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I recollect," observed Captain M , for it was he. "Are you the boy that I sent home in the chasse-maree, to be fitted out for the quarter-deck?" "Yes, sir." "And how long have you been on this praiseworthy service?" "Ever since, sir," replied our hero, who had little idea of its impropriety.
She used to say afterwards that this was Providence, too. You see, the Channel was full of our ships and neutrals in those days, which made fat work for the French privateers; but the Frenchies' own vessels kept close over on their coast; and even so, the best our boys could expect, nine times out of ten when they'd crossed over, was to run against a chasse-marée dodging between Cherbourg and St.
At times we could hear shouts, twice pistol-shots, and then we were startled by the dull, heavy report of a small cannon. "That's after the chasse-maree," whispered my companion; "but she sails like a witch. She's safe unless they knock a spar away."
"I wish to see these men, bring them to me." An officer immediately went to fetch them. "How many are there of them?" continued Monk; "and what is their vessel?" "There are ten or twelve of them, general, and they were aboard of a kind of chasse-maree, as it is called Dutch-built, apparently." "And you say they were carrying fish to Lambert's camp?"
Who knows whether the hatchet or the iron bar of this miserable coaster has not succeeded in doing that which the best blades of Europe, balls, and bullets have not been able to do in forty years?" That same day they set out for Sainte-Marguerite's, on board a chasse-maree come from Toulon under orders. The impression they experienced on landing was a singularly pleasing one.
Daylight was streaming through the mouth of the cavern; beyond could be seen the blue sea shining brightly in the rays of the sun, with a chasse-maree, or some other small vessel, gliding swiftly across it, impelled by a smart breeze off shore. Jack had taken it into his head that the people on board might see them. "I don't think there's much chance of that," said Bill.
"I wish to see these men; bring them to me." An officer immediately went to fetch them. "How many are there of them?" continued Monk; "and what is their vessel?" "There are ten or twelve of them, general, and they were aboard of a kind of chasse-maree, as it is called Dutch-built, apparently." "And you say they were carrying fish to Lambert's camp?"
The chasse-maree, never intended to encounter the huge waves of the Bay of Biscay, but to crawl along the coast and seek protection from them on the first indication of their fury, labouring with a heavy cargo, not only stowed below, but on the decks, was not sufficiently buoyant to rise on the summits of the waves, which made a clean breach over her, and the men became exhausted with the wet and the inclemency of the season.
Carts, and packhorses, and boats were all at it; and the kegs of brandy, and barrels of tobacco, and parcels of lace were coming ashore in fine style; I and another in a little boat kept making trips backwards and forwards between the shore and the chasse-maree, landing brandy-tubs nice little brandy-kegs, you know, with a VC Vieux Cognac branded on each.
We were close aside the long, low chasse-maree, in our bit of a skiff thing, when the alarm was given, and pushed off hard for the shore, which was about two hundred yards distant, while on all sides there were other boats setting us the example, or following in our wake; in front of us there was a heavy cart backed as far out into the sea as she would stand, with the horses turned restive and jibbing, for there was a heavy load behind them, and the more the driver lashed them, the more the brutes backed out in the shallow water, while every moment the wheels kept sinking farther into the sand.
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