eight-pared

Updated: May 4, 2025

After casting anchor, Captain Blomsberry and Lieutenant Bronsfield entered an eight-pared cutter, which soon brought them to land. They jumped on to the quay. "The telegraph?" they asked, without answering one of the thousand questions addressed to them. The officer of the port conducted them to the telegraph office through a concourse of spectators.

Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon