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. 1906 Excerpt: ...the stern after the boy. The cry of 'man overboard' does not avail to bring a vessel into the wind when running at nearly ten knots before an Atlantic blow. With helm hard down and all hands hardening in the sheets, she will be four hundred yards to leeward in the time that you can say it. So the sweeps and all ...
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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. 1906 Excerpt: ...the stern after the boy. The cry of 'man overboard' does not avail to bring a vessel into the wind when running at nearly ten knots before an Atlantic blow. With helm hard down and all hands hardening in the sheets, she will be four hundred yards to leeward in the time that you can say it. So the sweeps and all available floating stuff which minds accustomed to act impelled overboard after the lost men, were rising and falling, almost lost to sight in the spreading night to windward, by the time St. Michael had brought herself up to meet the seas. The quick eyes of the younger hand saw how far still to windward were those two ST. MICHAEL'S STORY 215 small heads rising, falling, and fighting watery death. Quickly he threw off his clothes, and with the end of a small line in his teeth sprang overboard to join them, and left his four mates to work the boat in time, if possible, over the lost ground. Then came the long struggle in which each simple heart seemed to live a lifetime. While the boy soon had to act rescuer to the old man spent by sickness and encumbered with his vast weight of clothing, the new arrival collected all he could of the floating stuff and fought his way to his fast-drowning shipmates. 'Cheer up, Uncle Dick; hold on, uncle, ' kept saying the boy, 'here she comes. I see Roger's face quite plain, I do.' At length all were alongside, but in the heavy sea it was almost impossible to get the exhausted men on board, and when at length it was accomplished with the aid of a tackle, it was over an hour before Uncle Dick returned to consciousness, and the nearest drop of available stimulant was, Cornish fashion, in Penzance harbour, fifty miles to windward. And thither they had to go for it. That and the like is what St Michael thinks about riding t..
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