September 2, 2025 • 17 mins
Step back into the dawn of American history with Elizabethan Sea-Dogs, where the spirit of the citizen, colonist, and pioneer comes alive! This captivating exploration reveals the daring adventurers of the Elizabethan era who paved the way for future generations in the New World. Under the brilliant leadership of Sir Francis Drake, the first of the modern admirals, English sailors claimed their dominion over the sea. Known as Sea-Dogs, they opened the gateway for explorers and settlers seeking their fortunes in America. Discover how this century of maritime quests and naval warfare laid the foundations for Anglo-American history and secured the path for countless pioneers eager to carve out their destinies.
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Chapter three of Elizabethan Sea Dogs by William Wood. This
LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter three Life
Afloat in Tudor Times. Two stories from Hacklets Voyages will
illustrate what sort of work the English were attempting in
(00:21):
America about fifteen hundred thirty, near the middle of King
Henry's reign. The success of Master Hawkins and the failure
of Master Whore are quite typical of several other adventures
in the New World. Old mister William Hawkins of Plymouth,
a man for his wisdom, dollar experience and skill in
(00:46):
sea causes, much esteemed and beloved of King Henry the Eighth,
and being one of the principal sea captains in the
west parts of England in his time. Not contented with
the short voyages commonly then made only to the known
coasts of Europe, armed out a tall and goodly ship
of his own, of the Burthen, of two hundred and
(01:07):
fifty tons, called the Pole of Plymouth, wherewith he made
three long and famous voyages unto the coast of Brazil,
a thing in those days very rare, especially to our nation.
Hawkins first went down the Guinea coast of Africa, where
he trafficked with the Negroes, and took of them Oliphant's
(01:27):
teeth and other commodities which that place yieldeth, And so,
arriving on the coast of Brazil, used there such discretion
and behaved himself so wisely with those savage people, that
he grew into great familiarity and friendship with them, insomuch
that in his second voyage, one of the savage kings
(01:49):
of the country of Brazil was contented to take ship
with him and to be transported hither into England. This
king was presented unto King Henry the Eighth. The King
and all the nobility did not a little marvel, for
in his cheeks were holes, and therein small bones planted,
which in his country was reputed for a great bravery.
(02:12):
The poor Brazilian monarch died on his voyage back, which
made Hawkins fear for the life of Martin Cockrum, whom
he had left in Brazil as a hostage. However, the
Brazilians took Hawkins's word for it released Cockrum, who lived
another forty years in Plymouth. Old Mister William Hawkins was
the father of Sir John Hawkins, Drake's companion in arms,
(02:36):
whom we shall meet later. He was also the grandfather
of Sir Richard Hawkins, another naval hero, and of the
second William Hawkins, one of the founders of the greatest
of all chartered companies, the Honorable East India Company. Hawkins
knew what he was about. Master Whore did not. Hall
(02:57):
was a well meaning, plausible fellow, good at taking up
newfangled ideas, bad at carrying them out, and the very
cut of a wildcat company promoter except for his honesty.
He persuaded divers, young lawyers of the inns of Court
and Chancery, to go to Newfoundland. One hundred and twenty
men set off in this modern ship of fools, which
(03:20):
ran into Newfoundland at night and was wrecked. There were
no provisions, and none of the diver's lawyers seems to
have known how to catch a fish. After trying to
live on wild fruit, they took to eating each other
in spite of Master Whore, who stood up boldly and
warned them of the fire to come. Just then a
(03:40):
French fishing smack came in, whereupon the lawyers seized her,
put her rectord crew ashore, and sailed away with all
the food she had. The outraged Frenchman found another vessel,
chased the lawyers back to England, and laid their case
before the King, who, out of his royal bounty, reimbursed
the Frenchmen and let the diver's lawyers go scot free.
