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Being on the weather-beam of la Victoire, as her flag came down, he ordered his own first lieutenant into the larger cutter, and putting half-a-dozen marines, with the proper crew, into the boat, it was soon seen dangling in the air over the cauldron of the ocean; the oars on-end. To lower, let go, and unhook, were the acts of an instant; the oars fell, and the boat was swept away to leeward.
The consequence was, that this ship tacked directly on our weather-beam, and so near us that one might have thrown a biscuit aboard her. But she went round beautifully, scarce losing her way at all; and away she started again, looking her enemies directly in the face. "Now's our time to fill, Miles, and draw ahead. The Speedy will think we've been spoken, and all's right.
The object which was exciting so much interest among the Spanish officers was a schooner broad on our weather-beam, about eight miles distant, and consequently hull-down from the deck.
Indeed, after nearly four months had gone, and we had explored the whole of the Japanese and Chinese coasts, the captain reached the point of deciding to return, when one night the voice of Ned Land was heard calling: "Look out there! The thing we are looking for on our weather-beam!"
The officer of the boat was quick to detect the change that was acting against him, and by easing the sheets of his lug-sails, and keeping the cutter as much off the wind as he could, he was soon within a hundred feet of the ship, running along on her weather-beam.
Next morning, when it was my watch on deck, I heard a voice from the maintopmast head shouting: "A dismasted ship on the weather-beam not four miles away." I sent Esse, who was midshipman of the watch, aloft, and he corroborated Pat Brady's statement. Sending below to call the Captain, I kept the brig away in the direction of the ship. The sea was still running very high.
Fired a blank cartridge, which he disregarded. Continued to overhaul him, and when we had gotten on his weather-beam, distant about half a mile from him, fired a second gun, which speedily brought him to the wind with his maintopsail to the mast.
Two days ago we left Bramble Cay for Cape Possession in New Guinea, with a fine breeze from the North-West, and next morning at daylight saw the land about the Cape on the weather-beam.
"The same; and there's the spot in which we was stowed when they made us out from the brig; and here-away, a cable's length, more or less, the wreck of that Mexican craft must lie." "What is that rising above the water, thereaway, Jack; more on our weather-beam?" "I see what you mean, sir; it looks like a spar. By George! there's two on 'em; and they do seem to be the schooner's masts."
"Ay, he's a bold'un in a calm," said a second. "He's a Jonah, that has slipp'd into the cabin windows!" cried a third; "and, while he stays in the 'Dolphin, luck will keep upon our weather-beam" "Into the sea with him! overboard with the upstart! into the sea with him! where he'll find that a bolder and a better man has gone before him!" shouted a dozen at once; some of whom immediately gave very unequivocal demonstrations of an intention to put their threat in execution.
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