Eight feet of the butt was above the rail, and I was as far away as ever from getting the
spar on board.
It is impossible for me to convey any idea of the overpowering beauty and grandeur of these pillars of white
spar, some of which were not less than twenty feet in diameter at the base, and sprang up in lofty and yet delicate beauty sheer to the distant roof.
True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from
spar to
spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
So I cut down some trees and rigged a
spar on the starboard and another on the port side, and fooled away upward of three hours trying to
spar her off.