. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. od-bye, fare ye well, good-bye, fare ye well;Hurrah ! my boys, were homeward bound ! The port anchor was quickly hove up, catted andfished, and, while the starboard cable was being hove in,we jumped aloft and loosed the sails. The Chinesewho were lounging about the decks clapped on to thehalliards, and with their assistance the topsail-yardswere walked up to the mastheads in double quick quite enjoyed the fun, and, while the topsails werebeing hoisted, another gang scampered along with thej
. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. od-bye, fare ye well, good-bye, fare ye well;Hurrah ! my boys, were homeward bound ! The port anchor was quickly hove up, catted andfished, and, while the starboard cable was being hove in,we jumped aloft and loosed the sails. The Chinesewho were lounging about the decks clapped on to thehalliards, and with their assistance the topsail-yardswere walked up to the mastheads in double quick quite enjoyed the fun, and, while the topsails werebeing hoisted, another gang scampered along with thejib-halliards, making the hanks-fairly whirr up thestays. THE START. 339 * Hove short, sir ! Up with him ! sang out the captain. Heave, boys, heave, and raise the dead ! yelledMr. Harvey, who was standing between the knight-heads. Round went the capstan, slowly at first, as the pon-derous mass of iron was broken out of its firm bed ; andthen, after a few vigorous heaves, the men ran brisklyround, cheering and shouting, while the pauls rattled arippling accompaniment to their trampling Slowly the ships bows fell off, the head-yards werefilled, and she began to move through the of the Chinamen who had stayed until nowtumbled into their sampans and shoved off. Johnson,the bumboatman, waited until the last, and as he wentoff in his boat he set alight to several joss papers, hisidea being to wish us good luck in the passage toEngland. Then the men who had been helpingus jumped into their boats and gave us three cheers 340 SPUN YARN AND SPINDRIFT. as they dropped astern, and we were fairly underway. The httle Enghsh gunboat that came puffing andpanting up the river a day or two ago fired a gun as wepassed her, and the crews of each ship, as we ghded by,jumped into their fore-rigging and gave us three so, with much dipping of ensigns, cheering andexcitement, we ran out of the anchorage, quickly fol-lowed by the Serica and the Ariel, who also took theirdepa
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