isbearing

Updated: June 23, 2025

Jenkins now hailed from the foreyard "The strange sail isbearing up, sir." As he spoke, a flash was seen, followed, after what seemed a long interval, by the deadened report of the gun, as if it had been an echo, and the sharp, half ringing half hissing sound of the shot. It fell short, but close to us, and was evidently thrown from a heavy cannon, from the length of the range.

Michael Scott - Tom Cringle's Log