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Indeed, I had abundant confirmation of these fears within the next half- hour, for we soon afterwards dashed past an extensive reef over which the sea boiled and seethed with terrific violence at so short a distance that, but for our slight alteration of course when the foresail was set, we must have plunged headlong upon it.
The coming breaker floated her, and she swung to her haul-off warp. Then they set her close-reefed storm foresail and took her mizzen off.
The setting is that of a merchantman carrying passengers whose discomforts rather amuse the 'schippemenne. Howe hissa! is still used aboard deepwater-men as Ho hissa! instead of Ho hoist away! What ho, mate! is also known afloat, though dying out. Y-howe! taylia! is Yo ho! tally! or Tally and belay! which means hauling aft and making fast the sheet of a mainsail or foresail.
It was not only to rake the fresh schooner he had put his ship before the wind, but also by a double, daring, master-stroke to hurl his monster ship bodily on the other. Without a foresail she could never get out of his way. Her crew had stopped the leak, and cut away and unshipped the broken foremast, and were stepping a new one, when they saw the huge ship bearing down in full sail.
"Sure enough, and up goes her foresail, they work with a will and are in a hurry." "She don't like the looks of something on the coast," said the other.
The flag-ship kept away four points forty-five degrees; but hardly had she started, under the very moderate canvas of topsails and foresail, to cover the much greater distance to be travelled, in order to support the van by engaging the enemy's rear, when Byng observed that the two ships on his left towards the van were not keeping pace with him.
The Henriette came into Poole this morning, but we never trouble about her. She is a fair trader, and is well known at every port between Portsmouth and Plymouth as such. She always comes in at daylight, and lays her foresail aback till we board her, and send a couple of men with her into Poole or Wareham.
Some lie-to best under a foresail, and this, I believe, is the sail most usually employed. Large square-rigged vessels have sails for the express purpose, called storm-staysails. But the jib is occasionally employed by itself, sometimes the jib and foresail, or a double-reefed foresail, and not unfrequently the after-sails, are made use of.
Next morning the gale still continued, and when the day broke, there was the frigate standing across our bows, rolling and pitching, as she tore her way through the boiling sea, under a close reefed main topsail and reefed foresail, with topgallant yards and royal masts, and every thing that could be struck with safety in war time, down on deck.
"In this frighted condition they drove away at a prodigious rate, having sometimes the bonnet of their foresail a little out, but the yard lowered almost to the deck sometimes the ship almost under water, and sometimes above, keeping still in the offing, for fear of the land, till they might see daylight.
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