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This was hard work for the prize crew, for the few Frenchmen left on board, though they did not refuse to go to the pumps, worked listlessly, and very soon knocked off, declaring that they could work no more. The British seamen had therefore to work away until they could stand no longer.
And when his more intimate friends asked how he could be on intimate terms with seamen and tax-gatherers, Socrates himself answered, "They are also men!" At the philosopher's side, and when he sat, standing behind him, was always to be seen a youth, whose broad brow attracted attention.
"'Tis the creatur's way, sir," said the cockswain; "you know they need the air in their nostrils, when they run, the same as a man; but lay hold, boys, and let's haul up to him." The seamen now seized the whale-line, and slowly drew their boat to within a few feet of the tail of the fish, whose progress became sensibly less rapid, as he grew weak with the loss of blood.
The Captain looked from Chase to Colbrook, and from Colbrook to Chase one the foremost man among the seamen, the other the foremost man among the soldiers then all round upon the packed and silent crew, and, as if a slave to Fate, though supreme Captain of a frigate, he turned to the First Lieutenant, made some indifferent remark, and saying to me you may go, sauntered aft into his cabin; while I, who, in the desperation of my soul, had but just escaped being a murderer and a suicide, almost burst into tears of thanks-giving where I stood.
So that he proved there was, in fact, not only danger and difficulty, but absolute impossibility, opposed to the plan which the gentleman wished to follow. In the meanwhile, the four seamen, who were at the oars, laboured away incessantly, but with very slow and difficult efforts.
This, as it was going up, caught the eye of one of the seamen in the boat, who cried out, "There goes the ensign up to the peak at last." "Where?" exclaimed the major, pulling out his telescope; "Yes, by heavens! there it is and there then must be the cave."
According to the negro, Tawney, when the Captain of the Macedonian seeing that the Neversink had his vessel completely in her power gave the word to strike the flag, one of his officers, a man hated by the seamen for his tyranny, howled out the most terrific remonstrances, swearing that, for his part, he would not give up, but was for sinking the Macedonian alongside the enemy.
He has a design, I believe, to sell you whatever you may want in the way of fresh provisions." "Certainly. The steward can go ashore, too, and do business with him, and his boat will bring the others back. Here Hoskings! Arnott!" Captain Whitaker called to a couple of seamen, and sent a third off to summon the steward.
I had great confidence in Andrew's discretion, and I knew both him and David to be experienced seamen, but neither of them knew anything about navigation indeed David could neither read nor write; and though we might possibly be able to find our way through the ice, when once we got clear we might lose it, and be wrecked on a worse coast than the one we were desirous of quitting.
The warm way in which he received the enemy whenever they appeared kept them in check, and sometimes, for several minutes together, it was hoped that they had retreated, but again and again they came on, though they must have suffered severely. Many more seamen would have been hit had not Jack made them lie down and only rise on their knees to fire.
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