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Run up the jib and fore-staysail. Set the foresail and mainsail." These orders followed in rapid succession. The men did not require to be told to be smart about the work. Round came the schooner's head. Her sails filled, and, under complete command, she stood towards the bar. A clear piece of water showed the only passage she could take with safety.
We blackened the schooner's yellow sides with a mixture of gunpowder and water. This, however, was not a very safe pigment, for if a spark of fire had happened to have come in contact with any part of her side, it would have communicated from one extremity to the other: but it served for a temporary disguise, which was all we required.
As the morning wore on the breeze freshened somewhat, and the schooner's speed increased to fully seven knots.
He fell across the gunwale of the boat and was shoved overboard by Duff, while Ralph, seizing an oar, placed an end against the schooner's stern-post and threw all his waning strength upon it, sending the yawl out from under the shelter of the ship. When the negroes saw two whites instead of one they appeared beside themselves with rage.
I hope they will," replied the principal, as he ascended to the schooner's deck, followed by Mr. Fluxion and Paul. At the request of the principal, Mr. Fluxion acted as interpreter in the conversation with the Dutch skipper. The unfortunate man stated his case, and bewailed the heavy loss to which he had been subjected by the tempest. "Call all hands, if you please, Captain Kendall," said Mr.
He looked over the stern again, shook his head sadly, and, after a visit to the cabin, clambered over the schooner's side and got ashore.
Yet, when the reopened hatches let in the sweet smell of the land, Bras-Coupé had come to the upper the favored the buttered side of the world; the anchor slid with a rumble of relief down through the muddy fathoms of the Mississippi, and the prince could hear through the schooner's side the savage current of the river, leaping and licking about the bows, and whimpering low welcomes home.
She was running before them, rising sharply, and dropping down out of sight of all but the schooner's canvas into the hollows, and though this made rowing easier he was apprehensive of difficulties when he reached the ice. His misgivings proved warranted as they closed with it, for it presented an almost unbroken wall against the face of which the sea spouted and fell in frothy wisps.
"The thing's worth over a million pounds," appraised Caradoc. Suddenly Madden straightened with an idea. "How about hitching that schooner to the dock and towing her?" "What an American idea!" Caradoc lifted his voice slightly. "Would we make any headway, sir, with the schooner's light machinery?" asked Greer, his sentence punctuated by shoves at his oar. "We would have to try and see.
There were many slave-dealers on the schooner's deck when the boats came in sight, but they all jumped overboard, and swam to the shore. Monday, 4. At daylight, Captain Smith left us to assist in bringing the prize out of the river, but the day being calm, she was not removed. We burnt blue lights, at intervals, during the night, as signals to the prize, or any boat that might be sent from her.
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