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Updated: May 10, 2025
He laid hold of the ring-bolt, and jumped out at the port-hole into the sea: I believe he was drowned, for I never saw him afterwards. I immediately got out at the same port-hole, which was the third from the head of the ship on the starboard side of the lower gun-deck, and when I had done so, I saw the port-hole as full of heads as it could cram, all trying to get out.
And if all the men who, since the beginning of the world, have mainly contributed to the warlike successes or reverses of nations, were now mustered together, we should be amazed to behold but a handful of heroes. For there is no heroism in merely running in and out a gun at a port-hole, enveloped in smoke or vapour, or in firing off muskets in platoons at the word of command.
I waved my handkerchief out of the port-hole and then waited three or four minutes as if we in the houses were talking it over; then I walked boldly out the back door. Kaiser wanted to go along, so I let him. The man walked very slowly, and I did the same, but we came up within a few steps of each other at last. This was out not very far from the water-tank.
By 12 A. M. it was a perfect calm; the men were now busily employed clearing the gun-deck, and securing every port-hole and scuttle in which they effectually succeeded by 1 P. M.
I'll let daylight dawn through some o' their jackets, I know. "Jube, you infarnal black scoundrel, you odoriferous nigger you, what's that you've got there?" "An apple, massa." "Take off your cap and put that apple on your head, then stand sideways by that port-hole, and hold steady, or you might stand a smart chance to have your wool carded, that's all."
He is not the man to forsake a comrade in distress." "That was my own opinion," returned the sailor, "till I seed him go slap through yon port-hole like a harlequin." "P'r'aps he tink he kin do us more service w'en free dan as a prisoner," suggested Ebony. "There's somethin' in that," returned Hockins, lifting his hand to stroke his beard, as was his wont when thoughtful.
Peering through the port-hole I could see Triplett by the light of a phosphorous dip working on a rude diagram; at his elbow was the blue flower in a puta-shell of water. "Triplett," I asked sternly, as I stood beside him an instant later, "what is that flower?" "That," said Triplett, "is a compass-plant." "And what is a compass-plant?"
Here a rope, which had been cut by the French fire, was hanging overboard, and, grasping this, they climbed up to a port-hole. The deck was deserted, all hands having rushed up to meet the attack of the French boarders. Without a moment’s delay they snatched cutlasses from a rack and ran up the companion to the upper deck. Here things were going somewhat badly.
I've got to hold on, same as the rest, and be glad, I suppose, that I am alive," and poor Sam looked utterly miserable. It was very close in the cabin, but neither door nor port-hole could be opened for fear of the water coming in. Dinner was a farce, to use Tom's way of expressing it, for everything was cold and had to be eaten out of hand or from a tin cup.
The next moment carriage and traveler vanished down the road in a cloud of dust, but an alert observer might have noticed an eye at the rear port-hole, as though the person within was supplementing his brief observation from the side with a longer, if diminishing, view from behind. The countenance of the young girl's companion retrograded from its new-found favor to a more inexorable cast.
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