 | Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1823 - 616 pages
...Captain Pigott called aloud, and declared that he would flog the last man off the mizen-topsail-yard ! The poor fellows well knowing that he would keep his...them, who from their position could not reach the topmast-rigging, made a spring to get over their comrades within them ; they missed their hold, fell... | |
 | William James - 1826 - 606 pages
...reefing the topsails, the captain called aloud, that he would flog the last man off the mizentopsail yard. " The poor fellows, well knowing that he would...would naturally fall on the outermost and consequently th« most active,) each resolved at any rate to escape from punishment: two of them, who from their... | |
 | Charles Edward Armstrong - 1855 - 264 pages
...September, 1797, while cruizing off Porto Bico, on the crew reefing the topsails, the captain called aloud that he would flog the last man off the mizen- topsail...fellows, well knowing that he would keep his word, and thinking that the lot would fall on the outermost, each resolved, at any risk, to escape from punishment.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 216 pages
...men were aloft, reefing the topsails, he had threatened to flog the last man off the mizzentopsail yard. The poor fellows, well knowing that he would keep his word — though the lot would necessarily fall on the outermost, and therefore the most active — did their... | |
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The poor fellows well knowing that he would keep his word (and though the lot would naturally fall on the outermost, and consequently the most active), each resolved at any rate to escape from punishment: two of them, who from their position could not... 