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"Well, Jack, what news from the Poughkeepsie?" demanded the mate. "You have been gone long enough to make sure of your errand. Is it certain that we are not to see the man-of-war's-men to-night." "Whatever you see, my advice to you is to keep close, and to be on your guard," answered Jack, evasively. "I have little fear of any of Uncle Sam's craft.
It is concerning such things as the subject of this chapter that special enactments of Congress are demanded. Health and comfort so far as duly attainable under the circumstances should be legally guaranteed to the man-of-war's-men; and not left to the discretion or caprice of their commanders.
Even Vaudreuil saw that. Pouchot was left at Niagara with 1,000 men. De la Corne had another 1,000 on the shores of Lake Ontario. Bourlamaque held Lake Champlain with 3,000. But the key of all Canada was Quebec; and so every man who could be spared was brought down to defend it. Saunders and Wolfe had 27,000 men of all kinds, 9,000 soldiers and 18,000 sailors, mostly man-of-war's-men.
But it is remarkable that those songs which would lead one to think that man-of-war's-men are the most care-free, contented, virtuous, and patriotic of mankind were composed at a time when the English Navy was principally manned by felons and paupers, as mentioned in a former chapter.
"They do not look like first-rate man-of-war's-men; by activity and surprise, could we not handle them?" Marble laid a finger on his nose, winked, looked as sagacious as he knew how, and then went to the steerage door, which communicated with the companion-way, to listen if all were safe in that quarter.
And his position on board the various man-of-war's-men in which he traveled on many seas was never merely ornamental or even exceptional. He took not only the title but also the work of the offices he held, from midshipman to admiral. It was characteristic of him, too, that when he married, he did so out of love.
It is noteworthy that English man-of-war's-men, and also merchant seamen of these stirring times, should have formed so favourable an impression of Napoleon, especially as the Press of England teemed with hostility against him.
Whether this story be wholly true or not, or whether the particular law involved prevails, or ever did prevail, in the English Navy, the thing, nevertheless, illustrates the ideas that man-of-war's-men themselves have touching the tribunals in question.
There was a stiffish breeze blowing, as one of the man-of-war's-men expressed it and "a nasty sea on" he did not say on what. There must have been something nasty, also, on Tomeo's stomach, from the violent way in which he sought to get rid of it at times without success. "Oh!
With all the experiences of that cruise accumulated in one intense recollection of a moment; with the smell of tar in their nostrils; out of sight of land; with a stout ship under foot, and snuffing the ocean air; with all the things of the sea surrounding them; in their cool, sober moments of reflection; in the silence and solitude of the deep, during the long night-watches, when all their holy home associations were thronging round their hearts; in the spontaneous piety and devotion of the last hours of so long a voyage; in the fullness and the frankness of their souls; when there was naught to jar the well-poised equilibrium of their judgment under all these circumstances, at least nine tenths of a crew of five hundred man-of-war's-men resolved for ever to turn their backs on the sea.
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