(04:05):
Hawkins and Horr and others like them were the heroes
of travelers tales. But what was the ordinary life of
the sailor who went down to the sea in the
ships of the Tudor age. There are very few quite
authentic descriptions of life afloat before the end of the
sixteenth century, and even then we rarely see the ship
and crew about their ordinary work. Everybody was all agog
(04:30):
for marvelous discoveries. Nobody, least of all seamen, bothered his
head about describing the daily routine on board. We know, however,
that it was a lot of almost incredible hardship. Only
the fittest could survive. Elizabethan landsmen may have been quite
as prone to mistake comfort for civilization as most of
(04:53):
the world is said to be now. Elizabethan sailors when
afloat most certainly were not, and for the simple reason
that there was no such thing as real comfort in
a ship. Here are a few verses from the oldest
genuine English sea song known. They were written down in
the fifteenth century, before the discovery of America, and were
(05:15):
probably touched up a little by the scribe. The original
manuscript is now in Trinity College, Cambridge. It is a
true nautical composition, a very rare thing, indeed, for genuine
sea songs didn't often get into print and weren't enjoyed
by landsmen when they did. The setting is that of
(05:35):
a merchantman carrying passengers whose discomforts rather amuse the shipmen.
Anon the master commanded fast to his shipmen in all
the hasta to dress them line up soon about the
mast they're takling to make with how hissa. Then they cry,
(06:00):
what how may thou standest to nigh thy fellow may
not haul thee by Thus they begin to crake, shout
a boy or twain, Anon, ap stain, go aloft and
overthwart the sail yard lane. Lie ye, how Tahlia the
(06:22):
remnant cry and cry and pull with all their might
bestow the boat boats and Anon, that our pilgrims may
play thereon. For some are like to cough and groan
ere it be full midnight. Haul the bow line, now
(06:42):
veer the sheet cook made ready Anon our meat. Our
pilgrims have no less to eat. I pray God give
them rest. Go to the helm, what ho no nearer
steward fellow, a pot of beer, ye shall have, sir,
with good cheer, Anon, all of the best. Ye, how
(07:04):
trussa aul in the brails, Thou haulest not by God,
thou failest, oh see how well our good ship sails.
And thus they say along this mean. While the pilgrims
lie and have their bowls, all fast them by and
cry after hot mouth, the sigh their health. For to
(07:27):
restore some lay their books on their knee and read
so long they cannot see alas mine head will split
in three. Thus saith, one poor white A sack of
straw were their right good? For some must lay them
in their hood. I had as leef be in the wood,
without or meat or drink, for when that we shall
(07:51):
go to bed. The pump is not our bedest head.
A man he were as good be dead as smell
thereof Thus staink How hissa is still used to board
deep water men as ho hissa instead of hoe hoist away.
What home made is also known afloat, though dying out
(08:12):
eye how talia is yo yo tally or tally, and
belay which means hauling after making fast the sheet of
a mainsail or foresail. What ho no nearer is, what
hold no higher now? But old salts remember no nearer,
and it may be still extant. Sea sickness seems to
have been the same as ever, so was the depthsperate
(08:34):
effort to pretend one was not really feeling it, and
cry after hot mao the sea their health for to
restore Here is another sea song, one sung by the
sea dogs themselves. The doubt is whether the marshall men
are navymen, has distinguished from merchants servicemen aboard a kingship,
(08:56):
or whether they are soldiers who want to take all
sailors down a peg or two. This seems the more
probable explanation. Soldiers ranked sailors afloat in the sixteenth century,
and Drake's was the first fleet in the world in
which seamen admirals were allowed to fight a purely naval action.
We be three poor mariners, newly come from the seas.
(09:19):
We spend our lives in jeopardy, while others live at ease.
We care not for those martial men that do our
states disdain, but we care for those merchantmen that do
our states maintain. A third old Sea song gives voice
to the universal complaint that landsmen cheat sailors who come
home flush of gold. For sailors, they be honest men,
(09:41):
and they do take great pains. But landmen and raffling
lads do rob them of their gains. Hereto is some
cordial advice against the wives of the sea, addressed to
all rash young men who think to advance their decaying
fortunes by navigation, as most of the sea dogs and
gentlemen adventures like Gilbert Raleigh and Cavendish tried to do. You,
(10:06):
merchantmen of Billingsgate, I wonder how you thrive. You bargain
with men for six months and pay them but for five.
