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Captain Sol soon found that the cargo hadn't been well stowed and it bothered him a good deal. For, in his log-book, he wrote things like these: Aug. 27, Heavy sea from the eastward. Ship labors very badly. Sept. 1, Squally with rough, heavy sea. Ship labors very much. Sept. 10, Ship rolls and labors hard through the night. Sept. 22, Heavy gales & Squally with tremendous sea. Ship'd much water.
With these data he is enabled to lay down upon his chart the exact position of his ship at that hour, and from this spot the ship's reckoning commences. The entering of all these particulars in the log-book is termed keeping the dead reckoning, and the working out of the calculations just referred to is called working up the days work.
"Keep dead-reckonin', 'Lisha," said Martin; "dat's good 'nough for us; an', say, can't you take sights by a watch jess for a bluff, to show in de log-book?" "Might; 't wouldn't be reliable. Good enough, though, for log-book testimony. That's what I'll do." Inch by inch they gathered in their cable and coiled it down, unmoved by the protesting toots of the steamer's whistle.
The days grew shorter and shorter, and the cold became keen. Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans saw little of Robur. Seated in his cabin, the engineer was busy laying out his course and marking it on his maps, taking his observations whenever he could, recording the readings of his barometers, thermometers, and chronometers, and making full entries in his log-book.
If Captain Ludlow ever gave any further account of the transaction than what was stated in the log-book of his ship, the bienséance, observed by the Lords of the Admiralty, prevented it from becoming public.
And what Harris doesn't think he knows about the heel of the law being kept on Blacks and every other darned unit in the creation scheme' muttered Ninnis in parenthesis 'ain't entered in the Almighty's Log-book. Ninnis expectorated over the veranda railings a habit of his that jarred on Lady Bridget. 'Well, what about Harris?
The whole scene made us unequivocally aware that we were seated on the shores of an island in the far-famed South Sea. This day is reckoned in the log-book as Tuesday the 17th, instead of Monday the 16th, owing to our, so far, successful chase of the sun.
The lad," he added, striking his hand frankly on Edward's shoulder, "the lad whose conscience shrunk from receiving public testimonials of his worth as a sailor, while his private character was stained, while there was that upon it which, if known, he believed would effectually prevent his promotion; who, at the risk of disappointment to his dearest wishes, of disgrace, want of honour, possessed sufficient courage to confess to his captain that his log-book, the first years of his seamanship, told a false tale the lad, I say, who can so nobly command himself, is well worthy to govern others.
The captain was agitated and tremulously stuttered: "Why it's the baker! How piteously he pleads to be rescued, but we can do nothing for him." The day, hour and minute of the appearance were entered in the log-book, and when the vessel arrived home, the tale was told and paraphrased in a way that attracted national attention.
The government of Guam is better under American rule than at any time in the previous history of the island. When the late Admiral Schroeder was governor of Guam he consulted his log-book and discovered that he was altogether too far away from Washington to be tied to rules and regulations, or to be tangled up in official red tape. So he cut the tape and used good common sense instead.
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