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Updated: June 28, 2025
The skipper is still at the wheel, to which he and the two men whose trick it is are clinging. 'Hard-a-lee! and round she goes this time, till she snuggles into a good lie-to, which keeps her alternately coming up and falling off a little, by the counteraction of the sails and helm.
"Hard-a-lee" it was one after the other, and for every "Hard-a-lee" twenty of us went down into the roaring sea fore and aft and hauled in and slackened away sheets, while aloft, the fellows lashed to the foremast head shifted top and staysail tacks.
"How's that fellow that was hit?" asked Tom, pointing to the rebel who lay in the middle of the standing room. "I guess it's all right with him," replied Hapgood, bending over the silent form. "No; he isn't dead." "I have it!" shouted Tom, suddenly crowding the helm hard-a-lee. "What, Tom?" "I see where we are. We are running up the river. I see the land on the weather bow."
The look out in the ship did not see the schooner until he was close on her; then he yelled `hard-a-lee! so I was told, for I didn't hear it, bein', as I said, sound asleep. But I heard and felt what followed plain enough. There came a crash like thunder.
When all was ready, the word "hard-a-lee" was passed forward to me from man to man; and the Ghost heeled about on the port tack with practically no noise at all. And what little there was, the slapping of a few reef-points and the creaking of a sheave in a block or two, was ghostly under the hollow echoing pall in which we were swathed.
"Hard-a-lee!" screamed the skipper, and at the same instant executed the order himself by jamming the tiller hard down to leeward. "Haul the fore sheet to windward! Clear away the long-boat! Be handy, lads! We'll save the poor fellow yet." And then the captain shouted to the unfortunate man, as he was seen not far off in the wake, "Be of good cheer! Keep your head up! No danger!
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