This was an abuse that took a long time to
die out, even while in the nineteenth century, and sometimes
even on board of steamers, vittling was only by the
lunar month, though service went by the calendar. A cursed
(10:28):
cat with thrice three tales that much increase our roe
is a poetical way of putting another's seamen's grievance. People
who regret that there is such a discrepancy between genuine
sea songs and shoregoing imitations will be glad to know
that the Mermaid is genuine, though the usual air to
which it was sung afloat was harsh and decidedly inferior
(10:51):
to the one used ashore. This example of the old
four bitters, so called because some from the four bits,
a convenient mass of stout ties members near the foremast,
did not luxuriate in the repetitions of its shoregoing rival.
With a comb and a glass in her hand, her hand,
her hand, et cetera. Sola. On Friday morning, as we
(11:15):
set sail, it was not far from land. Oh, there
I spied a fair pretty made with a comb and
a glass in her hand. Course, the stormy winds did blow,
and the raging seas did roar while we poured. Sailors
went to the tops, and the land lubbers laid below.
The anonymous author of a curious composition entitled The Complaint
(11:37):
of Scotland, written in fifteen hundred and forty eight, seems
to be the only man who took more interest in
the means than in the ends of seamanship. He was
undoubtedly a landsman, but he loved the things of the
sea and his work as well. Worth reading as a
vocabulary of the lingo that was used on border Tudor's
ship when the seamen sang it sound like an echo
(12:01):
in a cave. Many of the outlandish words were Mediterranean
terms which the scientific Italian navigators had brought north. Others
were of Oriental origin, which was very natural in view
of the long connection between east and west at sea. Admiral,
for instance, comes from the Arabic for a commander in
chief amir al barr means commander of the sea. Most
(12:25):
of the nautical technicalities would strike a semen of the
present day as being quite modern. The sixteenth century skipper
would be readily understood by a twentieth century helmsman in
the case of such orders as these, keep fu Lumbay,
lof Connor steady, keep close. Our modern sailor in the navy, however,
(12:46):
would be hopelessly lost in trying to follow directions like
the following make ready yor canons, middle culverins, bastard, caulverns,
falcon sacres, slings, headsticks, murderous passivoleance, basils, dogs, court arquabuses, calivers,
and hail shot. Another look at life afloat in the
(13:09):
sixteenth century brings us once more into touch with America.
For the old sea dog directions for the taking of
a prize were admirably summed up in the Seamen's Grammar,
which was compiled by Captain John Smith, sometime Governor of
Virginia and Admiral of New England Pocahontas Smith. In fact,
a sail howbears she to windward or leeward, set him
(13:33):
by the compass. He stands right ahead or on the
weather bow or lee bow. Let fly your colors if
you have a consort, else not out with all your sails.
A steady man at the helm, give him chase, He
holds his own. No we gather on him. Captain outges
his flag and pendants, also his rais cloths and top armings,
(13:56):
which is a long red cloth that goeth round about
the ship on the outsides of all her upper works,
and for a main tops as well, for the countenance
and grace of the ship, as to cover the men
from being seen. He furls and slings his main yard
inges his sprit sail. Thus they strip themselves into their
fighting sails, which is only the foresail, the main and
(14:20):
four topsails, because the rest should not be fired nor spoiled. Besides,
they would be troublesome to handle, hinder our sights and
the using of our arms. He makes ready his close
fights for and aft bulkheads set up to government under fire.
Every man to his charge, doubts your topsail to salute
(14:41):
him for the sea. Hail him with a noise of trumpets.
Whence is your ship of Spain, wence azurs of England.
Are you merchants or men of war? We are of
the sea. He waves us to lurd with his drawn sword,
calls out a main for the king of Spain, and
springs his luck. Brings his vest so close by the wind.
