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One of the midshipmen had, for the past hour, been in the foretop with a glass; and the captain himself now went up, and took his place beside him.
I remember, in the Lyra, on my way home from China, in 1817, that the captain of the foretop, a fine active lad from North Shields, got into some scrape, not quite bad enough to bring him within the reach of the terrible gangway, but close to it, and I was rather perplexed how to chastise the offender.
In fact, when it is necessary to set them, the sailors must climb by the rigging it may be in the foretop, it may be on the spars of the top-gallant mast, it may be to the top of the said mast and that, as well in letting them fly as in drawing them in to diminish their surface in reefing them.
"Odds bobs, and now I come to think of it, those there vessels may be sailing to attack Gheria, seeing as how, as these niggers told us, they've bust up Suwarndrug." "Guess I'll get to the foretop myself and take a look, sir," said Mr. Toley. He mounted, carrying the only perspective glass the vessel possessed. The captain watched him anxiously as he took a long look.
"'He must be shot, said the captain, and he told the second mate to fetch his rifle. "The second mate, that he might make sure of his aim, went aloft into the foretop. The beast was then sitting on the topgallant yard. He had been in command of the fabric of the fore all day.
The ropes by which the sails were secured to the yards were removed at this order, and the topmen held the sails in their places. "All ready on the forecastle, sir," reported Foster, who was captain of that part of the ship. "All ready in the foretop." "All ready in the maintop." "All ready in the mizzentop," reported the several captains of the tops, in their proper order.
I dreamt old Bill Foster fell out o' the foretop and broke 'is leg." "Well, wot is there to laugh at in that?" ses old Bill, very sharp. "It was funny in my dream," ses the cook. "You looked so comic with your leg doubled up under you, you can't think. It would ha' made a cat laugh."
He watched the motions of the Blanche, for there was nothing else to be seen but the waste of angry waters. Far ahead the light of the breaking day began to penetrate the gloomy black clouds. It was a pleasure to come out of the deep darkness, and he observed with interest the increase of the light. While he was watching the east, the lookout man in the foretop hailed the deck.
He had slung his hammock in the Constellation's fo'castle, and became captain of the foretop. I had made up my mind to see Carmen, if he still lived; and finding at Chagres a schooner bound for La Guayra I took passages in her for myself and Ramon, all the more willingly as the captain proposed to put in at Curaçoa.
Playing whist by the cabin lamps when it is storming outside is pleasant; walking the quarterdeck in the moonlight is pleasant; smoking in the breezy foretop is pleasant when one is not afraid to go up there; but these are all feeble and commonplace compared with the joy of seeing people suffering the miseries of seasickness. I picked up a good deal of information during the afternoon.
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