I had the crew shake out reefs in jib and foresail, and was surprised myself at the sailing qualities of the bark.

Indeed from where we crouched in the boat all we could see now was the bow with the jib and foresail.

This determined upon I called all hands, and with Watkins in command forward, preceded to strip the vessel of canvas, leaving exposed only a jib sheet, with closely reefed foresail, barely enough to give the wheelsman control.

It, moreover, selected this spot for its shrine by jibbing under the immediate eye of a bishop, and refusing to be carried further up the mountain.

Fishermen shake themselves up out of their mid-day snooze, to admire the beauty, as she slips on and on through water smooth as glass, her hull hidden by the vast curve of the balloon-jib, and her broad wings boomed out alow and aloft, till it seems marvellous how that vast screen does not topple headlong, instead of floating (as it seems) self-supporting above its image in the mirror.

Suddenly the skipper had thrown her head into, the wind, the jib and mainsail were clattering thunderously, and the boom went slashing over like a club in the hands of a giant.

Nor did I jib when Sir R.B. FINLAY took on unblushingly the job that seemed cut out for me.

The ship was under her three top-sails, spanker and jib, when Mons.

At this moment, the state of the game was as follows:The Dawn was lying-to, with her fore-course up, main-sail furled, main-top-sail aback, and top-gallant yards on the caps, jib and spanker both set.

Little did I understand, before practice taught me the lesson, that of all the work on board ship, which Jack is required to do, his trick at the wheel is that which he least covets, unless indeed it may be the office of stowing the jib in heavy weather.

It is scarcely necessary to say, that we had gradually diminished our own canvass, as it became necessary, until the ship was under double-reefed top-sails, the fore-course, jib and spanker.

It took all four of us to stow the jib, leaving Michael at the wheel the while.

My first measure was to lead the jib-stay, which had parted near the head of its own mast, to the head of the main-mast.

I then got up the halyards, and loosened and set the jib; a job that consumed quite two hours.

As soon as the jib was set, in this imperfect manner, I put the helm up, and got the ship before the wind.

I now jumped to the jib-halyards and down-haul, getting that sail reduced; then I half-brailed the spanker; this was done lest my hold on the yard should give way.

" While this was passing between us, the frigate was stripped to her three top-sails, spanker, jib, and fore-course Down came her yards, next; and then they were covered with blue-jackets, like bees clustering around a hive.

She had two reefs in her top-sails, with spanker, jib, and both courses set, like a craft that carried convenient, rather than urgent canvass.

Anyhow, old, sharp-faced, wrinkled and tanned to the color of a sole-leather trunk, the whole cut of his jib told you at once that he was a regular man-of-war's manone of a class whose faults I can hardly recall while remembering their sense of duty, their utter disregard of danger, and the reliance with which you can lead them on to attack anything, from a hornet's nest to an iron-clad.

So thick was it that from the poop one could just make out the loom of the foresail, but could see nothing of the fore-topmast-stay sail or the jib.

The boat lay at the wharf, a pretty little craft of six or eight tons, with a mainsail and jib.

The mainsail came down with a run, and the boat kept on with the jib only, though of course at a slower rate.

The boat was "down by the head," on account of the wind's drawing the jib, and rolled and plunged furiously.

Then he got off and led the horse, which was evidently what the brute wanted, for when the man remounted the jibbing began again.

Nap threw up his head with the action of a jibbing horse.