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Updated: June 18, 2025
Eying Don Benito's small, yellow hands, he easily inferred that the young captain had not got into command at the hawse-hole, but the cabin-window; and if so, why wonder at incompetence, in youth, sickness, and gentility united?
Here the chain was easily passed through a hawse-hole, and a knot tied, with a marlinspike passed through its centre. To pass the fire on the return was now a serious matter; but it was done without injury, Raoul driving his companions before him.
As her chain was rattling through the hawse-hole, Percival, with his sister and Mauburn, came on deck. "Why, there's the Chicago Higbee's yacht." "That's the boat," said Mauburn, "that's been piling the white water up in front of her all afternoon trying to overhaul us." "There's Millie Higbee and old Silas, now." "And, as I live," exclaimed Psyche, "there's the Baron de Palliac between them!"
O, sir, he did not hear the word precisely. Listten, my chile, to yo' teacher! remember that his honor and the school's honor is in yo' spelling!" He drew back a step, poised himself, and gave the word. It came like an anchor-chain crashing through a hawse-hole. "Or-r-r-r-rus-seh!" And the child, winking at vacancy in the intensity of his attention, spelled: "Haich-o-r-eth-e, 'Orthe."
I could scarce restrain myself from giving a cheer; but I managed to keep silence, fearing that my voice might be heard. It was not yet time. If heard, I should be dragged forth, and sent packing without ceremony. I therefore lay as still as a mouse, and listened to the great chain harshly rasping through the iron ring of the hawse-hole.
Stand by the jib-halyards!" "Anchor a-weigh, sir!" said Cleats, who was doing duty on the forecastle. "Hoist the jib!" "Up with the jib!" repeated Peaks. As the anchor came up to the hawse-hole, the jib filled, and the vessel began to move. "Cat and fish the anchor!" called the vice-principal; and his order was passed forward. "Cat and fish the anchor!" exclaimed Perth.
They cut her hawser free, and with the big anchor-rope kinking through the hawse-hole, away went the Aurora, picking up, as she went, the chain-anchor with its eight or ten fathoms of chain still out and tucking it under her bilge; and there that anchor stayed, jammed hard against her bottom planking, while she rushed across the harbor.
During the course of the gale nearly the whole length of the hempen cable, of 120 fathoms, was veered out, besides the chain-moorings, and, for its preservation, the cable was carefully "served", or wattled, with pieces of canvas round the windlass, and with leather well greased in the hawse-hole, where the chafing was most violent.
At all events, he would not be worse off than he was; and supposing that, after all, his birth was not such as he could boast of, he might still win a name for himself, as many another officer had done, who had, as the saying is, "gone in through the hawse-hole," just as the renowned Captain Cook and several of our bravest captains and admirals had done.
There was evidently no one on board; and although one or two of the sails were loose, they hung in shreds from the yards. Scarcely had this been noted when the Dolphin struck against a large mass of ice, and quivered under the violence of the shock. "Let go!" shouted the captain. Down went the heaviest anchor they had, and for two minutes the chain flew out at the hawse-hole. "Hold on!"
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