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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Stop that hole in the bottom with your foot, will you?" The boat was water-logged and filling fast. The water was already over the Gentleman's spurs. Down on his knees the boy baled for his life. Behind him he heard a word of command: then the splash of oars, and the regular thump of rowlocks. The privateer's boat was away a ten- oared galley from the sound of her, and they were driving her.
W., observed a vessel with a signal of distress flying. Made towards her, when she proved to be the barque 'Carleton, water-logged. The captain and crew asked to be taken off. Hove to, and received them on board, consisting of thirteen men: and their ship was abandoned. We then proceeded on our course, the crew of the abandoned vessel assisting all they could to keep my ship afloat.
During one of these lulls Boston had examined the boat, towing half out of water, and concluded that a short painter was best with a water-logged boat, had reinforced it with a few turns of his rope from forward. In the three days they had sighted no craft except such as their own helpless hove-to or scudding. Boston had judged rightly in regard to the wind.
I succeeded in arousing him; but it was necessary that he should be made to comprehend the difficulties of our situation, that our craft, water-logged as it were, would float forever where she was, for all anybody could say to the contrary, until forced down by the power of the engine alone to lower and life-giving atmospheric planes. To get him to understand this was not so easy.
Her expression, while marked enough, threw no clear light. Cope took the entire onus on himself. "Of course no man would choose to be ridiculous still less to stay so. Do, please, let me keep on dry land; I'm beginning to feel water-logged." He shifted his ground. "Why do you try to make it seem that I don't care to talk with you?" "Because you don't. Haven't I noticed it?" "I haven't.
Weakened with sickness and soaked to the skin, we stumbled through black darkness along the track to Kruisstraat three miles of slippery mud and water-logged shell holes only to find that our bivouac field was flooded, and we must march back to Ouderdom and spend the night in the huts, five miles further west.
When peace brought the promise of better things, the railroads were there to take advantage of it. From every side they were pushing their way into New Orleans, building roadways across the "trembling prairies," and crossing the water-logged country about the Rigolets on long trestles. They penetrated the cotton country and the mineral country.
Although completely water-logged, yet, as her masts had gone by the board, she rose, after a minute, heavily from the sea, and, staggering awhile beneath the immense pressure of the tempest, finally righted. By what miracle I escaped destruction, it is impossible to say. Stunned by the shock of the water, I found myself, upon recovery, jammed in between the stern-post and rudder.
Frequently, I have watched the building of their lodges. A foundation of water-logged poles and sticks is laid upon the lake or river bottom, next mud and stones are added, then another lot of branches, thus the structure rises in a fairly solid mound until its dome-like top reaches the desired height above the water-line.
Every blade, twig, bracken-frond, and hoof-print carried water, and the air was filled with the noise of rushing ditches and field-drains, all delivering to the brook below. A week's November rain on water-logged land had gorged her to full flood, and she proclaimed it aloud.
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