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Updated: May 28, 2025
While doing this, of course, I had another practical lesson in seamanship, learning all about "double luffs" and "toggles," "salvagee strops" and "Burton tackles," and all the rest of such gear, whose name is legion. But I must go on now to a more important incident.
The runners should be shod with spring steel, one inch wide; and a second runner, two and a half inches wide, may be put between the lower one and the wood, to hold up the sledge when the snow is soft. Thus one has on both a skate and a snowshoe at once. The dogs' traces should be of skin and fastened with toggles or buttons to the bowline.
They were loaded on the sloop, dory, and pea-pod, taken out, and dropped overboard around the island, brown bottles, of which there was a generous supply in the shed, being fastened to the warps for "toggles," to hold them off the bottom, so that they might not catch on the rocks. By five all the traps were set.
"There were four old United States cavalry horses among our captive band of mustangs, gray with age and worthless no telling where they came from. We clamped a mule shoe over the pasterns of the younger horses, tied toggles to the others, and the next morning set out on our return to the settlements." Under his promise the old ranchero had the camp astir over an hour before dawn.
The others said again: "The tow-line which Qasiagssaq was using to-day was furnished with toggles of pure narwhal tusk." Later in the evening, Qasiagssaq heard a voice calling in at the window: "You, Qasiagssaq, I have come to ask if you will give back that tow-line." Qasiagssaq sprang up and said: "Here it is; you may take it back now."
Two hands went to each of the halliards, while, as the sail rose, Tom Virtue fastened the toggles round the mast. "All ready, Watkins?" "All ready, sir." "Slack off the weather foresheet, then, and haul aft the leeward. Slack out the mizzen sheet a little, Jack. That's it; now she's off again, like a duck."
These toggles are very useful about small boats, as they may be used as stops for furling sails, for slings around gaffs or spars, for hoisting, and in a variety of other ways which will at once suggest themselves to the boating man.
"Let go!" yelled George, as he felt the boat take the water, and prompt at the word the two men who were stationed at the tackles drew the well- greased toggles, releasing the boat, oars were thrown out, and away dashed the boat right down to leeward, heading to pass under the stern of the wreck and come up in the comparatively sheltered water under her lee.
It seemed as if he would never have a chance to speak to Jem about what had passed; but at last Ramsden went below, and after a little inquiry Don learned that Jem was aloft in the foretop, helping a couple more men at repairing some of the toggles and reef points of a sail.
He leaped ashore and crashed through the intervening underbrush in great bounds, closely followed by the light-footed Jeanne. They gained the top, and while rushing along the rollways could hear Moncrossen roaring his orders could catch the words that foamed from his lips amid volleys of crashing oaths. "Cut them toggles! Let 'em go! Let 'em go! Damn you! Foul that drive!
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