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Updated: May 21, 2025
No one who has not stood at a pump-break on board a vessel, can form any notion of the nature of the toil, or of the extreme dislike with which seamen regard it. The tread-mill, as we conceive for our experience extends to the first, though not to the last of these occupations is the nearest approach to the pain of such toil, though the convict does not work for his life.
Such was now the case, the harsh but familiar strokes of the pump-break being audible amid the more solemn and grand sounds of the grating of ice-bergs, the rushing of floes, and the occasional scuffling and howling of the winds.
"If this goes on, Captain Daggett, it will be hard work to keep your schooner afloat!" "Afloat she shall be, while a pump-break can work. Here, rig this larboard pump at once, and get it in motion." "It is possible that your seams opened under the nip, and have closed again, as soon as the schooner got free. In such a case, ten minutes at the pump will let us know it."
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