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We pleased ourselves with the spectacle of Dublin's commerce the barges signalled from far away by their curls of woolly smoke, the brown fishing fleet beyond Ringsend, the big white sailing-vessel which was being discharged on the opposite quay.
The swordfish are always harpooned from the end of the bowsprit of a sailing-vessel. It is next to impossible to approach them in a small boat.
As for Alfred, he was too cast down to think of them. "Letty, they will part us." "No, my dear Alfred, no!" "Yes. Yes, they will. Oh, if you were only mine!" Miss Letty sighed. "Will you be true to me, Letty? I am to go on a sailing-vessel to China, to be gone two years. Will you wait for me?" Letty gave a little cry; two years! Her black woman twitched her sleeve.
The "Viking" was now exactly one month overdue; and as the distance from Newfoundland to the coast of Norway is comparatively short, this delay was beyond all reason, even for a sailing-vessel. Hulda seemed to have abandoned all hope; and her brother could not find a single word to say by way of encouragement.
"So the vessel is only twenty days overdue, if we reckon from the latest date appointed for the return of the 'Viking. That is enough to excite anxiety, I admit; still, we must not expect the same punctuality from a sailing-vessel as from a steamer." "I have told Hulda that again and again, and I tell her so yet," interrupted Joel. "And you are quite right, my boy.
I had drifted far from the sailing-vessel, when, as I floated high on the crest of a wave, I looked upon a pleasure-craft of some kind, riding high upon the breakers. Men who were not regular sailors looked with startled eyes on the terrible sea.
How the birds took advantage of the wind and made it lift them or sink them, or propel them forward; tacking, with infinite skill, right in the eye of the gale, like a sailing-vessel. It was not toil it was delight, rapture the very glory and ecstasy of living.
About seven years ago, an American packet-ship, the Massachusetts, a complete sailing-vessel in other respects, was provided with a screw and a steam-engine powerful enough to keep the ship moving when winds and tides were adverse; the screw was capable of being lifted out of the water when not in use.
There is something so exhilarating in the motion of a sailing-vessel, always provided she is neither rolling about in a calm, lying to in a gale, or beating against a head-wind. She seems to belong to the sea, with her tall tapering masts, her cloud of moving canvas, and her buoyant motion over the rolling waves.
"I'm not certain, but I think the first thing to do is to get her moving. Do you know, I've never discovered whether this boat was a steamboat or a sailing-vessel? Does anybody know?" "I think it has a naphtha tank and a propeller," said Elizabeth, "although I don't know.
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