What means “through your benches coming alongside”, and how could you get around it?
“Luck of the gods),” he said. Five–four–years ago I might have been waiting for you anywhere in the Long Puddle with fifty River men and no moon. ” Baeticus lifted a moist eye to the slip-hooks on his yardarm, that could hoist and drop weights at a sign. Can you talk your birds through the ballast at in a train? Where would my overhead-nettings have been? ‘The other chuckled. ‘Blazing–at fifty yards’, ask an observer. What are firearrows about? ‘To fizzle and stink on my wet sea-weed blindages.
What is the mean by “send round my kit”. “I
am glad if some one would kindly teaching me.. I need your help. I have come to know. Just now.
What are some recitations from “The Manner of Men” by Rudyard Kipling. https://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LimitsRenewals/mannermen.html I
don’t understand the meaning of by your
benches coming alongside, I am
glad if some one kindly teach me.
A pig of ballast was cut from a piece of a weight of a hundred on a ship, often for weighing a hundred pounds. These were carried on the lower part of the hull as ballast as the ship’s stability.
Baeticus uses these pigs as an offensive weapon: he hoists them up to the yardarm and as he comes alongside an opposing vessel swings them over her and drops them from a considerable height hoping to smash a hole through the benches, deck, and the hull itself.
