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Updated: May 12, 2025
The Nancy Bell was then steering nor'-nor'-east and some ten miles off the land, with the wind coming from the northward and westward in squalls.
Colin had settled himself under the blankets for the night and just dropped off to sleep when there came a hail from the masthead. "Fish! Lyin' nor'-nor'-east." Every man stirred in his bunk, but none made a move. Colin, who had wakened instantly with muscles tense and ready to spring out, followed the example of the others round him, and waited.
I actually stopped you when you were putting the fourth lump in. Oh yes," I said bitterly, "I am getting on." Miss Middleton poked the fire vigorously. "About the lunges," she said. "Ten to the east, ten to the west, ten to the nor'-nor'-east, ten to-" "Yes. Well, I should have thought that that was just the thing to keep you young." "It is. That's the tragedy of it.
To come now to the smaller subdivisions, it will suffice to take a quarter of the circle. Thus, in reading off the compass, we say beginning at north and proceeding to east North: north by east; nor'-nor'-east; nor'-east by north; nor'-east; nor'-east by east; east nor'-east; east by north; east; and so on with the other quarters of the circle. So much for "boxing the compass."
It will take us very little out of our way, and if the Dagoes learn that we are going to call in at a British port on our way, it may steady them a bit and help them to see that their wisest plan will be to settle down and behave themselves. Now I am going to shift the helm. Haul up to Nor'-Nor'-East, and take a pull upon the lee braces."
He went ahead, keeping a wary eye for dangers and obstacles, and on the whole the donkeys followed docilely enough in his wake. Israel's post as captain was behind at the tiller-ropes, whence he shouted exact instructions with nautical exactitude, such as "A point to the west, Neddy!" Or, pathetically, "DID I say nor'-nor'-east, Teddy, or didn't I?"
Why, there was my brother Tom, in the Cunard service same that boast they never lost a passenger; there was my brother Tom, he was out one day off the Newfoundland banks, heavy swell setting in from the nor'-nor'-east, icebergs ahead, passengers battened down Bless my soul, how that light seems to come and go, don't it?"
Before that moment arrived, however, a little air of wind came along out from the westward, and, with our port braces slightly checked, we began to creep away on a nor'-nor'-east course for Boeroe Strait.
When my ball goes off nor'-nor'-east when I want it to go due west I can't help expressing an opinion about it. It is a curious phenomenon which calls for comment, and I give it. Similarly, when I top my drive, I have to go on record as saying that I did not do it intentionally. And it's just these trifles, as far as I can make out, that are going to decide the thing."
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