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The course was N. N. East; but, as for the sail, I determined to stand on under our top-sails and fore-course, spanker and jib, until I could get a look by daylight.
By mid-afternoon the tent consisting of the brigantine's fore-course, which I had salved was satisfactorily rigged up, a trench dug round it to carry off water in the event of rain, and a sufficiency of rude but efficient furniture stored within it; and, somewhat to my surprise, the pair who were to occupy it expressed themselves as quite satisfied.
Loose the fore-course before you quit the yard there, then up aloft and loosen everything you can find." All was done as ordered, and done rapidly, as is ever the case on board a well-ordered vessel when there is occasion for exertion.
We made a signal, therefore, and soon had the strangers lying-to, in the smooth water we made for them, with our own main-yard aback. It is scarcely necessary to say, that we had gradually diminished our own canvass, as it became necessary, until the ship was under double-reefed top-sails, the fore-course, jib and spanker.
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