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Updated: June 17, 2025
Now was the time to clap on the blister, but he repeatedly tore it off, so that at length we had to give it up for an impracticable job; and Tailtackle, whom I had called from his pallet, where he had gone to lie down for an hour, placed the caustico, as the Spaniards call it, at the side of the bed.
"It is useless," said I, springing out of bed, and sinking up to my knees in water. "Bring a light, Tailtackle, one of the planks must have started, and as the tide is rising, get out the boats, and put the wounded into them. Don't be alarmed men, the vessel is aground, and as it is nearly high tide, there is no danger."
All the rest of the crew were armed in a similar fashion; the small arm men with muskets in their hands, and the rest at quarters at the guns; while the pikes were cast loose from the spars round which they had been stopped, with tubs of wadding, and boxes of grape, all ready ranged, and every thing clear for action. "Mr Tailtackle" said I, "you are gunner here, and should be in the magazine.
"Very well, can we venture to lumber our kind friends with this giant, Mr Cringle, and can we really leave the ship without him?" Little Reefy was now all alive. "Tailtackle, go on board say we shall be back to dinner the day after tomorrow," said the Captain. We now made ready for the start, and certainly the cavalcade was rather a remarkable one.
"Scarfemwell," said I to the gunner, "go forward to the long gun; Tailtackle, I've no great liking for that chap, open the magazine."
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