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Updated: June 7, 2025
I viewed them long enough to satisfy my mind that they were dead, and then with a heart of lead turned away. I crossed to the starboard side, where the deck was comparatively clear, and found the body of a seaman named Abraham Wise near the fore-hatch. This man had probably been stunned and drowned by the sea that filled the deck after I loosed the staysail.
In the Euridiscy we had as fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft `Steady, starboard, my man, you're half a pint off your course; we dropped our anchor in Port Royal, and we thought that there was mischief brewing, for thirty-eight sharks followed the ship into the harbour, and played about us day and night.
Budge strained his eyes, but no fin! The breeze was shifting to the northeast. Jim cast a practised eye about the horizon. "If the wind swings round much farther it'll bring the fog again. See anything, Budge?" "No yes! Up to starboard! Right, Throppy! Keep her as she is!" The fish was swimming at a moderate rate, and the sloop had no trouble in catching up with him.
Even now it looked as though the collision could not be prevented, but the Japanese, seizing the steering-wheel, turned the boat so quickly to starboard that the stern fell away from the bow of the approaching launch. There was no crash, no hard bump; merely a glancing blow so slight that in that calm water it scarcely made the boats careen. Then Orme threw his noose.
The two leaders, however, gradually improved their position. They were nearly matched, in point of sailing; and their captains were evidently making a race of it, hoisting every stitch of canvas they were able to show. By the afternoon they were fully two miles ahead of the ship, which was half a mile on the starboard bow of the brig. The wind died away to nothing, as the sun set.
These last I broke through with a sudden jerk, and then regained the deck by the starboard shrouds. For nothing in the world would I have again ventured, shaken as I was, upon the overhanging port shrouds from which Israel had so lately fallen.
Suddenly its helm flew over, bringing the starboard battery to bear on the fortifications. At 5:16 a.m. the Iowa's forward twelve-inch guns thundered out at the sleeping hills, and for fourteen minutes they poured starboard broadsides on the coast. Meanwhile the Indiana, the New York, and other ships repeated the dose from the rear.
Suddenly, as a slap in the face, the wind struck us, on the starboard quarter, fortunately. "Hard-a-starboard." "Hanl aft port fore staysail sheet," I called. But before she could gather way she was thrown down by the wind like a reed. She was "coming to" instead of "going off," and I tried to get the main storm staysail down but could not make myself heard. She was lying on her broadside.
"At 1 p.m., as we were steaming easily, I happened to be asleep on the poop-deck, when I was suddenly awakened by a shock, succeeded almost immediately by the cry, `The ship's sinking! A hippopotamus had charged the steamer from the bottom, and had smashed several floats off her starboard paddle.
"Mais non," he retorted, annoyed at my dullness to comprehend. "We were saved comprenez-vous? for there, to starboard, lay Su-Tum-Tum as plain as a sheep's nose." "England? Impossible!" I returned. "Mais parfaitement!" he declared, with a hopeless gesture. "Su-Tum-Tum," he reiterated slowly for my benefit. "Never heard of it," I replied.
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