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Updated: June 23, 2025
Half-an-hour arterwards the cap'n comes running up on deck again. "'Mr. McMillan, ses he excitedly, 'steer nor'-nor'-west until further orders. I've heard it again, an' this time it nearly split the drum of my ear. "The ship's course was altered, an' after the old man was satisfied he went back to bed again, an' almost directly arter eight bells went, an' I was relieved.
Saunders spoke a mongrel kind of language a mixture of Scotch and English, in which, although the Scotch words were sparsely scattered, the Scotch accent was very strong. "How's her head?" "Nor'-nor'-west, sir." "Keep her there, then. Maybe, if the wind holds stiddy, we may overhaul them before it's quite dark."
How's the wind?" said the master, throwing his feet outside the standing bed-place, as he sat up. "North West, veering to Nor'-Nor'-West in the squalls. We have lost good ten miles since yesterday evening, and are close to Dudden Sands," replied Newton. "I think we must bear up, for the gale shows no signs of breaking."
However, `all's well that ends well, so we will first take the mainsail off her, Mr Howard, and then you may splice the main-brace and call the watch. Let her go along clean full, quartermaster; there is nothing to leeward now that we need be afraid of. How's her head?" "Nor'-nor'-west, sir," answered the quartermaster.
Night fell soon after this; but the long-boat still held her way, running before the wind, and steering a nor'-nor'-west course by compass. We had now been going in that direction some two hours or more, and the skipper calculated that we were some thirty miles off the Wollaston Islands, which we ought to fetch by daylight next morning.
"Nor'-nor'-west," echoed Maxwell, seizing his parallel ruler and applying it to the chart. "And two and a half points of leeway, applied to the right, makes it north, half east; while Point du Raz bears or bore north, three-quarters east. Um!
It was but scraps that reached me: how he "filled her on the starboard tack," and how "it came up sudden out of the nor'-nor'-west," and "there she was, high and dry." Sometimes he would appeal to one of the men "That was how it was, Jack?" and the man would reply, "That was the way of it, Captain Trent."
Even when he had to steer nor'-nor'-west arter that in the way o' business he didn't like it, an' he was about the most cruelly disappointed man you ever saw when he heard afterwards that Cap'n Naskett got safe to Liverpool." It was a still fair evening in late summer in the parish of Wapping.
"Keep her north-west," added Leopold, as he just saw the ledges whitened with sea foam. He still retained his position on the bowsprit, with his attention fixed upon some point on the weather-bow. "That's it! Dip point!" said he, as he listened to the breakers. "Keep her nor'-nor'-west!"
Instead of steering nor'-nor'-west, as they would have done had they intended to go round the Shetland Islands, or north-west, had they chosen the course between the Orkneys and the Shetlands, the Russian vessels kept a due westerly course during the rest of the day, and this course could only take them to the Scotch coast near Aberdeen.
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