(15:01):
Give him a chase piece with your broadside, and run
a good berth ahead of him. Done done, we have
the wind of him, and now he tacks about. Tack
about also, and keep your love beyre at the helm
edge in with him. Give him a volley of small shot,
also your prow and broadside as before, and keep your love.
He pays a shot for shot, Well, we shall requite him.
(15:23):
Edge in with him again, begin with your bow pieces.
Proceed with your broadside, and let her fall off with
the wind to give him also your full chase your
weather broadside, and bring her around so that the stern
may also discharge, and your tax close aboard again. The
wind deer is the sea goes too high to border,
and we are shot through and through in between wind
(15:46):
and water. Try the pump, bear up the helm, sling
a man overboard to stop the leaks. That is, trusts
him up around the middle in a piece of canvas
and a rope with his arms at liberty, with a
mallet and plugs lapped in oakum and well tarred a
tarpaulin clout, which he will quickly beat into the holes
the bullets made. What cheer mates is all well? All's well?
(16:08):
Then make ready to bear up with him again with
all your great and small shot. Charge him, board him,
thwart the haws on the bow midships, or rather than
fail on his quarter, or make faster grapplings to his
close fights and sheer off which would tear his cover down. Captain,
we are foul of each other, and the ship is
on fire. Cut anything to get clear and smother the
(16:29):
fire with wet cloths. In such a case they will
be presently such friends as to help one the other
all they can to get clear, lest they should both
burn together and so sink. And if they be generous
in the fiber quenched, they will drink kindly, one to
the other. Heave their cans overboard, and begin again as
before Kyle Rigin looked to the wounded, and wind up
(16:52):
the slain, and give them three guns for their funerals.
Swabber may clean the ship. Purser record their names. Watch,
be vigilant to keep your birth to windward, that we
lose him not in the night. Gunners, sponge your ordnance. Soldiers,
scour your pieces, carpenters about your leaks. Boatsen and the
rest repair sails and shrouds. Cook see you observe your
(17:15):
directions against the morning. Watch boy, Hello is the kettle boiled? I, Sir, Boatsen,
call up the men to prayer and breakfast. Always have
as much care to their wounded as to your own.
And if there be either young women or aged men,
use them nobly. Sound drums and trumpets. Saint George for Mary, England.
(17:38):
End of chapter three
Chapter three of Elizabethan Sea Dogs by William Wood. This
LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter three Life
Afloat in Tudor Times. Two stories from Hacklets Voyages will
illustrate what sort of work the English were attempting in
(00:21):
America about fifteen hundred thirty, near the middle of King
Henry's reign. The success of Master Hawkins and the failure
of Master Whore are quite typical of several other adventures
in the New World. Old mister William Hawkins of Plymouth,
a man for his wisdom, dollar experience and skill in
(00:46):
sea causes, much esteemed and beloved of King Henry the Eighth,
and being one of the principal sea captains in the
west parts of England in his time. Not contented with
the short voyages commonly then made only to the known
coasts of Europe, armed out a tall and goodly ship
of his own, of the Burthen, of two hundred and
(01:07):
fifty tons, called the Pole of Plymouth, wherewith he made
three long and famous voyages unto the coast of Brazil,
a thing in those days very rare, especially to our nation.
Hawkins first went down the Guinea coast of Africa, where
he trafficked with the Negroes, and took of them Oliphant's
(01:27):
teeth and other commodities which that place yieldeth, And so,
arriving on the coast of Brazil, used there such discretion
and behaved himself so wisely with those savage people, that
he grew into great familiarity and friendship with them, insomuch
that in his second voyage, one of the savage kings
(01:49):
of the country of Brazil was contented to take ship
with him and to be transported hither into England. This
king was presented unto King Henry the Eighth. The King
and all the nobility did not a little marvel, for
in his cheeks were holes, and therein small bones planted,
which in his country was reputed for a great bravery.
