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At half-past nine on the morning of the 12th of May, upon the 2nd lieutenant's giving orders to "clear hawse," the ship's company got on the booms and gave three cheers, which were at once answered from the Director. They then reeved yard-ropes as a menace to those of the crew who would not join them, and trained the forecastle guns on the quarter-deck as a hint to the officers.
He fitted the inner side of the crosspiece of the gallows with pegs upon which the rope rested, entirely out of sight of him upon whom it was presently to be used, until the moment when Uncle Tobe, stretching a long arm upward, brought it down, all reeved and ready.
An eye was made at one end, and through this the other end was reeved so that a running noose was obtained, in the same manner as the Mexicans and Indians make their lassoes. The rope was now ready for use, and Basil was the very hand to use it; for Basil knew how to fling a lasso as well as either Mexican or Indian.
The shark came close to the side of the whale at that moment, and Tom sent the harpoon right down his throat. "Hold on hard," shouted Tom. "Aye, aye," replied several of the men as they held on to the line, their arms jerking violently as the savage fish tried to free itself. We quickly reeved a line through a block at the fore yard-arm, and hauled it on deck with much difficulty.
"Let's put off to-night right away," said Wilbur. "Low tide," answered Moran; "and besides Charlie, did you see them close? Were you near them?" "No go muchee close." "Did they have something with them, reeved up in a hammock something that smelled sweet?" "Like a joss-stick, for instance?" "No savvy; no can tell. Him try catch um schooner sure. Him velly bad China boy.
"I am afraid," he said, "Monsieur de Beaulieu, that you do not perfectly understand the choice I have to offer you. Follow me, I beseech you, to this window." And he led the way to one of the large windows which stood open on the night. "You observe," he went on, "there is an iron ring in the upper masonry, and reeved through that, a very efficacious rope.
A yard, across the upright mast, and a rope stretched along it, and reeved through a block at each end, formed an extempore crane, which afforded the means of lowering an arm-chair down to the flat shelf on which the sufferers had roosted. Lovel bound Miss Wardour to the back and arms of the chair, while Ochiltree kept Sir Arthur quiet. "What are ye doing wi' my bairn?
A block hung from the top of the hut, with a rope reeved in it; one end was made fast to the upper edge of the bath, and the other went down into the bath. In this way the bather himself could raise the bath without assistance, and free himself when the heat became too great. The temperature outside the snow-wall was -65° F. Cunning lads!
Ropes were reeved through pulleys in the ceiling, for raising the wire-ball device to permit entrance. And standing ready around it, were four men in surgeons' smocks white men with intelligent faces and dull, lifeless eyes. The Hawk knew the answer to the question he curtly asked. "Its purpose, Dr. Ku?" "That," came the suave reply, "it will be your pleasure to discover for yourself.
By means of a string long enough to reach the bottom of the river, and at the end of which string was fastened a stone, the board was kept, as it were, at anchor. One end of the new rope I had bought in town was reeved through the chain of the shark-hook and the other end fastened to a tree on the sandbank. It was now an hour after sunset.
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