The book On the Ebb a Few Log Lines From An Old Salt was written by author Charles F Hotchkiss Here you can read free online of On the Ebb a Few Log Lines From An Old Salt book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is On the Ebb a Few Log Lines From An Old Salt a good or bad book?
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I saw Captain Peter as she righted, making fast the stay-sail halyards, up to his neck in water, and with his right hand giving motion for three cheers, though I doubt that he heard A VOYAGE UP THE MEDITERRANEAN. 79 them himself. As she came on to her keel the boy met her with her helm, and off she went a living, breathing thing. The Captain came aft, without any visible excite ment, got the yards square, and as he stepped on to the quarter-deck, with a look of withering scorn, in a loud voice,... said : " Try the pumps, you cowards ; and go below till I call you !" Agreeably to his prophecy, the sea, as though having gained new energies, rolled and threshed worse than ever. We took in the storm stay sail, set the close-reefed main top-sail, and the good man with the boy "scud" her "trick a trick" till the gale abated. " Honor to whom honor is due. " He was ready for any emergency. Had he neglected " dead lights, " " fore scuttle, " and "upper yards, " she never would have righted, for raisins grow heavy when water-soaked, and a vessel, under all the circumstances, could not have righted by cutting away her masts.
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