You may as well send Mr.Eden down." Mr.Hardy was not long before he came down again and, at the captain's suggestion, both he and Harry went below, and armed themselves with pistols.

As soon as they came up again, they took their places by Fairclough.

The seamen had all gathered aft.

The boatswain had cut the lashings holding the spars--that had been sent down from aloft--in their place by the bulwarks.

The boats had all been torn from their davits, or smashed; with the exception of the largest cutter, which lay bottom upwards in the middle of the ship, securely lashed to the deck.
"Now, men," the captain said, raising his voice almost to a shout, so that all might hear him, "you have behaved as well as men could do, during this storm; and I have no doubt that you will continue to do so, to the end.