It is needless to say that, in almost all cases of similar hard squalls and gales, the latter step, though attended with more appalling appearances is, in reality, the safer of the two, and the most generally adopted.
Scudding makes you a slave to the blast, which drives you headlong before it; but _running up into the wind's eye_ enables you, in a degree, to hold it at bay.

Scudding exposes to the gale your stern, the weakest part of your hull; the contrary course presents to it your bows, your strongest part.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

Whereas, our ribbed chests, like the ribbed bows of a frigate, are as bulkheads to dam off an onset.
That night, off the pitch of the Cape, Captain Claret was hurried forth from his disguises, and, at a manhood-testing conjuncture, appeared in his true colours.

A thing which every man in the ship had long suspected that night was proved true.