Mr Falcon, splice the main-brace, and call the watch.

How's her head, quarter-master ?" "S.W.

by S.Southerly, sir." "Very well; let her go through the water;" and the captain, beckoning to the master to follow him, went down into the cabin.

As our immediate danger was over, I went down into the berth to see if I could get anything for breakfast, where I found O'Brien and two or three more.
"By the powers, it was as nate a thing as ever I saw done," observed O'Brien: "the slightest mistake as to time or management, and at this moment the flatfish would have been dubbing at our ugly carcases.

Peter, you're not fond of flatfish, are you, my boy?
We may thank Heaven and the captain, I can tell you that, my lads; but now, where's the chart, Robinson?
Hand me down the parallel rules and compasses, Peter; they are in the corner of the shelf.