(02:12):
The poor Brazilian monarch died on his voyage back, which
made Hawkins fear for the life of Martin Cockrum, whom
he had left in Brazil as a hostage. However, the
Brazilians took Hawkins's word for it released Cockrum, who lived
another forty years in Plymouth. Old Mister William Hawkins was
the father of Sir John Hawkins, Drake's companion in arms,
(02:36):
whom we shall meet later. He was also the grandfather
of Sir Richard Hawkins, another naval hero, and of the
second William Hawkins, one of the founders of the greatest
of all chartered companies, the Honorable East India Company. Hawkins
knew what he was about. Master Whore did not. Hall
(02:57):
was a well meaning, plausible fellow, good at taking up
newfangled ideas, bad at carrying them out, and the very
cut of a wildcat company promoter except for his honesty.
He persuaded divers, young lawyers of the inns of Court
and Chancery, to go to Newfoundland. One hundred and twenty
men set off in this modern ship of fools, which
(03:20):
ran into Newfoundland at night and was wrecked. There were
no provisions, and none of the diver's lawyers seems to
have known how to catch a fish. After trying to
live on wild fruit, they took to eating each other
in spite of Master Whore, who stood up boldly and
warned them of the fire to come. Just then a
(03:40):
French fishing smack came in, whereupon the lawyers seized her,
put her rectord crew ashore, and sailed away with all
the food she had. The outraged Frenchman found another vessel,
chased the lawyers back to England, and laid their case
before the King, who, out of his royal bounty, reimbursed
the Frenchmen and let the diver's lawyers go scot free.
(04:05):
Hawkins and Horr and others like them were the heroes
of travelers tales. But what was the ordinary life of
the sailor who went down to the sea in the
ships of the Tudor age. There are very few quite
authentic descriptions of life afloat before the end of the
sixteenth century, and even then we rarely see the ship
and crew about their ordinary work. Everybody was all agog
(04:30):
for marvelous discoveries. Nobody, least of all seamen, bothered his
head about describing the daily routine on board. We know, however,
that it was a lot of almost incredible hardship. Only
the fittest could survive. Elizabethan landsmen may have been quite
as prone to mistake comfort for civilization as most of
(04:53):
the world is said to be now. Elizabethan sailors when
afloat most certainly were not, and for the simple reason
that there was no such thing as real comfort in
a ship. Here are a few verses from the oldest
genuine English sea song known. They were written down in
the fifteenth century, before the discovery of America, and were
(05:15):
probably touched up a little by the scribe. The original
manuscript is now in Trinity College, Cambridge. It is a
true nautical composition, a very rare thing, indeed, for genuine
sea songs didn't often get into print and weren't enjoyed
by landsmen when they did. The setting is that of
(05:35):
a merchantman carrying passengers whose discomforts rather amuse the shipmen.
Anon the master commanded fast to his shipmen in all
the hasta to dress them line up soon about the
mast they're takling to make with how hissa. Then they cry,
(06:00):
what how may thou standest to nigh thy fellow may
not haul thee by Thus they begin to crake, shout
a boy or twain, Anon, ap stain, go aloft and
overthwart the sail yard lane. Lie ye, how Tahlia the
(06:22):
remnant cry and cry and pull with all their might
bestow the boat boats and Anon, that our pilgrims may
play thereon. For some are like to cough and groan
ere it be full midnight. Haul the bow line, now
(06:42):
veer the sheet cook made ready Anon our meat. Our
pilgrims have no less to eat. I pray God give
them rest. Go to the helm, what ho no nearer
steward fellow, a pot of beer, ye shall have, sir,
with good cheer, Anon, all of the best. Ye, how
(07:04):
trussa aul in the brails, Thou haulest not by God,
thou failest, oh see how well our good ship sails.
And thus they say along this mean. While the pilgrims
lie and have their bowls, all fast them by and
cry after hot mouth, the sigh their health. For to
(07:27):
restore some lay their books on their knee and read
so long they cannot see alas mine head will split
in three. Thus saith, one poor white A sack of
straw were their right good? For some must lay them
in their hood. I had as leef be in the wood,
without or meat or drink, for when that we shall
(07:51):
go to bed. The pump is not our bedest head.
