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Updated: October 4, 2026
I were just goin' up to him to say how glad I were to see 'im about again, when he steps over to the binnacle, takes a peep into the compass-bowl, and then, afore a man could say `Jack Robinson, up he jumps on to the starn gratin', from there to the taffrail an' overboard!
"How's her head, quartermaster?" he demanded. The quartermaster glanced into the compass-bowl and answered, "No'-no'th-east, sir!" "Excellent!" exclaimed the skipper. "Why, at that rate, Mr Trimble, we shall pass outside Ushant, if we keep on as we are going now." "No doubt, sir," answered the master.