8/33 Michael, on the smooth roof of the cabin, slithered down the steep slope to starboard and disappeared, clawing and snarling, into the runway. The port shrouds of the foremast carried away at the chain-plates, and the fore-topmast leaned over drunkenly to starboard. "We certainly felt that." "Mr.Jackson," Captain Doane commanded the mate, "will you sound the well." The mate obeyed, although he kept an anxious eye on the whale, which had gone off at a tangent and was smoking away to the eastward. I didn't think a whale had it in it. |