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Updated: August 11, 2024
What have they been doing all these fifty years?" Boston found a sounding-rod in the locker, which he scraped bright with his knife, then, unlaying a strand of the rope for a line, sounded the pump-well. The rod came up dry, but with a slight discoloration on the lower end, which Boston showed to the doctor. "The acids have expended themselves on the iron frames and plates. How thick are they?"
This suggestion relieved Mark's mind of a load of care, and he lent himself to the measures necessary to the continued safety of the vessel, with renewed animation and vigour. The pump-well was once more sounded, and found to be nearly empty.
The swell was so high that we did not dare to come by the wind, and the seas would come in, just about the main chains, meet in board and travel out over her bows in a way to threaten everything that could be moved. We lads were lashed at the pumps, and ordered to keep at work; and to make matters worse, the wheat began to work its way into the pump-well.
Carpenter, lay down your adze and sound the well." The carpenter, who, notwithstanding the uneasiness of the dismasted vessel, was performing his important share of the work, immediately complied with the order. He drew up the rope-yarn, to which an iron rule had been suspended, and lowered down into the pump-well, and perceived that the water was dripping from it.
'Well, said the plotter, as he returned, ticket in hand, 'your attitude is so strange and painful, that I scarce know if I should ask you to shake hands. 'As a man, no, replied Somerset; 'but I have no objection to shake hands with you, as I might with a pump-well that ran poison or bell-fire.
Oswald looked at the compass in the binnacle spoke a few words to the man at the helm gave one or two terrible kicks in the ribs to some of the men who were caulking sounded the pump-well put a fresh quid of tobacco into his cheek, and then proceeded to examine the heavens above.
Should I throw it overboard; should I stuff it down the pump-well, or slip it into the ship's coppers, that it might re-appear when the pea-soup was baled out or dinner; or should I put it into the manger forward, where the pigs were?
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