Her gaze settled on him, where he hung far out, grasping a backstay, watching the movements below, and her slender form straightened as by the acquisition of new strength.

It was no pleasant job getting aboard, but ordering Haines to accompany me, and the others to lie by in the lee of the boom, I made use of a dangling backstay, and thus hauled myself up to a reasonably secure footing.

The main halyards take the place of a backstay.

'Bagh ka butcha!' screams our mahout, and regardless of the elephant or of our cries to stop, he scuttled down the pad rope like a monkey down a backstay, and clutching a young dead tiger cub, threw it up to Debnarain; it was about the size of a small poodle, and had evidently been trampled by the pursuing herd of buffaloes.

Leith picked himself up, gripped a loose backstay with his left hand and swung himself toward me, striking out viciously with his free right hand when he came within hitting distance.

Backstays are long ropes, reaching from the right and left sides of the vessel to the mast heads.

Travellers are slight iron rings, encircling the backstays, and are used for hoisting the top-gallant yards, and confining them to the backstays.

Travellers are slight iron rings, encircling the backstays, and are used for hoisting the top-gallant yards, and confining them to the backstays.

Now I think, friend Harris, you set up the backstays of your conscience a little too taught.

he shouted fearfully through his trumpet; "down by the backstays; down for your lives; every man of you, down!" A solitary individual, of them all, profited by the warning, and was seen gliding towards the deck with the velocity of the wind.

The uproar that attended the onset, had caught the attention of Fid, who, the instant he saw the nature of the sports below, abandoned his companion on the yard, and slid downwards to the deck by the aid of a backstay, with about as much facility as that caricature of man, the monkey, could have performed the same manoeuvre.

But what is this I see hereaway, atween the backstay and the vang?

Without fear Mrs. Weldon saw Jack, in company with Dick Sand, spring out on the shrouds, climb to the top of the mizzen-mast, or to the booms of the mizzen-topmast, and come down again like an arrow the whole length of the backstays.

Dick Sand had finished his task, and seizing one of the starboard backstays, he slid to the deck.

But, to secure the solidity of the masts, he had the shrouds and backstays hauled taut.

We replied with three more,our last farewell to civilisation,and silently watched the lessening figure of the steamer, until the white handkerchief which Arnold had tied to the backstays could no longer be seen, and we were rocking alone on the long swells of the Pacific.

11 A.M. I have just come down from the topgallant yard, where for the last three hours I have been clinging uncomfortably to the backstays, watching for land, and swinging back and forth through the fog in the arc of a great circle as the vessel rolled lazily to the seas.

Thurstane went to them, got the old man lashed to one of the backstays, and helped Coronado to secure himself to another.

Coronado and Garcia were still fast to the backstays, the former a good deal wilted by his hardships, and the latter whimpering.

As the first, he is like a spar supported by backstays and forestays, braces and standing rigging; while, as the latter, he is the stick, which keeps its head aloft by the soundness and quality of its timber.

Swinging off from the poop by a backstay that had been shot away a moment before, he alighted on the quarter-deck by the side of the master.

"I saythe weather-main-swifter and both backstays are gone; Look to the spars, forforthere are sometimesheavy puffs at nightin the Americas!"