Well, there ain't nothing to do at present, but just hold on and get to feel your legs.

Don't you try to go across the deck, if the hands are called, until you are accustomed to it; else you will get a fall, to a certainty." "Is the gale nearly over, Bill ?" "Why, it's quite over.

Don't you see that for yourself ?" "It seems to me to blow hard now." "Blow hard! Why, there ain't a capful of wind.

It was blowing pretty hard yesterday, if you like, but not worth calling a gale.
If you are lucky, you are like to know what a gale is, when we get south of the Cape.

The wind does blow there, when it has made up its mind.