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Title: The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 LaPlante, Charles. egr Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931. ill Dodd, Mead & Company. pbl
Subjects: Boys Conduct of life Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Merchant ships Seafaring life Sailing Slavery
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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are pulled out and back, between shore and ship, by means of ropes stretched along in all parts of the Roadstead, communicating with the landing-place on shore. These ropes are buoyed in various parts of the Roads, and the first thing necessary to be done, after coming to anchor, is to pick up the nearest one of the buoys, and secure to the bows the bight of rope attached. The surf broke on shore with great force, and we could see the boatmen as they cautiously approached its bounds, and waited for a large wave, rising on which, and exerting all their power to keep their boat straight,they were shot on shore, where a number of men were always in readiness to run the boat up high and dry, beyond the reach of the next sea. They are large, broad, heavily-built boats, sharp at each end, and capable, if the water was smooth,of carrying a large load, but on account of the surf they are in general but lightly loaded. The boatmen, whom long experience has taught every peculiarity of the weather here, can
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A HURRICANE. 197 (tell the approach of a gale, it is said, even before the barometer gives notice of it, and at such times refuse to venture out to the shipping. One of our men, who had been in Madras Roads a year before, related to us his experience of a storm. They had sent.ashore about half their cargo, and received on board a quantity of rice for the boat that takes ashore goods from the ship brings back the return freight, it being important to keep enough cargo in the ship at all times to enable her to stand up before a gale—when the Semaphore on shore displayed the signals signifying the approach of a storm. Everything was at once secured, in the hold and on deck, and preparations made to get up anchor and run out to sea. Before, however, they could do this, so heavy a sea had set in that it was found impossible to bring the ship up to her anchor, and as the weather looked very threatening, they buoyed the chain, took the bearings of their anchor buoy, and slipped and ran out to s

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