Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . but we were forced tocarry on at all risks, that we might claw off seas broke over as we lay in the trough, delugingus with water from the forecastle, aft, to the binnacles ;and very often as the ship descended with a plunge, itwas with such force that I really thought she woulddivide in half with the violence of the shock. Doublebreechings were rove on the guns, and they were furthersecured
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . but we were forced tocarry on at all risks, that we might claw off seas broke over as we lay in the trough, delugingus with water from the forecastle, aft, to the binnacles ;and very often as the ship descended with a plunge, itwas with such force that I really thought she woulddivide in half with the violence of the shock. Doublebreechings were rove on the guns, and they were furthersecured with tackles, and strong cleats nailed behind thetrunnions, for we heeled over so much when we lurchedthat the guns were wholly supported by the breechingsand tackles, and had one of them broken loose, it musthave burst right through the lee side of the ship, and shemust have foundered. The captain, first lieutenant, andmost of the officers remained on deck during the wholeof the night; and really, what with the howling of thewind, the violence of the rain, the washing of the waterabout the decks, the working of the chain pumps, andthe creaking and groaning of the timbers, I thought that. FREDERICKFrom an Engraving in we must inevitably have been lost; and I said myprayers at least a dozen times during the night, for Ifelt it impossible to go to bed. I had often wished, outof curiosity, that I might be in a gale of wind, but Ilittle thought it was to have been a scene of this descrip-tion, or anytliing half so dreadful. What made it moreappalling was that we were on a lee shore, and the con-sultations of the captain and officers, and the eagernesswith which they looked out for daylight, told us thatwe had other dangers to encounter l)esides the storm. At last the morningbroke, and the look-out man upon thegangway called out, Land on the leebeam. I perceivedthe master dash hisfist against the ham-mock rails, as if withvexation, and walkaway without sayinga word, and lookingvery
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