south-half-south

Updated: June 23, 2025

If this 'Skimmer of the Seas' comes out to give us another chase in rough water, he is by no means as good a judge of the difference between a large and a small vessel as I had thought him and I confess, Sir, I should have more hopes of taking him, were the woman under his bowsprit fairly burnt." "The offing is clear!" "That it is, with a show of the wind holding here at south-half-south.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas