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Updated: July 11, 2025
'It's getting too dark to see much with this telescope, said Jack, 'I wish we had a night-glass. The Indians ought to be here by this time they said "sunset," didn't they? If I was a Red Indian I would be punctual! When do you suppose they'll come, Clarence soon? 'How on earth do I know? snapped the General from within the tent. 'Well, you needn't get in a bait over it.
The inspector was pointing out-stream to a large vessel which had steamed inshore as far as was safe. Probably Hervey was watching for them through a night-glass, for a blue light suddenly flared on the bridge. Don Pedro, according to his promise, fired a pistol, and it was then that Date learned that his companions were armed. "What the devil did you do that for?" he inquired angrily.
On board the Avenger, they were not idle; the long gun in the centre had been cleared from the incumbrances which surrounded it, the other guns had been cast loose, shot handed up, and everything prepared for action, with all the energy and discipline of a man-of-war. The chase had not been lost sight of, and the eyes of the pirate captain were fixed upon her through a night-glass.
Mendouca had already seized the night-glass, and with its aid was subjecting her to a prolonged and searching scrutiny, upon the completion of which he handed the instrument to me, with the remark, in English "Take a good look at her, Dugdale, and tell me what you think of her?"
"The greater need for us to overtake our friends without delay," answered the second lieutenant, who shortly afterwards went forward to take a look through his night-glass, in the hope of distinguishing some of the lights which the merchant vessels had been directed to hang over the sterns.
The camp being in complete darkness, Dick took his station just inside the tent-flap and, with the aid of his night-glass, maintained a close watch upon the barque. Hitherto there had been something very much in the nature of a carouse carried on aboard her every night since her arrival, the revel usually lasting up until nearly midnight.
Johnson was in high spirits again. He sat aft near the taffrail, attentively watching the frigate through his night-glass long after she had disappeared from the naked eye; and when it at last became difficult to make her out even with the aid of the glass, he would lay it down, rub his eyes, take half a dozen turns along the deck, then pick up the glass again and have another spell at it.
And our supposition was most probably correct Ryan, indeed, who had sent for his night-glass and brought it to bear upon her, declared that he could detect an increase in the area of her shadowy canvas for even after we had made sail we could not perceive that we were in any wise decreasing the distance between the two vessels.
And with a sickly smile upon her lips, she undressed and laid herself down beside little Gjert. Upon deck Salvé had wanted the night-glass, which was down in the cabin. The look-out man had fancied that he had caught a glimpse for a moment of a light, in which case, against Salvé's calculations, they must be under Jutland.
Pipe starboard watch to quarters." The Enterprise closed with the frigate to windward, intending to run round her stern and bring to on the same tack. "He does not shorten sail yet, sir," said the first-lieutenant, as the schooner appeared skimming along about a cable's length on their weather bow. "And she is full of men, sir," said the master, looking at her through the night-glass.
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