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Updated: June 10, 2025
Those storm clouds were blowing up the something I wanted to happen, though how promptly would I have changed my wish had I but guessed! But Fate had loosed that nor'west gale and there was no stopping the order of things now. In the night I remember waking once or twice to hear the wind shouting down the chimney, and to feel very snug in bed.
He set out again because his provisions were low and he was in haste to reach the end of his journey, as I suppose; but the weather did not mend, snow was falling, the nor'west wind never eased, and it is likely he caught no glimpse of the sun to guide him, for the Indians said that his tracks turned off from the river Croche which he had been following and wandered away, straight to the north."
He was the great beach of Kerguelen and the sea-bulls and the distant islands, he was the hand that had destroyed Loneliness and driven away Death, the child who had listened to Jack and the Bean Stalk, the Lion that had destroyed Chang, the companion in a loneliness ringed with despair. One morning beyond the 40th parallel, and some two hundred miles to the nor'west of St.
The track toward Lime Point could mean but one thing. The wind was freshening from the nor'west, the ebb tide rushing out to meet the ocean like a mill-race, at every moment the Golden Gate opened out wider, and within two minutes after the time of the last tack the "Bertha Millner" heeled to a great gust that had come booming in between the heads, straight from the open Pacific.
That's the Bell Rock Light on the weather-bow, I s'pose." "Oui, dat is de Bell Roke." "Wery good; our course is due nor'west." So saying, the man took the wheel and laid the ship's course accordingly.
From aloft a burning shred of rope stuff fell square on the back of Captain Davenport's neck. He acted with the celerity of one stung by a bee as he reached up and brushed the offending fire from his skin. "How is she heading, Captain?" "Nor'west by west." "Keep her west-nor-west." Captain Davenport put the wheel up and steadied her. "West by north, Captain." "West by north she is."
They were sure of their approach when they perceived a hazy atmosphere, the red aspect of the sun, a dull, rumbling, subterranean sound, the stars shining through a kind of mist which made them look larger, the nor'west horizon heavily clouded, a strong-smelling emanation from the sea, a heavy swell with calm weather, and sudden changes of the wind from east to west."
That's the Bell Rock Light on the weather-bow, I s'pose." "Oui, dat is de Bell Roke." "Wery good; our course is due nor'west." So saying, the man took the wheel and laid the ship's course accordingly.
He had been up nor'west a hundred and fifty miles, and he had come down-stream alone with his raft- which in the usual course should take two men to guide it through slides, over rapids, and in strong currents.
I'd as soon try to sail a whole lumber-yard to good advantage. Gi' me an old-fashioned house an' an old-style vessel; there was some plan an' reason to 'em. Now that new house of Asa Shaw's he's put so much money in looks as if a nor'west wind took an' hove it together. Shaw's just the man to call for one o' them schooners we just spoke of."
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