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Updated: June 6, 2025
I should have told him the truth long before this. I couldn't bear to keep any thing on my conscience. If this misfortune had happened last cruise, I should have been just in your position; for I had a tailor's bill to pay as long as a frigate's pennant, and not enough in my pocket to buy a mouse's breakfast. Now, let's go in again, and be as merry as possible, and cheer them up a little."
"Man-of-war very fine place; but all slaves there captain steal men every ship he come to. But sailor no tink so; ebery night we all sing Britong nebber, nebber, nebber, will be slave. Make me laugh, sar," continued the man, showing his teeth with a broad grin. "What was the frigate's name?" "How long were you on board of her?"
Denham sprang from the side of the vessel; and scarcely had he reached the boat, and taken his seat in the stern-sheets, when the bow of the prize lifted high up above the sea, and then down she sank, lower and lower, till the water washed over her deck, and finally closed again above her masthead. The frigate's boat had barely time to pull away clear of the vortex.
Hearing the splash and the excited cries of "Man overboard!" which rang out fore-and-aft, he rushed to the gangway to see if he could be of any assistance in the emergency. One can imagine his feelings on beholding his arch-enemy, the bully of the midshipmen's berth, struggling desperately for life under the frigate's counter.
The Captain's expectations relative to the frigate's behaviour on the new point of sailing were quickly verified; so quickly, indeed, that within a quarter of an hour we found ourselves within easy range of the chase a fact which was brought home to us by a shot from her passing within a foot of our hammock rail and whizzing between our fore and mainmast.
Later on, at the end of the cruise, we re-entered Brest in a south-westerly squall, under circumstances which made a very useful impression on me. We had bad weather for some days, no reliable observations had been taken, and we were very doubtful as to the frigate's position.
With wonderful rapidity the guns were run in, loaded, and again sent forth their death-dealing shower of iron, this time tearing through the frigate's upper bulwarks, sweeping across quarterdeck and wounding her masts.
They were helped up the frigate's side, and the old man advanced, with his daughter leaning on his arm, and followed by the priest, who, though concealed by those in front, was, by peering out on one side, able to take a steady survey of the officers on the quarter-deck. The captain received the marquis and his daughter with great politeness.
But, as Barnstable observed, you must know your road well to travel among these shoals on such a night as this. Know you what water we draw?" "'Tis a frigate's draught, and I shall endeavor to keep you in four fathoms; less than that would be dangerous."
It was impossible to stay one's self; there was nothing but the bare deck to cling to, which was slippery with the contents of the kids, and heaving under us as if there were a volcano in the frigate's hold. While we were yet sliding in uproarious crowds all seated the windows of the deck opened, and floods of brine descended, simultaneously with a violent lee-roll.
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