Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 11, 2025
The first-mate was right, for all at once there was a loud roar, and a charge of stones, it seemed, came hurtling over their heads, and flew up, to break down twigs and huge leaves from the trees, while, as the smoke rose, the Malays leaped overboard on either side, yelling excitedly, splashing in the water, and then began to wade ashore.
"Hang it all!" cried the first-mate; "it isn't a question of amount of cargo to unstow, but of time before we get at the miserable wretch. Now, what right has a man to come and hide down here, and upset the whole cargo and crew!" "My dear Gregory," cried the second-mate, "do let's begin somewhere." "Yes, but where, my lad where? Listen again. There, it's further in ever so much."
"I suppose it can't be hotter than this, Mr Gregory, can it?" asked Mark, soon after noontide on the second day of the calm. "Hotter than this?" said the first-mate with an assumed look of astonishment. "Do you hear him, Morgan? He calls it hot!" "I say, captain," said the major, "how long's this calm going to last?" "Impossible to say," said the captain.
The former individual then went to the big opening in the deck: "Below! Morgan!" he shouted. "Ahoy!" came from somewhere in the interior of the great vessel, and directly after a pleasant, manly, brown face appeared above the steps. "Take charge; I'm going to have some tea." "All right! Who's this?" "Skipper's cub," said the first-mate shortly. "Here, boy, come along."
"Let me go back. They must be killed." "Nay, nay, my lad, it's all right," whispered the first-mate; "they're coming down." It was a fact, for the major slid quickly down the cotton rope, and the captain could be seen leaning out ready to follow, as he did directly and took his place in the boat.
Such was Mr Berecroft; and we have little further to add, except that he was very superior to the generality of masters of merchant vessels. His family, it was reported, were strict quakers. Jackson, the first-mate, was a bull-headed, sandy-haired Northumbrian; as we before stated, a relation of the owner's, or he never would have been permitted to remain in the ship.
As I had determined to shorten sail, however, we now set about it in earnest, and with all the precautions exacted by the circumstances. Everybody that could be mustered, was placed at the clew-lines and buntlines, with strict orders to do his best at the proper moments. The first-mate went to the tack, and the second to the sheet. I was to take in the sail myself.
Government ought to interfere and put a stop to it." "But, my dear Gregory, hadn't we better get the poor wretch out, and settle the government interference afterwards?" "These men make me half mad," cried the first-mate. "Where do you suppose he is?" "A long way down, I'm afraid." "And we are behind with our lading.
The master, Captain Sandford, having no first-mate, gladly agreed, when he heard Peter Gray's character, to give him the berth. "I am thankful to have my first-officer a Christian," he said; "for I have too often been defeated in my attempts to bring my crew to the truth by the indifference or hostility of my mates.
Peter had made a successful voyage, and found himself the possessor of more money than he had ever expected to receive. As soon as the ship was safe in dock, and he had performed all the duties required of him, he left her in charge of the first-mate and proceeded to pay the promised visit to his late captain's widow and daughter. He found them living in a neat little cottage near London.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking