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The evening breeze had sprung up, and though it was well warded off by the hill with the two peaks upon the east, the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and the idle sails to rattle to and fro. I began to see a danger to the ship. The jibs I speedily doused and brought tumbling to the deck, but the main-sail was a harder matter.
"Let go the jib and flying-jib halyards! Haul down!" And the jibs were taken in. "Slack off the lee braces! Haul on the weather braces!" The main-topsail and top-gallant were thus thrown aback, and the Young America was hove to, in order to enable her people to perform their humane mission. "Stand by to lower the barge and gig!" continued Haven. "Mr.
The bows lurched out of it viciously, hurling another icy flood back on him, and he could see a dim white chaos about and beneath them. Over it rose the black wedge of the jibs. He did not want to get out along the bowsprit to stop one of them down. Indeed his whole physical nature shrank from it, but there are many things flesh and blood shrink from which must be faced at sea.
We did not start out to race, but gradually, as we found ourselves jogging along side by side, jibs were drawn away and sheets began to be trimmed. The first thing we knew we found ourselves swaying up sails, and then before we really woke up to it we were both off and away before a little breeze. Hollis had all the best of it.
About eleven o'clock, the captains who were to be our Minos and our Rhadamanthus made their appearance, and we all agreed that we did not much like the "cut of their jibs." At twelve o'clock the first name was called.
"Why, sir, the two young 'uns have never been in together yet Smolensko's but a rum customer, when aside of a steady horse; and as for Pony-towsky, he jibs just as bad as ever." "Never mind put them in and bring them round." "Then I'd better tie up the dog, sir, for they can't neither of them abide him." "Never mind they must be accustomed to him so let the dog follow as usual.
Boom-foresail's worse, and the jibs are dropping off her, while the water just pours in through her topsides when she puts another lee plank down." Wyllard made a little expressive gesture, and leaned upon the rail. He realised then something of the nature of the task he had undertaken.
As soon as the reef points were untied came the order: "Slack away the reef tackle, and see that the caring will run easy. "Now up with the throat halliard. That will do. "Now the gaff a little more. Belay there. "Now get that topsail up from the sail locker. We won't shift jibs just yet, until we see whether the breeze is going to freshen."
The HISPANIOLA was under her main-sail and two jibs, and the beautiful white canvas shone in the sun like snow or silver. When I first sighted her, all her sails were drawing; she was lying a course about north-west, and I presumed the men on board were going round the island on their way back to the anchorage.
Their movements perceptibly quickened under his coaching, and as the boat swung inboard I was sent forward to let go the jibs. Wolf Larsen, at the wheel, directed the Ghost after the Macedonia's second weather boat. Under way, and with nothing for the time being to do, I turned my attention to the situation of the boats.
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