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Then, suddenly restraining himself, "What have we lost, Mr. Wharton?" "Our maintopsail yard and our gaff, sir." "Where's the flag?" "Gone overboard, sir." "They'll think we've struck! Lash a boat's ensign on the starboard arm of the mizzen cross-jack-yard." "Yes, sir." A round-shot dashed the binnacle to pieces between them. A second knocked two marines into a bloody palpitating mash.
"There is nothing visible within," said the captain after a long and anxious search, with a glass. "The shadow of the Jersey mountains prevents the sight in that direction, while the spars of a frigate might be confounded with the trees of Staten Island, here, in the northern board. Cross-jack-yard, there!" The shrill voice of a midshipman answered to the hail.
On the 15th day of December, we sailed from Edgarton, on a whaling voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, but in working out, having carried away the cross-jack-yard, we returned to port, and after having refitted and sent aloft another, we sailed again on the 19th, and on the same day anchored in Holmes' Hole.
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