east-sou'east

Updated: July 20, 2025

Fill away the head-yards, put your helm up, run up the flyin' jib, brail up the spanker check in the arter yards, and as she swung off he comes aft to the wheel where I was a-steerin', and says, 'Keep her east-sou'east, my man; giv' us a chew of terbacker. We soon had the muslin piled onto her ag'in, and sure enough, as old Wiggins had said, the sixteenth day out he walked the pierhead in Liverpool.

Various - Stories by American Authors, Volume 9