Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 4, 2025
"What a gaff topsail she has got my eye! and a ringtail with more cloths in it than our squaresail and the breeze comes down stronger and stronger!" All this while I looked out equally excited, but with a very different interest.
He had proved himself on the alert, guided as he had been by the signs of the weather, and the great squaresail had hardly been lowered, the boats made snug, and a reef or two taken in the mainsail, before the wind came with a sharp gust, and the next minute the Kestrel was sending the water surging behind her in a long track of foam.
"Port the helm! Fire!" he shouted directly afterwards. The gun was well aimed, for the shot went through the schooner's large squaresail. The ship was again kept on her course, when the gun was hauled in and reloaded. "Stand by to fire again, and this time pitch it into her. All ready there, forward?" "Ay, ay, sir!"
When it was completed it made a fairly sized squaresail, which could always be used during light winds. The captain's boat had disappeared from view, when Jessop the second steward beckoned to Harvey to come to him. "Ask the young lady to go for'ard, mister, will you?" he said, turning his haggard eyes upon the trader's face. "I feel as 'ow I'm goin', an' I said I would make a clean breast of it.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking