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Updated: May 15, 2025
After this the storm staysail was rehoisted and we lay-to again in comparative safety. Mr Cleete, the carpenter, then went up into the maintop to see what had happened to cause the loud crack we had heard.
Then, the bars having been previously shipped by Mr Cleete, the carpenter and his crew, round tramped the "jollies," round went the capstan; and, with it, the messenger, the endless chain of which, revolving slowly, hauled the cable foot by foot inboard, the "lengths" dropping down the deck pipes out of the way as the slack was released from the messenger, and the nippers passed forwards again; and so on, over and over again!
This, he said, too, was much less than Mr Cleete, the carpenter, had made out, that worthy being one of the sort of men who always take a despondent view of everything. The spar, however, was sent down and replaced by a spare yard which we carried; and everything was all right aloft now.
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