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Updated: June 13, 2025
By and by, still without rising, we were quit of the fog, and the moon swept the hollow beneath us, rescuing solitary scraps and sheets of water and letting them slip again like imprehensible ghosts. Small fiery eyes opened and shut on us; cressets of flame on factory chimneys, more and more frequent. I studied the compass. Our course lay south-by-west. But our whereabouts?
The wet and heavy sails now flapped from the shifting of the wind. "Up with the helm, quarter-master." "Up it is she's off to south-by-west." The wind lulled, the rain came down in a deluge for a minute it was quite calm, and the frigate was on an even keel. "Man the braces. We shall be taken aback directly, depend upon it." The braces were hardly stretched along before this was the case.
Yet it was sufficient to cause the course of the frail steamboat to be altered yet a little more from south-west-by-south to south-by-west to give the breakers a still wider berth. 'I wish we had gone by land, sir; 'twould have been surer play, said Sol to Mountclere, a cat-and-dog friendship having arisen between them. 'Yes, said Mountclere.
Lovell, whom I was relieving, informed me that nothing whatever had been seen or heard during his watch; and that now, by our dead reckoning, we were, as nearly as possible, thirty miles south-by-west of Portland Bill. The skipper was still on deck; he had been up all through the first watch, and announced his intention of keeping the deck until the weather should clear.
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