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Updated: July 15, 2025
Oh, and there were pigs and chickens on deck, and sacks of yams, while every conceivable place was festooned with strings of drinking cocoanuts and bunches of bananas. On both sides, between the fore and main shrouds, guys had been stretched, just low enough for the fore-boom to swing clear; and from each of these guys at least fifty bunches of bananas were suspended.
Winged out and we didn't see her till the end of her bowsprit caught the end of our main-boom hauled in we were to two blocks and over we went on the other tack yes, sir, over on the other tack. Thinks I, ''Tis a new way to jibe a vessel over. And the end of her fore-boom all but swept me from beside the wheel and over the rail as she went by she was that close.
The cook also said that he thought the skipper lost his life because of the half-stunning blow that he must have received from the fore-boom while he was on the rail trying to free the dory. The vessel was sinking all the time and it being dark or near it in the squall I suppose Captain Ripley could not watch everything. No doubt, it was the fore-boom hit him and knocked him overboard.
The maids, however, were very frightened, as some of the sea had got down into the nursery, and the skylights had to be screwed down. Our studding-sail boom, too, broke with a loud crack when the ship broached-to, and the jaws of the fore-boom gave way.
The maids, however, were very frightened, as some of the sea had got down into the nursery, and the skylights had to be screwed down. Our studding sail boom, too, broke with a loud crack when the ship broached to, and the jaws of the fore-boom gave way.
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