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Updated: June 25, 2025
Two points off the starboard bow she bears." "The maintop, ahoy!" shouted Blackbeard. "Can ye see a vessel's spars?" "'Tis too hazy inshore. But unless my eyes play me tricks, a smudge of smoke arises." Jack Cockrell nervously confided to Joe: "That would be Captain Wellsby's campfire on the beach." "Trust him to douse it," was the easy assurance. "I feel better.
She did not stop to talk with him, however, but pushed on to where her mother and father were sitting not far from the taffrail. "Mamma, I've been out in the steerage." "You'll be in the maintop next, I don't doubt," said her father, laughing. "I've been talking to the Irish girl that caught my hat yesterday." "You shouldn't talk to steerage people," said Mrs. Thorne.
Yāni, the Christian shipbuilder of the Sultan, had studied the improvements of the Venetians, and he now constructed two immense kokas, seventy cubits long and thirty in the beam, with masts of several trees spliced together, measuring four cubits round. Forty men in armour might stand in the maintop and fire down upon the enemy.
So when he came by my Lord's side, he took down his flag, and all the day did not hoist it again, but next day my Lord did tell him that it was not so fit to ride without a flag, and therefore told him that he should wear it in the fore-top, for it seems my Lord saw his instructions, which were that he should not wear his flag in the maintop in the presence of the Duke or my Lord.
For to heave the ship to, just when we all had been whistling for enough breeze to give her something more than steerage way, seemed nothing short of insane. Acuma climbed to the maintop and looked at the coast of Peru with a telescope, and the captain took bearings with his instruments.
They were as stiff as hand-spikes after that long spell in the maintop. I descended as low down as the sheer-pole, breathlessly watching. They pulled the boat under the bow, and Bill Martin with lifted oar made as though spearing at the brute's head.
The elderly stout man of the watch felt that it was no ordinary occasion, and grunted out that he was b well going to lash himself to the haulyards, as he felt wearied. The lee yardarm man managed to crawl in on the foot-rope, got into the maintop, and fell asleep there, while the gradual cessation of speech from the champions to windward indicated that they also slept.
"I believe I do, Mick," I said, squinting down as eagerly as himself into the boat, near to which the ship was gradually sidling up, her way having been checked by her being brought up to the wind and the maintop- sail backed. "They are very quiet, poor chaps. I wonder if they are all dead?"
At ten we got a good sight of Johnny Crapaud's hull from the maintop, and found out that she was no frigate. I was not at all nervous before, but I must confess, at this certainty my courage rose considerably. I narrowly inspected the condition of the four after-quarter guns, my charge, and was very impressive on the powder-boys as to the necessity of activity, coolness, and presence of mind.
In a few minutes, the topsail yards were manned, and all three of the topsails furled at once. From the fore top-gallant yard, the men slid down the stay to furl the jib, and from the mizen top-gallant yard, by the stay, into the maintop, and thence to the yard; and the men on the topsail yards came down the lifts to the yard-arms of the courses.
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