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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I got a berth as second mate on a wind-jammer sailing to Europe, and as the country wasn't healthy for me since I'd looted the green mummy, I took it abroad and yanked it to Paris, where I sold it for a couple of hundred pounds. With that, I changed my name and had a high old time. I never heard of the blamed thing again until the Professor here turned up with Mr.
Your old man's phrase, 'United States of the World, kind of caught on with the crowd: they've kind of wakened up! Funny thing, the way that happens to a crowd! Your professional wind-jammer can orate till he busts his head, he never knows it has happened till the crowd has got away from him!
"Cows scarce in your job?" "A bit," was the unruffled reply. "We've just brought a Norwegian wind-jammer in from the South of Iceland...." He indicated with a nod the young gentleman in the corner, who was removing traces of jam from his left cheek. "I'm bringing the armed guard back to our base." The Reserve man drank his tea after the manner of deep-sea sailor-men.
Fraser drew himself up with injured dignity, then spoke in dramatic accents. "I worked my way!" He showed the whites of his eyes, tragically. "You look like you'd walked in from Kansas," George declared. "Yes, sir, I worked! Me!" "How? Where?" "On that bloody wind-jammer." He stretched a long arm toward the harbor in a theatrical gesture. "But the police?" queried Boyd. "Oh, I squared them easy.
Landsmen generally think that most watches aboard a wind-jammer are passed in yarns and smoking. But this is far from being the case.
"That ship yonder may not get out of here for a week." The chart now showed that they were far out of the track of all ships and on a lonely sea, so that the becalmed wind-jammer had probably been driven off her course in the same hurricane that menaced them and was likely to be a long time before she got out of her melancholy predicament.
At the mill-dock a big steam schooner and a wind-jammer lay; in the lee of the piles of lumber, sailors and long-shoremen, tallymen and timekeeper lounged, enjoying the brief period of the noon hour still theirs before the driving mates of the lumber-vessels should turn them to on the job once more.
This is midwinter, and we are going from east to west. Davis' room will be awash for weeks. It will never be dry. A strong healthy man confined in it could well die of the hardship. And Davis is far from well. In short, sir, I know his condition, and he is in a shocking state. Surgeons might prolong his life, but here in a wind-jammer it is shortened very rapidly. I have seen many men die at sea.
"Wot about me wakin' up all of a tremble aboard o' the old Nancy Lee aboard of a blasted wind-jammer! Me a fireman! Wot about it? Wasn't that Shanghaiin'? Blighter! An' not a 'oat' in me pocket not a 'bean'! Broke to the wide an' aboard of a old wind-jammer wot was a coffin-ship a coffin-ship she was; an' 'er old man was the devil's father-in-law. Ho! lies! I don't think!"
The captain of the Noa-Noa came and stood beside me as we made her out more plainly, and fetching the glasses, he glanced at her, started, and said in some surprise: "She 's signaling us she wants to send a boat to us. That's the first time in thirty years in this line I have ever had such a request from a wind-jammer. She left her slant to cross our path."
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