mast-end

Updated: May 9, 2025

I timed my leap, and made it, landing in the cleft in a scramble and ready to lend a hand to those who leaped after. It was slow work. We were wet and half freezing in the wind-drive. Besides, the leaps had to be timed to the roll of the hull and the sway of the mast. The cook was the first to go. He was snapped off the mast-end, and his body performed cart-wheels in its fall.

Jack London - The Jacket (Star-Rover)