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Updated: May 3, 2025
The shudder, the stumble, the swerve ere the star-stabbing bowsprit merges The orderly clouds of the Trades and the ridged roaring sapphire thereunder Unheralded cliff-lurking flaws and the head-sails' low-volleying thunder? His Sea in no wonder the same his Sea and the same in each wonder His Sea that his being fulfils? So and no otherwise so and no otherwise hill-men desire their hills!
He let go the wheel for a moment, and the little hooker at once came to the wind with her head-sails slatting and threshing as she spilled the wind out of them; then he began to pull the wheel over toward him, and with one terrific dive into a sea that came rushing at her, and which she split into two showers of diamond spray that leapt half as high as her foremast before it came driving aft in a shower that nearly drenched us to the skin, round she swept like a gun upon its pivot, and was full again upon the other tack almost before we could blink our eyelids.
The shot, however, told with little or no effect; a few holes were made through his head-sails, but no ropes of importance were cut away on board the Sea Hawk. The countenances of the pirates could now clearly be seen. They had exchanged the Austrian uniforms for their proper Greek dresses, which added considerably to the ferocity of their appearance.
They must then be hauled taut again, and belayed, or secured, in order to keep the sails in their place and to prevent them from shaking. When the ship's head comes up in the wind, the sail is for a moment or two edgewise to it, and then is the nice moment, as soon as the head-sails fairly fill, when the main-yard and the yards above it can be swung readily, and the tacks and sheets hauled in.
The helm was a-weather, and the lively brigantine had already turned more than half aside, when another gun drew every eye towards the point. The smoke was seen rising above the bend of the land, and presently the head-sails, followed by all the hull and spars of the Coquette, came into view.
The helm was put up, as the men, perceiving their imminent danger, climbed upon the guns to look if the vessel altered her course; but no down she came, and the head-sails of the Utrecht having been carried away, to their horror they perceived that she would not answer her helm, and pay off as they required. "Ship ahoy!" roared Philip through his trumpet but the gale drove the sound back.
"Let go that foreboom tackle and pass it across, and when she's willing let go the sheet and come in snug with the tackle. And if you make a mess of it, it will be the last you ever make. Understand?" "Mr. Van Weyden, stand by to pass the head-sails over. Then jump for the topsails and spread them quick as God'll let you the quicker you do it the easier you'll find it.
"Never, sir; and they have fished together now for seven years." Francisco gave the key to the man, who opened the locks of the hatches, and returned it. "There she is!" cried the man; the head-sails making their appearance as the vessel opened to their view from the projecting point distant about four miles.
They were now so near the frigate that the men in the tops and on the yards and swarming up the rigging could clearly be distinguished, while the boatswain's shrill whistle and the voices of the officers were distinctly heard. A groan escaped from the old captain's breast as the head-sails were let fall and sheeted home.
Two stately Indiamen lay out on the river below, almost flank by flank; and, as it happened, the farther one was at that moment weighing her anchor, indeed had it tripped on the cathead. A cloud of boats hung about her, trailing astern as her head-sails drew and she began to gather way on the falling tide.
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