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Updated: May 23, 2025
And what was that line of dark objects dangling along the mainyard? A line of hanged men! And, horror of horrors, from the yard-arm close above him, John Oxenham's corpse looked down with grave-light eyes, and beckoned and pointed, as if to show him his way, and strove to speak, and could not, and pointed still, not forward, but back along their course.
"That must go no farther than you and me," said Hadow. "It shall not, sir," returned the first lieutenant. "We shall sail to-night at the turn of the tide," said the captain. "Very good, sir," said Mr. Francis. It was not nine months it was fifteen, and some days to spare before the Dauntless again raised the peak of Borabora and backed her mainyard off the settlement.
Helen's, join the fleet under the command of Sir C O gle, and proceed for the West Indies are overtaken by a terrible tempest my friend Jack Rattlin has his leg broke by a fall from the mainyard the behaviour of Mr. Mackshane Jack opposes the amputation of his limb, in which he is seconded by Morgan and me, we undertake the cure and perform it successfully
Aloft, a man was seen to clamber from our mainyard into the very top of the Englishman, where he threw a hand-grenade, as I thought, down her main hatch.
On the rocks in this bay lay the wreck of what once had been a noble ship. It was now completely dismantled. Her hull was stove in by the rocks. Her masts and yards were gone, with the exception of their stumps and the lower part of the main-mast, to which the mainyard still hung with a ragged portion of the mainsail attached to it.
The man-of-war got under way again by swinging her great mainyard smartly about. The smother at her bows gleamed whiter at the very instant, as she gathered way. It was a blessed sight to me, after my suspense, I assure you; but I did not understand it till later. I learned later on that Captain Barlow was one of a kind of men very common in those troublous times. He was hedging, or trimming.
At length her main-topsail yard was shot away in the slings by a double-headed shot, and the yard-arms came down in front of the mainyard, the leech ropes of the mainsail were cut to pieces and the sail riddled. All the time, also, whenever the ships were within musket-range, showers of bullets came rattling on board, and several of the men were laid low.
The little brig picked up her boat, swung her mainyard, and filled away again on the port tack, in the wake of the rest of the little squadron now far ahead; then, understanding the forbearance of the big ship, she fired a gun to leeward and dipped her ensign in salute.
"Out with it, whatever it is," exclaimed Uncle Jack, fixing his eyes on the man, to judge whether he spoke the truth. "It's a matter of over four years gone by when we sailed for the Eastern seas. We had been knocking about in them parts for some months, when we were caught in a regular hurricane, which carried away our topmasts and mainyard, and did other damage.
So, when Captain Solomon saw him on the third morning, he spoke to the mate. "Better get rid of that fellow, Mr. Steele," he said. "Got a shark hook?" "Yes, sir," answered the mate. "But I'm afraid it isn't big enough for him." But Captain Solomon told him to try it, anyway. And he called some of the sailors and told them to rig a tackle on the end of the mainyard.
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