Looking down on the ocean, the first object which presented itself to my eye, was a small one-masted shallop, which was buffetting the waves in a south-westerly direction.

And of the rotenesse and other thing that was with in the schippes, grewen suche buscaylle and thornes and breres and grene grasse and suche maner of thing; and of the mastes and the seylle zerdes; it semed a gret wode or a grove.

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" [70] From ponte, deck; a two-masted vessel, with mat sails, of about 100 tons burden.

A little beyond, a tug was sending up a twisted pillar of smoke as it towed a three-masted schooner to sea.

It was with a quickened beat of the heart that he ran the last few steps, and saw her in all her quiet dignitythe Celestine, four-masted schooner.

And she's a four-masted schooner.

She was a ship of probably 1,500 tons, three-masted, and a sailer.

But mostly it was on the lake that I saw her, for there we chiefly lived, and occasionally there were guilty approaches and rencontres, she in her boat, I in mine, both being slight clinker-built Montreux pleasure-boats, which I had spent some days in overhauling and varnishing, mine with jib, fore-and-aft mainsail, and spanker, hers rather smaller, one-masted, with an easy-running lug-sail.

The sail, making Mentone, was much nearer, and had developed into a two-masted ship.

The strange ship, which is a three-masted merchantman, is taking in her top-gallant sails.

I can, however, see for a half a mile, and if the three-masted merchantman is not visible, it is probably because she is lying off the other, or port, side of the Ebba.

If the three-masted merchantman which lay becalmed was not visible at break of day it was because she had been scuttled by the tug, boarded by the cut-throat band on the Ebba, and sunk with all on board after being pillaged.

The cutwater of this great Leviathan clipper, the OCCIDENTAL,this thirty-masted wind-and-steam wave-crusher,must throw a little spray over the human vocabulary as it splits the waters of a new world's destiny!

But, ah! how swiftly, threateningly they grew: the smaller, two-masted fore-and-afts, each seemingly unarmed but for one monster gun pivoted amidships, and the towering, wide-armed three-masters, the low and the tall consorting like dog and hunter.

At its pier lay a three-masted schooner and several barges and smaller boats.

Their walles are not aboue two foote thicke made of brickes: euery flanker hath diuers mastes and peeces of wood, which they vse when they are besieged by their enemies.

The 12. of Iune wee had a close sky with raine, and the same euening our fore top maste fell downe.

The 11. of August we had still a Southerly winde, and therefore about noone the Mauritius set saile, and wee thought likewise to saile, but our men were so weake that we could not hoyse vp our anker, so that we were constrained to lie still till men came out to helpe vs, about euening the winde came Southwest, and with so great a storme, that we thought to haue run vpon the strand, and were forced to cut downe our maine maste.

The 6. of Iuly our Admirall the Mauritius had two of his mastes blowne ouerboord: for which cause we were contrained to towe him along.

Read, with this gang, and a brigantine of 60 tons, steered his course for the Persian Gulf, where they met a grab, (a one masted vessel) of about 200 tons, which was made a prize.

But at the foot of it lay rows of one-masted sailing vessels loaded halfway up their masts with piles of fire-wood.

Once he accompanied such a group to that part of the harbour where tall-masted fullriggers with foreign flags lay nose by stern in unbroken line along the quay.

The period of mourning by half-masted colors will cease at sunset.

A large three-masted steamer, of apparently 2000 tons, was lying in the offing, and three small boats could be seen a few miles distant pulling swiftly toward the mouth of the river.