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The Portugalls have choused us, it seems, in the Island of Bombay, in the East Indys; for after a great charge of our fleets being sent thither with full commission from the King of Portugall to receive it, the Governour by some pretence or other will not deliver it to Sir Abraham Shipman, sent from the King, nor to my Lord of Marlborough; which the King takes highly ill, and I fear our Queen will fare the worse for it.
Should it have chanced that we stopped at this island I should have craved your leave that I go ashore and ask for that which I have fairly won." Sir Robert Knolles laughed. "This business tickleth my fancy," said he. "As to stopping at the island, this shipman tells me that we must needs wait a day and a night, for that we have strained our planks.
He was a stockily built fellow of thirty with a clean-shaven face. "'Is that you, "Doc"? "'Yes, where does it hurt? ""Doc" Shipman who used to be at Bellevue five or six years ago? "'Yes now tell me where the pain is. "'Let me look at you. Yes that's him. That's the "Doc," boys. Where does it hurt? Oh, all around here back worst' and he passed his hand over his side.
But you must ring his bell at night say two o'clock A.M.; catch his cheery voice calling through the tube from his bedroom in the rear "Yes; coming right away be there soon as I get my clothes on" feel the strength and sympathy and readiness to help in the man, and try to keep step with him as he hurries on, and then watch him when he enters the sick-room, diffusing hope and cheer and confidence, and listen to the soft, soothing tones of his voice, before you really get at the inside lining of "Doc" Shipman.
If he had once judged Dick to be the right man to pursue Sir Daniel, he was not one to change; and he soon proved it by shouting after Catesby to be speedy, for the paladin was waiting. In the meanwhile, Dick turned to the old shipman, who had seemed equally indifferent to his condemnation and to his subsequent release.
"Where is the Shipman?" asked Knolles. "What is your name, fellow? Do you dare call yourself master-mariner?" "My name is Nat Dennis, fair sir," said the gray-bearded old seaman. "It is thirty years since first I showed my cartel and blew trumpet for a crew at the water-gate of Southampton. If any man may call himself master-mariner, it is surely I." "Where are our two ships?"
Of all the crew, this Ushant was most beloved by my glorious captain, Jack Chase, who one day pointed him out to me as the old man was slowly coming down the rigging from the fore-top. "There, White-Jacket! isn't that old Chaucer's shipman? "'A dagger hanging by a las hadde he, About his nekke, under his arm adown; The hote sommer hadde made his beard all brown.
He smiled proudly as he gazed around him and wiped his streaming face. "Where is the shipman?" he asked. "Let him lead us against another ship." "Nay, sire, the shipman and all his men have sunk in the Lion," said Thomas de Mohun, a young knight of the West Country, who carried the standard. "We have lost our ship and the half of our following. I fear that we can fight no more."
"Looks like rather good material, doesn't he, Bender?" inquired Mr. Trotter. "Green, of course, and yet " "I didn't come here to discuss Navy athletics," replied Midshipman Bender. "Oh, an official visit is that it?" asked shipman Hayes, favoring the official visitor with a baby-stare.
He is always ready to talk with you, this amphibious person; and if he is not the most entertaining of gossips more weather-wise that Old Probabilities, and as full of moving incident as Othello himself then he is not the wintery-haired shipman I used to see a few years ago on the strip of beach just beyond Liberty Bridge, building his drift-wood fire under a great tin boiler, and making it lively for a lot of reluctant lobsters.
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