The Mirror of the Sea
The Mirror of the Sea
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It takes many lessons to make a real seaman, and I got my rebuke atonce. My experienced commander seemed in one searching glance toread my thoughts on my ingenuous face.
"What you're going for is to save life, not to drown your boat'screw for nothing, " he growled severely in my ear. But as we shovedoff he leaned over and cried out: "It all rests on the power ofyour arms, men. Give way for life!" We made a race of it, and I would never have believed that a commonboat's crew of a merchantman cou...ld keep up so much determinedfierceness in the regular swing of their stroke. What our captainhad clearly perceived before we left had become plain to all of ussince. The issue of our enterprise hung on a hair above that abyssof waters which will not give up its dead till the Day of Judgment. It was a race of two ship's boats matched against Death for a prizeof nine men's lives, and Death had a long start. We saw the crewof the brig from afar working at the pumps--still pumping on thatwreck, which already had settled so far down that the gentle, lowswell, over which our boats rose and fell easily without a check totheir speed, welling up almost level with her head-rails, pluckedat the ends of broken gear swinging desolately under her nakedbowsprit.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It takes many lessons to make a real seaman, and I got my rebuke atonce. My experienced commander seemed in one searching glance toread my thoughts on my ingenuous face.
"What you're going for is to save life, not to drown your boat'screw for nothing, " he growled severely in my ear. But as we shovedoff he leaned over and cried out: "It all rests on the power ofyour arms, men. Give way for life!" We made a race of it, and I would never have believed that a commonboat's crew of a merchantman cou...ld keep up so much determinedfierceness in the regular swing of their stroke. What our captainhad clearly perceived before we left had become plain to all of ussince. The issue of our enterprise hung on a hair above that abyssof waters which will not give up its dead till the Day of Judgment. It was a race of two ship's boats matched against Death for a prizeof nine men's lives, and Death had a long start. We saw the crewof the brig from afar working at the pumps--still pumping on thatwreck, which already had settled so far down that the gentle, lowswell, over which our boats rose and fell easily without a check totheir speed, welling up almost level with her head-rails, pluckedat the ends of broken gear swinging desolately under her nakedbowsprit.
What to read after The Mirror of the Sea?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Conrad Joseph to read onlineMoreLess
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