhed away from the mast, and for a moment overhung the captain like some threatening portent. The next moment the wind whisked it away, and the captain's jaw returned to place. "As I was saying, when we first battened down, I was surprised. It was a tight deck, yet it leaked smoke like a sieve. And we've calked and calked ever since.
And above all the incidental noises of a ship's hold was one that I could not place a regular knocking, which kept time with the list of the boat. I located it at last, approximately, at one of the ballast ports, but there was nothing to be seen. The port had been carefully barred and calked over. The sound was not loud. Down there among the other noises, I seemed to feel as well as hear it.
Robert Louis Stevenson describes their life at Saranac: "We are high up in the Adirondack Mountains, living in a guide's cottage in the most primitive fashion. It is already very cold, but we have calked the doors and windows as one calks a boat, and have laid in a store of extraordinary garments made by the Canadian Indians.
They were prototypes of the rude crew but now departed, brown-faced, flannel-shirted, shod with calked boots, unshaven for days, typical men of the woods. But as she turned to go, the man forward and almost directly below her looked her full in the face. "Stell!" She leaned over the rail. "Charlie Benton for Heaven's sake." They stared at each other. "Well," he laughed at last.
By order of the commander the carpenter had overhauled the boat and made such repairs as were needed. Every open seam had been calked, and a heavy coat of paint had been put upon it. The sailmaker had attended to the jib and mainsail, and everything was in excellent condition for the trip to the shore. "Is this the same boat that you used when you were in the Bermudas, Mr.
Clancy stayed silent after that, not inclined to talk, I could see, until I told him about Maurice having shipped in the Flamingo and the hard crew that had gone in her. That stirred him. "Great Lord, gone in that shoe-box! Why, Joe, I'd as soon put to sea in a market basket calked with butter. And the man that's got her Dave Warner! He's crazy, Joe, if ever a man was crazy.
The round, unhewn logs showed their form everywhere; the crevices were calked with moss; and the walls were warm and tight. It was dark between the bunks, but beyond it was lighter, and Bartley could see at the farther end a vast cooking-stove, and three long tables with benches at their sides. A huge coffee-pot stood on the top of the stove, and various pots and kettles surrounded it.
And such, too, were the New World Vikings of the Pacific, who coasted the seas of two continents in cockle-shell ships, planks lashed with deer thongs, calked with moss, rapacious in their deep-sea plunderings as beasts of prey, fearless as the very spirit of the storm itself.
Eds. Having thus calked my Dog-Talk bark, in fact with this very tough bit of yarn, I now trustfully commit it to the mercies of the "Atlantic." A hot and dusty journey of some six hours brought us to Matanzas at high noon.
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