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Updated: June 22, 2025
In a second the boatswain was away piping on the forecastle, and ropes cast off and sails flapping again. "Helms a-lee!" was the next order from the captain, followed by a second which grew familiar enough to me in time. "Raise tacks and sheets!" and the foretack and main-sheet were cast off with the weather main-brace hauled taut.
"Raise tacks and sheets!" cried Captain Gillespie, when the foretack and main-sheets were cast off just as his next command came "Main-sail haul!" Then the weather main-brace was hauled taut and the heavy yard swung round, the Silver Queen coming up to the wind with a sort of shiver, as if she did not like turning back and retracing her course. However, so "Old Jock" willed it, and she must!
"Well, maties," said one of them, at last "I spose we shan't see each other again: come, let's splice the main-brace all round, and drink to the last voyage!"
"Mr, What's-his-name, have the goodness to what-do-ye-call-'em, the, the thingumbob." "Ay, ay, my lord," said I. "Afterguard! haul taut the weather main-brace." This was exactly what he meant. He was very particular and captious when not properly addressed.
More than a dozen retired seamen, mostly Frenchmen, found their Snug Harbor in the Cercle Bougainville, where liberty, equality, and fraternity had their home, and where Joseph bounded when orders for the figurative splicing of the main-brace came from the tables.
'What will Nelson think of us! was Riou's mournful exclamation when he unwillingly drew off. He had been wounded in the head by a splinter, and was sitting on a gun, encouraging his men, when, just as the Amazon showed her stern to the Trekroner Battery, his clerk was killed by his side, and another shot swept away several marines who were hauling in the main-brace.
He was sitting on a gun, was encouraging his men, and had been wounded in the head by a splinter. He had expressed himself grieved at being thus obliged to retreat, and nobly observed, 'What will Nelson think of us? His clerk was killed by his side; and by another shot, several of the marines, while hauling on the main-brace, shared the same fate.
"He can't swim a stroke," exclaimed Ned to the skipper; and then, before the latter could stop him, the gallant fellow took a short run, and plunged headlong into the foaming wake of the ship. "Down helm!" exclaimed the skipper to the man at the wheel, springing at the same time to the lee main-brace, which he let fly.
One day he went on deck, and actually gave me the following very intelligible order: "Mr What's-his-name, have the goodness to what-do-ye-call-'em the the thingumbob." "Ay, ay, my lord!" said I. "Afterguard, haul taut the weather main-brace!" This was exactly what he meant. He was very particular and captious when not properly addressed.
"She wun't budge!" he cried, his face crimson with honest effort. "Seems she's grow'd in loike." "Fool!" he cried. "Lend a hand with the boom here! Shove, boy, shove! Now on to the main-brace! No, fool, no! Here on to this! Now all together heave! heave! heave!" The great sail rose, groaning terribly. Heaven send the smugglers hadn't heard! But they had. So much a far scream told them.
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