When you see a hurricane, my lad, you will know it, even if the name is not lettered on the starn." "Then I suppose there is no actual danger in a gale like this, although it does not look very inviting." "Danger! I don't know about that.

In a good seaworthy vessel a man is as SAFE in a gale of wind as if he was cooped up in a grog-selling boarding house on shore; and a thousand times better off in other respects.

But this miserable old craft is strained in every timber, and takes in more water through the seams in her bottom than 'the combers' toss on her decks.

If her bottom does not drop out some of these odd times, and leave us in the lurch, we may think ourselves lucky." After uttering these consolatory remarks, accompanied with a significant shrug, he resumed his labors at the pump.
The wind blew with violence through the day, and the leak kept increasing.

There is probably no exercise more fatiguing than "pumping ship," as practised with the clumsy, awkward contrivances called PUMPS, which were generally in use among the merchant vessels of those days.