A man he were as good be dead as smell
thereof Thus staink How hissa is still used to board
deep water men as ho hissa instead of hoe hoist away.
What home made is also known afloat, though dying out
(08:12):
eye how talia is yo yo tally or tally, and
belay which means hauling after making fast the sheet of
a mainsail or foresail. What ho no nearer is, what
hold no higher now? But old salts remember no nearer,
and it may be still extant. Sea sickness seems to
have been the same as ever, so was the depthsperate
(08:34):
effort to pretend one was not really feeling it, and
cry after hot mao the sea their health for to
restore Here is another sea song, one sung by the
sea dogs themselves. The doubt is whether the marshall men
are navymen, has distinguished from merchants servicemen aboard a kingship,
(08:56):
or whether they are soldiers who want to take all
sailors down a peg or two. This seems the more
probable explanation. Soldiers ranked sailors afloat in the sixteenth century,
and Drake's was the first fleet in the world in
which seamen admirals were allowed to fight a purely naval action.
We be three poor mariners, newly come from the seas.
(09:19):
We spend our lives in jeopardy, while others live at ease.
We care not for those martial men that do our
states disdain, but we care for those merchantmen that do
our states maintain. A third old Sea song gives voice
to the universal complaint that landsmen cheat sailors who come
home flush of gold. For sailors, they be honest men,
(09:41):
and they do take great pains. But landmen and raffling
lads do rob them of their gains. Hereto is some
cordial advice against the wives of the sea, addressed to
all rash young men who think to advance their decaying
fortunes by navigation, as most of the sea dogs and
gentlemen adventures like Gilbert Raleigh and Cavendish tried to do. You,
(10:06):
merchantmen of Billingsgate, I wonder how you thrive. You bargain
with men for six months and pay them but for five.
This was an abuse that took a long time to
die out, even while in the nineteenth century, and sometimes
even on board of steamers, vittling was only by the
lunar month, though service went by the calendar. A cursed
(10:28):
cat with thrice three tales that much increase our roe
is a poetical way of putting another's seamen's grievance. People
who regret that there is such a discrepancy between genuine
sea songs and shoregoing imitations will be glad to know
that the Mermaid is genuine, though the usual air to
which it was sung afloat was harsh and decidedly inferior
(10:51):
to the one used ashore. This example of the old
four bitters, so called because some from the four bits,
a convenient mass of stout ties members near the foremast,
did not luxuriate in the repetitions of its shoregoing rival.
With a comb and a glass in her hand, her hand,
her hand, et cetera. Sola. On Friday morning, as we
(11:15):
set sail, it was not far from land. Oh, there
I spied a fair pretty made with a comb and
a glass in her hand. Course, the stormy winds did blow,
and the raging seas did roar while we poured. Sailors
went to the tops, and the land lubbers laid below.
The anonymous author of a curious composition entitled The Complaint
(11:37):
of Scotland, written in fifteen hundred and forty eight, seems
to be the only man who took more interest in
the means than in the ends of seamanship. He was
undoubtedly a landsman, but he loved the things of the
sea and his work as well. Worth reading as a
vocabulary of the lingo that was used on border Tudor's
ship when the seamen sang it sound like an echo
(12:01):
in a cave. Many of the outlandish words were Mediterranean
terms which the scientific Italian navigators had brought north. Others
were of Oriental origin, which was very natural in view
of the long connection between east and west at sea. Admiral,
for instance, comes from the Arabic for a commander in
chief amir al barr means commander of the sea. Most
(12:25):
of the nautical technicalities would strike a semen of the
present day as being quite modern. The sixteenth century skipper
would be readily understood by a twentieth century helmsman in
the case of such orders as these, keep fu Lumbay,
lof Connor steady, keep close. Our modern sailor in the navy, however,
(12:46):
would be hopelessly lost in trying to follow directions like
the following make ready yor canons, middle culverins, bastard, caulverns,
falcon sacres, slings, headsticks, murderous passivoleance, basils, dogs, court arquabuses, calivers,
and hail shot. Another look at life afloat in the
(13:09):
sixteenth century brings us once more into touch with America.
