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Updated: June 12, 2025
She's the ship they'd use; she's got steam winches and derricks 'nough to discharge the Ark, and stowage room to hold the cargo down to the last flea, but she's no good for more than eight knots; she steams like as if she'd a drogue behind her, because why? she's got beam engines she's that old, she's got beam engines in her.
The usual drogue is a trawl tub, quite perfect if filled with oil-soaked cotton waste to make a 'slick' which keeps the crests from breaking. The tub is hove into the water, over the stern, to which it is made fast by a bit of line long enough to give the proper scope.
But he repressed the inclination, and that gentleman went on to say "When the boat of the Red Eric came up to the whale was the drogue still attached to it?" "In coorse it was. Didn't ye hear me say that three or " "Be so good as to answer my questions simply, and do not make unnecessary remarks, sir. Was the drogue attached when the boat came up? Yes or no?" "Yes." "How do you know?"
Ben only waited for the return of his breath; and as soon as that was fairly restored to him, he once more set about the design that had caused him for the second time to climb upon the back of the cachalot. Taking the harpoon from the hands of the Coromantee, who still kept clutching it, as if there was danger in letting it go, the sailor proceeded to draw up the drogue.
Assisted by Snowball, he soon raised it out of the water, and hoisted it to the horizontal platform, on which they had placed themselves. He did not want the block of wood just then, only the line tied to it; and this having been detached, the drogue was left lying upon the carcass. Armed with the harpoon, the ci-devant whaleman now took a survey, not of the land, but of the sea around him.
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