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Now, this operation was bad for little Tadcaster. While the vessel was on the starboard tack, the side kept him snug; but, when they wore her, of course he had no leeboard to keep him in. The ship gave a lee-lurch, and shot him clean out of his bunk into the middle of the cabin.
Another reason which had still more weight with them was, that they had several of their men wounded, for whom they wished to get assistance. They at once, therefore, hauled their wind, but they had considerable difficulty in beating up toward the frigate, till they bethought them of lowering the junks' leeboard, when they found them sail wonderfully well to windward.
There was a fresh easterly breeze blowing when the double canoe or raft, as they agreed to term her cast off from alongside the Mohawk, and under its influence the craft, with one leeboard down, slid across the Javari at a speed that was as surprising as it was gratifying.
"As to what the captain meant," said I, "I do not know. I did as I was bid but what do you mean by calling me a whelp? I am no more a whelp than yourself!" "Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the leeboard of a Dutch schuyt.
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