For the old sea dog directions for the taking of
a prize were admirably summed up in the Seamen's Grammar,
which was compiled by Captain John Smith, sometime Governor of
Virginia and Admiral of New England Pocahontas Smith. In fact,
a sail howbears she to windward or leeward, set him
(13:33):
by the compass. He stands right ahead or on the
weather bow or lee bow. Let fly your colors if
you have a consort, else not out with all your sails.
A steady man at the helm, give him chase, He
holds his own. No we gather on him. Captain outges
his flag and pendants, also his rais cloths and top armings,
(13:56):
which is a long red cloth that goeth round about
the ship on the outsides of all her upper works,
and for a main tops as well, for the countenance
and grace of the ship, as to cover the men
from being seen. He furls and slings his main yard
inges his sprit sail. Thus they strip themselves into their
fighting sails, which is only the foresail, the main and
(14:20):
four topsails, because the rest should not be fired nor spoiled. Besides,
they would be troublesome to handle, hinder our sights and
the using of our arms. He makes ready his close
fights for and aft bulkheads set up to government under fire.
Every man to his charge, doubts your topsail to salute
(14:41):
him for the sea. Hail him with a noise of trumpets.
Whence is your ship of Spain, wence azurs of England.
Are you merchants or men of war? We are of
the sea. He waves us to lurd with his drawn sword,
calls out a main for the king of Spain, and
springs his luck. Brings his vest so close by the wind.
(15:01):
Give him a chase piece with your broadside, and run
a good berth ahead of him. Done done, we have
the wind of him, and now he tacks about. Tack
about also, and keep your love beyre at the helm
edge in with him. Give him a volley of small shot,
also your prow and broadside as before, and keep your love.
He pays a shot for shot, Well, we shall requite him.
(15:23):
Edge in with him again, begin with your bow pieces.
Proceed with your broadside, and let her fall off with
the wind to give him also your full chase your
weather broadside, and bring her around so that the stern
may also discharge, and your tax close aboard again. The
wind deer is the sea goes too high to border,
and we are shot through and through in between wind
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and water. Try the pump, bear up the helm, sling
a man overboard to stop the leaks. That is, trusts
him up around the middle in a piece of canvas
and a rope with his arms at liberty, with a
mallet and plugs lapped in oakum and well tarred a
tarpaulin clout, which he will quickly beat into the holes
the bullets made. What cheer mates is all well? All's well?
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Then make ready to bear up with him again with
all your great and small shot. Charge him, board him,
thwart the haws on the bow midships, or rather than
fail on his quarter, or make faster grapplings to his
close fights and sheer off which would tear his cover down. Captain,
we are foul of each other, and the ship is
on fire. Cut anything to get clear and smother the
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fire with wet cloths. In such a case they will
be presently such friends as to help one the other
all they can to get clear, lest they should both
burn together and so sink. And if they be generous
in the fiber quenched, they will drink kindly, one to
the other. Heave their cans overboard, and begin again as
before Kyle Rigin looked to the wounded, and wind up
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the slain, and give them three guns for their funerals.
Swabber may clean the ship. Purser record their names. Watch,
be vigilant to keep your birth to windward, that we
lose him not in the night. Gunners, sponge your ordnance. Soldiers,
scour your pieces, carpenters about your leaks. Boatsen and the
rest repair sails and shrouds. Cook see you observe your
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directions against the morning. Watch boy, Hello is the kettle boiled? I, Sir, Boatsen,
call up the men to prayer and breakfast. Always have
as much care to their wounded as to your own.
And if there be either young women or aged men,
use them nobly. Sound drums and trumpets. Saint George for Mary, England.
(17:38):
End of chapter three
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