It had the effect of rallying the ship's
crew. The ocean was watched with renewed attention.
The
crew was complete: it included a Boots-- A maker of Bonnets and Hoods-- A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes-- And a Broker, to value their goods.
A single glance at the vessel's deck assured me that the battle was over and that we had been victorious, for I saw our survivors holding a handful of the enemy at pistol points while one by one the rest of the
crew was coming out of the craft's interior and lining up on deck with the other prisoners.
He owned, when driven into a corner, that he seemed to have been wrong about the
crew, that some of them were as brisk as he wanted to see and all had behaved fairly well.
Sheeta leaped here and there, screaming out his startled terror in hideous cries that sent the ice of fear straight to the hearts of the Kincaid's
crew.
We made a race of it, and I would never have believed that a common boat's
crew of a merchantman could keep up so much determined fierceness in the regular swing of their stroke.
Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantes proceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her
crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.
They were determined to regale and astonish the people of the "States" with the sight of a Canadian boat and a Canadian
crew. They accordingly fitted up a large but light bark canoe, such as is used in the fur trade; transported it in a wagon from the banks of the St.
He walked over, the centre of the boat's
crew and of the three-score return boys who were all on deck, and flashed his torch on the blanket still lying on the yams.
Also, having quarrelled with Clam and broken partnership, Nelson had sailed the Reindeer, his arm in a sling, with a
crew of two deep-water sailors, and he had sailed so madly as to frighten them ashore.
Her officers were swarthy bullies, hating and hated by their
crew. The captain, while a competent seaman, was a brute in his treatment of his men.
It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's
crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.