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Then he got into the boat again, taking a bit of strong line with him, a couple of fathoms long, or a little less. Stooping down he slipped the line under the bags of ballast and made a timber-hitch with the end, hauling it well taut. With the other end he made a bowline round the thwart on which he was sitting, and on which he must sit to pull the bow oar in the evening.
If you have anything to do with horses or boats you must know how to make the proper ties for hitching the horse to a post, or a boat to a tree, stump, or anything else that is handy. This answers for a temporary, but not a secure, fastening. =Timber-Hitch= Pass the rope around an object, take a half-hitch around the rope, and pass the short end once more between the rope and the object.
Now pass three turns of twine like a timber-hitch tightly around the part where the nettles separate and fasten the twine, and while passing this "warp" lay the nettles backward and forward with each turn. The ends are now whipped with twine or yarn and finally "snaked," which is done by taking the end under and over the outer turns of the seizing alternately.
"Eh what a runnin' bowline a timber-hitch? No, no," he yelled, as he read the captain's face. "You can't do it. The men " "Make a hangman's knot in the end of the rope," thundered the captain, his pistol at Tom's ear. With a face like that of a death's-head he tied the knot. "Pass it round your neck and draw it tight."
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