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Updated: May 8, 2025
For this purpose the smallest chain-cable was used, the rudder being raised from the deck by means of sheers. We then got a set of chain-topsail sheets, parcelled them well, and took a clove hitch with them around the rudder, about half-way up. One end was brought into each main-chain, and set up by tackles.
"So I luffs up alongside, and fell aboard Er Oliness like a mighty great mountain above us she was, all poop, and galleries, and Armada fittins. "When our bow scraped her quarter, "'Anybody for the shore! pipes the Captain; and he jumps into her main-chain.... "Ah, but you should ha heard the men cheer!" The old man paused, breathing deep.
The cutter soon began to gather way, and before the old man could imagine why, or whence the increase of traction came, the main-chain slipped through his fingers, and he fell quietly but backwards in his pram. I am sorry to say our fair prisoner laughed as heartily as any one else at the comical attitude of the old man.
We were washing through it at twelve or thirteen knots an hour, though the ship was as stiff as a madman in a strait-jacket, with the compressed wool in her hold and loaded down to her main-chain bolts besides.
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