 | Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - India - 1828 - 878 pages
...long and only three broad, with outriggers, to enable them to carry sail. They use the tripod-mast, and row with great velocity. In bad weather they throw out a wooden anchor, and veer away a long rattan-cable, which keeps the head to the sea. Sometimes in an extremity the crew jump overboard and... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 842 pages
...in breadth, but furnished with outriggers, to enable them to carry sail. They use the tripod mast, and row with great velocity. In bad weather, they throw out a wooden anchor, and, by veering away a long rattan cable, keep the head to sea ; or sometimes, in a great extremity, the... | |
 | James Francis Warren - Corsair - 2002 - 614 pages
...to die in a struggle with a cruel sea by casting themselves overboard in an effort to avoid tragedy: In bad weather they throw out a wooden anchor, and...away a long ratan cable, which keeps their head to the sea. Sometimes in an extremity, the crew will jump overboard, and, with their bodies under water,... | |
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... rows forty oars, has two rudders, and carries a crew of ninety men. Some of their piratical cruizers are very long and narrow, being frequently fifty feet long and only three broad, with outriggers, to enable them to carry sail. They use the tripod-mast,... 