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Updated: May 4, 2025
The Admiral laughed in enjoyment of the picture his mind conjured up of the Master-Attendant vainly trying to shake me off. "Poor Carline!" he remarked. "How he must have suffered before he could bring himself to the point of setting aside all his other work to attend to you.
The master-attendant now explained to the natives that they had nothing more to do than to continue lying flat and still on the water, till the people on board the ship, by heaving in the cable, should bring the anchor to the bows, and thus relieve them of their burden.
We were very glad when the master-attendant came on board to take us into the Sound; and still more glad to perceive that the brig, which had just been launched before O'Brien was appointed to her, appeared to sail very fast as she ran out.
Sir Peter was as much surprised as pleased when I reported to him the amount of progress that I had made during the day. "It is wonderful!" he exclaimed. "How in the world did you manage it?" "Simply by sticking to the Master-Attendant, and so preventing him from doing anything else until he had attended to my requirements," I replied.
She is called the Wasp, and if you have as much enterprise as I give you credit for, you ought to make her sting to some purpose. You will find her in Hulk Hole, and Stop a minute." He rang a bell and a messenger entered. "Jones," said Sir Peter, "have you any idea where the master-attendant is?" "Yes, sir," answered the man, "he was outside on the wharf not half a minute ago."
This day I was told by Mr. Wren, that Captain Cox, Master-Attendant at Deptford, is to be one of us very soon, he and Tippets being to take their turns for Chatham and Portsmouth, which choice I like well enough; and Captain Annesley is to come in his room at Deptford.
It is not possible to refrain speaking in raptures of the handsome conduct of Mr. Hemmings, the master-attendant, who, at the imminent risk of his life, saved hundreds. If I had not hurt my leg, and been otherwise much bruised, I would have waited on you; but hope this will be a passable excuse. I am, with respect, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, ED. PELLEW." "Thursday evening."
It was not, however, until we got close to her, and Carline caused his boatmen to pull slowly round her, that I detected what the Admiral and the master-attendant meant when they had spoken of the freakish peculiarities of her model; then, indeed, it became apparent that her designer had, as Sir Peter had said, literally turned her lines end for end, as it were.
Hemmings, the master-attendant, by whose caution and judgment they were enabled to approach the wreck, and receive the more helpless of the passengers, who were carried to the cutter. Sir Edward, with his sword drawn, directed the proceedings, and preserved order a task the more difficult, as the soldiers had got at the spirits before he came on board, and many were drunk.
But the master-attendant of Porto Novo, who had come off to our assistance with a fleet of canoes and rafts, suggested to Sir Samuel Hood that it might he a good opportunity to try the skill of the natives, who were celebrated for their expertness in raising great weights from the bottom. The proposal was one which delighted the Admiral, who enjoyed everything that was new.
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