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Updated: May 5, 2025
Reaching the little cave at last she would have had me set her down; but I bade her lie still, and getting to my knees within the cave I laid her upon her ferny bed, whereat she uttered a little cry of pleasure. "Why, Martin," says she, snugging down, "here is wondrous soft bed and fragrant."
And mingling with the chirp of insects and the fitful cries of dreaming monkeys came a gnawing and rasping of wood that seemed to echo throughout the silent Barang. "What's that?" growled Blunt, sitting up and listening. "Rats," returned Rolfe sleepily. "Th' darned old wagon's alive with 'em." "Them's proper rats, I bet," rejoined Bill, snugging down again. "Reglar bandicoots, sounds like."
And to begin, captain, I will jist observe, as before, that if you don't take my offer, and close with me hard and fast, you will roast at an Injun stake jist as sartainly as you are now snugging by an Injun fire; you will, d n me, there's no two ways about it!" "The terms, the terms?" cried Roland, eagerly: "name them; I will not dispute them." But the renegade was in no such hurry.
The "snugging down" process occupied us until nearly four bells of the forenoon watch; but when at length it was completed we felt that we were prepared to face anything, our royal and topgallant-mast and all our yards being down on deck, the fore and main-topmasts and the jib-boom housed, the great mainsail snugly stowed and the heavy boom securely supported in a strong crutch, and the ship under fore and main storm staysails only.
I wished he were with us. We were in the Golden Gate now, that magnificent opening in the California shores, riven in the eternal conflict of land and water, and the rending of which made the bay of San Francisco the mightiest harbor of America. Before our bows lay the immense expanse of the mysterious Pacific. The second officer was directing sailors who were snugging down the decks.
Flying the house-flags of private owners, the East Indiamen and China tea ships were still built and manned like frigates, slow, comfortable, snugging down for the night under reduced sail. There was no competition to arouse them until the last barrier of the Navigation Laws was let down and they had to meet the Yankee clipper with the tea trade as the huge stake.
"We might as well be snugging down as doing nothing; and perhaps the sight will put some life into the movements of those lazy rascals yonder," pointing with his cigar as he spoke towards the boats. "Possibly," I agreed.
I waited until this job of snugging the sail was finished, and then made haste to get off the forecastle, where the seas flew so continuously and heavily that had I not kept a sharp lookout, I should several times have been knocked overboard. Partly out of curiosity and partly with a wish to hearten the men, I looked into the forecastle before going aft.
I gazed enchanted, but cold gray masses, drifting like dust on a wind-swept plain, began to shut out the light, forerunners of the coming storm I had been so anxiously watching. I made haste to gather as much wood as possible, snugging it as a shelter around my bed.
The Lamb knows quite well which are the poetry animals. 'I'm a baby bear! said the Lamb, snugging down; and Anthea began: 'I love my little baby bear, I love his nose and toes and hair; I like to hold him in my arm, And keep him VERY safe and warm. And when she said 'very', of course there was a real bear's hug.
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