Sadly, indeed, she looked with mizzen mast gone, the main mast shortened to the cap, and all the upper spars and rigging of the fore mast gone.

She was, however, making good weather of it, for her hold was now so dry that the pumps were worked only on alternate hours, and the relief afforded by the loss of all her top hamper was very great.
For a week the Paramatta ran before the gale.

At the end of the fourth day its force somewhat abated, but it still blew much too hard for anything to be done towards getting up fresh spars; while the lost mizzen rendered it impossible for them to bring her up into the wind.
"It's bitterly cold, Bill," Reuben said.

"Its been getting colder every day, but this morning it is really bitter." "And no wonder, lad, seeing that we have been racing south for pretty nigh a week.

We have been making a little easting, but that is all, and we are getting into the region of ice.