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Updated: July 25, 2025
It seems to me that ono of those coast storms you were speaking of is brewing up. The ice, too, is getting thick round us again; and if a fog comes on again we'll be in a worse position than yesterday, for then we'd plenty of sea-room at any rate, while now, we have that blessed island almost dead to leeward."
"Boatswain's mate," bawled out the sleepy and sulky Mr Rattlin, "watch and idlers, wear ship." "Ay, ay, sir whew, whew, whittle whew watch and idlers, wear ship! Tumble up there, tumble up. Master-at-arms, brush up the bone-polishers." "What an infarnal nonsensical ceremony!" growled the pilot, sotto voce; "all bawl and no hawl lucky we have plenty of sea-room."
I cannot guess where we are now may be off Ushant, may be not so far, for this sea is too short for the Bay; but the saints send us sea-room, for we have been wearing these three hours. 'Twas true enough that we had gone to wearing, as one might tell from the heavier roll or wallowing when we went round, instead of the plunging of a tack; but there was no chance of getting at our whereabouts.
But the next morning, shortly after daylight, when by my reckoning I had still forty odd miles of sea-room, land was made ahead, some five miles distant; and upon standing in a little closer, I was at length enabled to identify it as the headland of Cape Horn itself.
At any rate, Lord William smiled and bowed, and said he, "The Major and I will certainly do ourselves the pleasure of calling and tasting your ale, Mrs. Lebow." "The recipe is three hundred years old," said Kitty, and swept him a curtsey, the like of which for stateliness you don't see nowadays: it wants practice and sea-room.
Now Onund was the wisest of men, and bade lay five ships up into the sound, so that he and his might have back way when they would, for there was plenty of sea-room astern. On one board of them too was a certain island, and under the lee thereof he let one ship lie, and his men brought many great stones forth on to the sheer cliffs above, yet might not be seen withal from the ships.
We were heading due east, which was a great relief to my mind, as I knew that we had plenty of sea-room in that direction, and could run for days if need were without bringing up against anything. A man came working his way aft, hauling himself along by the bulwarks, to relieve the wheel, and Tompion joined me under the partial shelter of the companion.
Every dictate of prudence told him not to close with the canoes until he had plenty of sea-room. The course they were steering would take them all out of the group, into the open water, in the course of three or four hours, and he determined to follow at a convenient distance, just hastening the flight by occasional hints from his guns.
"Is there any hope for us, Dale?" he said on one occasion as we rested for a few moments underneath the bulwarks. "Oh yes," I replied. "Why not?" "I don't know, I'm not a sailor, but I should not have thought the ship could have kept on long like this without sinking." I laughed. "Why, she's a splendid boat," I said, "and quite strong, and so long as we've got plenty of sea-room, we shan't hurt."
I should like to slip my cable this next half-hour. I shan't be happy till we've got sea-room." McKay went below with the doctor, and, while the latter sat with his patient, the aide-de-camp had a short talk with Mrs. Wilders. "The captain wants to put to sea." "Never! not in this storm!" "It is abating fast.
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