Then addressing the helmsman: "Steer to the windward, Bolton.

I dismissed the helmsman; and the watch forward, taking advantage of the respite from duty, were soon recumbent in attitudes of heavy sleep.

As for Captain Morgan, having come down upon the main-deck, he fetches the young helmsman a clap upon the back.

A shell, bursting close to the wheel, had killed the helmsman, and a fragment had buried itself in the captain's breast.

Toni said nothing, but shoving aside the helmsman with a stroke of his paw, he grasped the wheel, making the boat swerve in another direction.

Blotted out was all the coast-line, gone were rock and wood and sand; Grimly anxious stood the helmsman with the tiller in his hand, And questioned of the darkness what was sea and what was land.

Indeed, just a week after the President signed the non-importation bill, as one of our coasting vessels was entering the harbor of New York, a British vessel, wishing to stop and search her, fired a shot which struck the helmsman and killed him at the wheel.

By putting out a hand he could have touched the helmsman, but his body made not even the shadow of a silhouette against the sky.

He tried the helmsman, and made that unfortunate thirsty for a week by discussing the rival merits of bitter ale in a pewter and stout in a china mug.