“Broad on the weather-beam.”
“Can you make her out?”
“A heavy square-rigged vessel.”
“Do her royals lift?”
“Aye, sir; but only this moment.”
“How does she bear?”
“West and by west sou’ west.”
“A West Indiaman, perhaps.”
“Ay, sir, I can see her to’-gallants now: they belong to a heavy craft.”
“Pipe all hands to make sail, boatswain.”