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Updated: May 24, 2025
The second mate roused the watch, who had apparently taken refuge in the forecastle from the storm; the sloop was hauled up under the bark's stern; a second line was thrown to Bowsher, and one by one we were hoisted, in a sort of improvised breeches-buoy, to the Onward's quarterdeck.
I myself had not thought of this before, but I saw instantly that it offered a forlorn hope of escape, and I was just poised in the act of following his example when on the quarter-deck of the bark, already twenty feet away, a white ghost-like figure appeared with uplifted arm, and a hoarse voice shouted, "Stand by to catch a line!" It was the Onward's second mate.
So we staggered on before the rising gale, trusting to luck, and hoping every moment that we should catch sight of the Onward's lights. It has always seemed to me that the most dangerous point of sailing in a small open boat in a high combing sea is running dead before the wind.
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