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Updated: June 10, 2025
"I do believe that the wind has got round here to the north-east," said Roswell, as he paced the quarter-deck with Daggett, still holding in his hand the well wiped and dried sounding-rod, in readiness for another trial. "That last puff was right in our teeth!" "Not in our teeth, Gar'ner; no, not in my teeth," answered Daggett, "whatever it maybe in your'n.
Stop! there was one boat left amidships, a launch capable of holding about forty persons in a pinch, and still seaworthy; it was, by the captain's order, promptly made as serviceable as possible in view of the probable emergency. About four o'clock in the afternoon the carpenter came aft with the sounding-rod of the well in his hand.
Ah! a lucky thought," continued I, as I saw the sounding-rod and line attached to the fife-rail, "let us see what water the craft has in her."
What have they been doing all these fifty years?" Boston found a sounding-rod in the locker, which he scraped bright with his knife, then, unlaying a strand of the rope for a line, sounded the pump-well. The rod came up dry, but with a slight discoloration on the lower end, which Boston showed to the doctor. "The acids have expended themselves on the iron frames and plates. How thick are they?"
But tattoo, describing the cutting away of the skin and dyeing of the flesh so common among sailors, is a word borrowed from the South Sea Islanders. Sound meaning "a noise," and sound meaning "to find out the depth of," as in sounding-rod, are two quite different words.
The attention of both had at the same moment been arrested by something peculiar in the motion of the brig. "Sound the pumps," observed the skipper, apparently addressing the moon, which at that moment gleamed brightly forth from behind a heavy cloud. The mate took the sounding-rod, and, first of all drying it and the line carefully, dropped it down the pump-well.
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