This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...and foretop-mast stay-sail. The wind now began to haul more to the southward, and a tremendous sea was getting up. By midnight it was blowing a very heavy gale, and promising to be worse, and we hauled down the foretop-mast stay-sail, nearly losing two men in the effort to stow it. Being very deeply laden, we labored a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...and foretop-mast stay-sail. The wind now began to haul more to the southward, and a tremendous sea was getting up. By midnight it was blowing a very heavy gale, and promising to be worse, and we hauled down the foretop-mast stay-sail, nearly losing two men in the effort to stow it. Being very deeply laden, we labored a good deal during the night, and commenced making water, so that the pumps had to be kept going most of the time. By the time day broke the sea was heavier than ever, making clean breaches, at times, on board of us; and we now commenced heaving the boxes of sugar overboard to lighten her, passing them up the cabin companionway, and watching sharp to close the slide whenever a larger sea than usual came on board. While engaged at this work one monster boarded us, smashing our boats and bruising some of us, but, fortunately, not seriously. We had hardly got to work again when another sea came, and took about everything movable oft the deck. Worst of all, it tore off the tarpaulin from the main-hatch, and smashed in the hatch itself. Fortunately, a bolt of heavy canvas was in the deckhouse, and, hammer and nails being at hand, we managed to secure the hatch pretty well with this. But the leaks continued to increase, and two hands were now constantly at the pumps, while the rest were at work getting the cargo out. The sea was by this time fearful to look at. The wind continued to haul gradually round by south to west and north of west. Our furled top-gallant sails were blown from the gaskets, and it was impossible for any one to go aloft to secure them, so they blew away, and our fore-sail and foretop-sail soon followed them. All this time the leaks were increasing, and sometimes it was impossible to stand at the pnmps, as the waist would fill wit...
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