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Updated: May 2, 2025
"So when Pengarvan came to me as a boy, on the quay here, and asked me to take him with me to sea, I did not much like doing so; for I saw at once, by his speech, that he was Cornish; but I did not like to turn him away, for he said that he was willing, and accustomed to the sea. So I gave him a trial, and he has turned out a first-rate sailor.
"Pengarvan, set four hands aside to go on shore, with the boat, an hour before daybreak. Tell them off to sleep where you can lay hands upon them, easily. Keep the boat alongside, and make off to the wharf as noiselessly as you can; but I shall be on deck, then, and will give you further orders." The second mate only replied, "Ay, ay, Captain Hawkshaw," for he was a man of but few words.
The captain nodded. "You are right, Pengarvan. We should be in a fix, then; and four Spaniards at once is more than we bargained for." They were now within two miles of the point towards which they were steering, and towards which the eyes of the two officers on the poop were directed.
The first mate went forward, and he and Pengarvan saw the anchors got in readiness, and the cables ranged along, so as to run out with perfect freedom. Then Pengarvan made his way aft again to the poop. "Do you mean to cut away the mast, Captain?" The captain nodded. "I wouldn't, sir," the mate went on.
"She will never hold, mast or no mast; and if it stands, we make a shift to run her head foremost on the rocks, and this will give us a better chance than if she drifts broadside on." "You are right, Pengarvan. Yes, it will be better to leave it standing." When within a quarter of a mile of the shore, the helm was again put down and, as the vessel came partly round, the the anchors were let go.
The full one is content, however matters go." Pengarvan had not again opened his lips. He nodded occasionally, and that was all his captain expected of him; but the fact that he had guessed the destination of the ship, added to the esteem which Reuben Hawkshaw had for his second mate. Three days later Reuben Hawkshaw called the crew together, and informed them of their destination.
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