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Updated: September 17, 2025
"I hope you won't chuck me overboard for it, though, as they did him!" replied Mr Stormcock, good-humouredly. "Goodness knows, I don't wish any harm to the old ship, or anyone in her! It isn't likely I would; but, look at those clouds there away to win'ard and judge for yourself what sort of weather we're likely to have before nightfall!"
In about a minute he give a yell that made Tom an' me jump. `A sail! he hollered. `A sail! An' you may bet your life, young man, that 'twasn't more'n half a second afore us two had scuffled out from under that canvas, an' was standin' by Andy. `There she is! he shouted, `not a mile to win'ard. I give one look, an' then I sings out: `'Tain't a sail! It's a flag of distress!
"Ship my rullocks, you young rascal! Don't you sit there grinning and winking at me, like a Cheshire cat eatin' green cheese, thinkin' no doubt you've got to win'ard of me; though, I'm blest, sonny, if I didn't nearly slip my painter then!"
"Ba-ack that jib to win'ard! Ba-ck it, you swabs!" The Karluk came about more smartly this time, swinging on the upheaval of a wave and rushing off with ever-increasing speed. Lund bent over him, asking him with a note that Rainey, for all his exhaustion, interpreted as one of real anxiety: "How is it with you, matey? Did ye git lunged up?"
We sailed together, till night, steering for Juan Fernandez; then a fog came on and we lost sight of the cutter, and I altered my mind and judged it best to beat to win'ard, and get into the track of ships.
"Why the deuce didn't you tell me all that before, my dear Vernon, instead of backing and filling like a Dutch galliot beating to win'ard?" "I I " hesitated my father, who had refrained from telling him before because he hated asking a favour of anyone whom he regarded in the light of a friend. "I I didn't like to trouble you, sir." "Bosh, Vernon!
Providentially, my prophetic soul induces me to leave the top of the ladder and go forward "run to win'ard," as Captain Murray would say for within two minutes the Captain and Engineer are up the ladder as if they had been blown up by the boilers bursting, and go as one man for the brandy bottle; and they wanted it if ever man did; for remember that hippo had been dead and in the warm river-water for more than a week.
`Old Hankey Pankey, though, as he was called on the lower deck sailors having always a nickname for their officers, whether they like them or dislike them possessed the rare art of managing those under his command to such a degree that he would have turned out a likely enough crew from much worse material; while he `got to win'ard' of the engineers so cleverly that they never grumbled at any orders he gave unlike those gentry in general thus enabling us to pile on steam and make the passage out from England in far less time than we expected, there being no complaints from the stokehold of `leaking tubes' and `priming' boilers necessitating our having to `slow down.
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