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Updated: May 12, 2025
To our landsmen's eyes and judgment, she had appeared to be about four miles from us, but we found ourselves very much out in our calculation it was more than double that distance. The rowers, however, pulled on bravely we neared the stranger, making her out to be a large American merchantman, and as he was approached, we observed a number of persons on deck reconnoitring us through glasses.
She selected a much battered volume, printed in an early year of the nineteenth century, its title being: LANDSMEN'S TALES: Seafaring Yarns of a Lubber. Louise became enthralled by the narratives of perilous adventure and odd happenings on shipboard which the author claimed to have himself observed.
The savage stationed at the fore-scuttle was as sick as a dog, and with streaming eyes, he was paying the landsmen's tribute to the sea. The hatch was very strong, and it was secured simply by its hasp and a bit of iron thrust through it. I had only to slip my hand down, remove the iron, throw open the hatch, when the ship's company streamed up on deck, Marble leading.
By this, you may know, we had all left our landsmen's fears far south of Belle Isle and were filled with the spirit of that wild, tempestuous world where the storm never sleeps and the cordage pipes on calmest day and the beam seas break in the long, low, growling wash that warns the coming hurricane.
Why, the sights that come before us would make you landsmen's hairs stand up on end, and never come down again." "In the ocean, do you mean, that you see those sights, uncle?" "To be sure. I was once in the southern ocean, in a small frigate, looking out for a seventy-four we were to join company with, when a man at the mast-head sung out that he saw her on the larboard bow.
Those only who knew the river well could venture down it in the dark. Objects scarcely visible to landsmen's eyes were seen by her pilot, and thus we were able to avoid any risk of striking.
We won't go aloft till you have got your togs; a fellow going aloft in landsmen's clothes always looks rather a duffer. Now, let us see what you know about things."
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