Midshipman Farragut . The bulwarks of the cruiser were crowded withheads, and in the foremast shrouds a dark knot ofmen were waiting. Suddenly a tall man with a trumpet leaned out fromthe quarter-deck. Albatross, there! are our men on board ofyou ? David had Captain Peterss trumpet to his lips ; ithid half his face. All right, sir! All on board I he called you the people of this ship? Yes, safe and sound, was the answer. A cheer broke out from the listening crews. I knowed it as soon as I saw Billys phiz, saidCaptain Peters, cutting off a huge quid of tobacco. By this time the two
Midshipman Farragut . The bulwarks of the cruiser were crowded withheads, and in the foremast shrouds a dark knot ofmen were waiting. Suddenly a tall man with a trumpet leaned out fromthe quarter-deck. Albatross, there! are our men on board ofyou ? David had Captain Peterss trumpet to his lips ; ithid half his face. All right, sir! All on board I he called you the people of this ship? Yes, safe and sound, was the answer. A cheer broke out from the listening crews. I knowed it as soon as I saw Billys phiz, saidCaptain Peters, cutting off a huge quid of tobacco. By this time the two vessels were abreast of oneanother, and a great broad-shouldered man on the Essex,, forecastle lifted his elbows from the rail. His roundface was almost twice the expanse of an ordinary per-sons, and, as if to heighten the effect, it was surroundedby bushy whiskers the color of a golden pumpkin forall the world. He opened his lips and his voice crossed the widespace as if he were only a few feet away. Even Kings-. w AN EXCHANGE OF CREWS. 83 burjs would have sounded like a piping child besidehim. Oh, Capn Cy, he said, did ye get a wettn ?We captured this ere craft. WhatU we do withher? A roar of laughter broke out in which David Peters at his elbow chuckled and whispered : They say that Billy was going out to sea to begone two years, and when they were a mile offshorehe hallooed back and asked a girl to marry him. Shewaved a pocket handkerchief, and when he came backthey was married. David laughed again. The land ahead was being rapidly raised, and nowboth ships broke out their light sails. It became a raceto seek the anchorage. The masts of Commodore Por-ters fieet could be seen, and the familiar peaks of Nuka-hiva towered up against the sky. The Essex, Jr., slowly drew ahead, however, andentered the harbor first by only a few cables lengths. In the course of the explanations that followed, therather amusing fact was developed that the Albatrosssboats met th
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