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Updated: May 13, 2025
This much is certain, that when I lay within a boat-hook's length of her sprit-sail-yard-arm, she was a half-rig, with a woman figure-head, and as pretty a show of gear aloft, as eye ever looked upon; while every thing below was as snug as a tobacco-box with the lid down: and here you all say that she is a high-decked schooner, with nothing ship-shape about her!
Ludlow, whose eye did not often turn from the brigantine, nodded assent; and the master, having satisfied himself, by actual inspection, that every sail in the Coquette did its duty, continued "The night is coming on thick, and we shall have occasion for all our eyes to keep the rogue in view, when he begins to change his bearings but, as I was saying, if the commander of yonder half-rig is too vain of her good looks, he may yet wreck her, in his pride!
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