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aloft anchor ashore Ayacucho beach began berth blow boat Boston bows braced breeze brig brought California called Cape Horn captain cargo chief mate clothes coast crew dark deck dressed duty everything flog fore forecastle furled gale gave give halyards hands harbour hauled head heard heave hermaphrodite brig hide-house hides hoisted hove knew Lagoda land larboard leeward let go light light sails looking mast miles Monterey morning nearly never night o'clock oakum oars officer Pilgrim port pulled ready reefed rigging rope round royal royal mast running sailors San Diego San Pedro Sandwich Islanders Santa Barbara second mate sent ship shore soon south-easter standing starboard staysail stern stood studding sails studding-sail Sunday sundown thing told took top-gallant topsails trysail turned vessel voyage walked watch weather wind windlass windward yards
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Page 313 - Its great size — for it must have been from two to three miles in circumference, and several hundred feet in height; its slow motion, as its base rose and sank in the water, and its high points nodded against the clouds; the dashing of the waves upon it, which, breaking high with foam, lined its base with a white crust; and the thundering sound of the cracking of the mass, and the breaking and tumbling down of huge pieces, together with its nearness and approach, which added a slight element of...
Page 139 - it is not that that I flog you for; I flog you for your interference— for asking questions.
Page 193 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 307 - ... loose it again, I had a fine view of the scene. From where I stood, the two vessels seemed nothing but spars and sails, while their narrow decks, far below, slanting over by the force of the wind aloft, appeared hardly capable of supporting the great fabrics raised upon them. The California was to windward of us, and had every advantage; yet, while the breeze was stiff we held our own. As soon as it began to slacken she ranged a little ahead, and the order was given to loose the royals. In an...
Page 193 - Down this height we pitched the hides, throwing them as far out into the air as we could; and as they were all large, stiff, and doubled, like the cover of a book, the wind took them, and they swayed and eddied about, plunging and rising in the air, like a kite when it has broken its string.
Page 138 - Will you ever give me any more of your jaw ? " The man writhed with pain, but said not a word. Three times more. This was too much, and he muttered something which I could not hear ; this brought as many more as the man could stand, when the captain ordered him to be cut down, and go forward. " Now for you," said the captain, making up to John and taking his irons off.
Page 328 - And when she leaped over the seas, and almost out of the water, and trembled to her very keel, the spars and masts snapping and creaking, "There she goes! There she goes — handsomely! As long as she cracks she holds!" — while we stood with the rigging laid down fair for letting go, and ready to take in sail and clear away, if anything went. At four bells we hove the log, and she was going eleven knots fairly; and had it not been for the sea from aft which sent the...
Page 2 - I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Neptune himself, I was, no doubt, known for a landsman by every one on board as soon as I hove in sight.
Page 317 - ... to the eastward; for the captain was determined to get round if perseverance could do it; and the third time, he said, never failed. With a fair wind we soon ran clear of the field-ice, and by noon had only the stray islands floating far and near upon the ocean. The sun was out bright, the sea of a deep blue, fringed with the white foam of the waves which ran high before a strong south-wester; our solitary ship tore on through the...