Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 15, 2025
I know ev'ry inch of her. You'll see when we go aboard. Let's go." Rainey led him down the gangway to the deck of the sealer, still cluttered a bit with unstowed gear. Once on board, the blind man seemed to walk with assurance, guiding himself with touches here and there that showed his familiarity with the vessel's rig.
I next paid 'fees to the Deputy, the Lord Chancellor's Purse-bearer, two pound, two. I next paid 'fees to the Clerk of the Hanapar, seven pound, thirteen. I next paid 'fees to the Deputy Clerk of the Hanaper, ten shillings. I next paid, to the Lord Chancellor again, one pound, eleven, and six. Last of all, I paid 'fees to the Deputy Sealer, and Deputy Chaff- wax, ten shillings and sixpence.
Just one ship and a lot of men! The ship was not even a handsome one, being merely a three-masted steam sealer, greasy and smeared in every part with coal soot from her tall smoke stack. She lay a mile or so away, but well within the pack, through the outer edge of which she had forced a passage.
With his pumpkin for a chart, his instinct for an observation, and his nose for a compass, the sturdy sealer stood boldly to the southward; or, at least, he ran dead before a stiff gale, which, as he more than once affirmed, was as true a norther as if bred and born in the Canadas.
We could talk to them, and one of them told us about a schooner lying in an inlet by a settlement. The Russians had brought her there from the islands, and she must have been a sealer. Jake figured it was just possible we might run away with her and push across for the Aleutians or Alaska." Charly looked up suddenly. "She was a sealer Hayson's Seminole.
But losing no time in mere compliments, Captain Delano, returning to the gangway, had his basket of fish brought up; and as the wind still continued light, so that some hours at least must elapse ere the ship could be brought to the anchorage, he bade his men return to the sealer, and fetch back as much water as the whale-boat could carry, with whatever soft bread the steward might have, all the remaining pumpkins on board, with a box of sugar, and a dozen of his private bottles of cider.
The sixth sealer was much older and of the riverman type. He had evidently come up from the ranks. There was no general conversation. Talk confined itself strictly to shop. Bob, his imagination already stirred by the incidents of his stroll, listened eagerly. Fox was getting in touch with the whole situation.
But it needed not: the pilot rang his bell, and the sealer became motionless in the centre of the pool. As they came alongside, a stout, full-bearded man, in a Guernsey frock, threw them a rope, and hailed the strange little craft: "What, do'ee want, friends, and where do'ee hail from?" "We are sportsmen, carried off, by the ice, in the straits, eleven days ago.
"Perhaps she may be a sealer, and landed some of the crew to catch seals from the shore. If so, she may return," remarked the captain. "She does not look like one," said Willy. The bottom of the hill was reached. They made their way along the beach. In a sheltered spot a hut was seen. It was rudely constructed from the wreck of a vessel.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking