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Updated: June 12, 2025
"You've both got your moorings up, I s'pose?" he inquired. "Got 'em up this evening," replied Tucker. "We're just made fast one on each side of the Dolphin now." "The wind's light, but it's from the right quarter," said Captain Berrow, "an' I only hope as 'ow the best ship'll win.
At fifteen out all night long, up an' down the river, schemin' all ways to circumvent the watchmen, for they're that 'cute it needs all your brains an' more to get ahead of 'em. You see, a ship'll come in an' unload partly, an' there's two or three days they're on the keen lookout till they're nigh empty; an' then's the best time for light plunder ropes an' such.
Looking down through the doorway, we saw, by the way the water was pouring in at the opening, that it wouldn't be long before that compartment was filled up; so we shoved the door to and made it all tight, and then said William Anderson, 'The ship'll sink deeper and deeper as that fills up, and the water may get up to the cabin door, and we must go and make that as tight as we can. Sam had pulled the ladder up after him, and this we found of great use in getting to the foot of the cabin stairs.
And then a voice that I recognized for the steward's answered: "But the doctor ordered it. Where's an axe for a try?" To which the other man answered back again: "If it was the doctor himself we couldn't do it, and we'll tell him so. The ship'll be down in five minutes. We've got to run for it or the boats'll be off."
So we'm going on a matter o' two days' sail to the most beautiful island in these here parts, called Trinidad, after the impious fashion o' the Spaniards, where I knows of a fine, snug little cove where the ship'll be so safe as ever she was to Millbay, and where we needn't fear either hurricanes or Spaniards.
Pole had uttered mysterious phrases: "You don't know what you've been doing: You think the ship'll go on sailing without wind: You'll drive the horse till he drops," and such like; together with mutterings. The words were of no import whatsoever to the ladies. They were writings on the wall; untranslateable.
"'Tis the soldiers have betther treatment than the officers whin it comes to boardin' transports," said the friendly policeman. "They get marched straight on board. The officers and their belongin's has to wait till they've gone through hivin knows what formalities. So you needn't worry, miss, an' take your time. The ould ship'll be there hours yet."
Then I sang out to mun `Cap'n Drake, says I, `if you don't come aboard this very minute, says I, `the ship'll break adrift and go off and leave ye behind. The Cap'n took a look round, see'd that evrybody else but hisself was either cut down or took prisoner, and, flinging his soord in the face of a man that tried to stop mun, leaped clean off quay, seized the hawser in 's hands as mun jumped, and come aboard that way, hand over hand.
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