Sinópse: Excerpt from Morley Ashton, Vol. 3: A Story of the Sea Sorely crippled though she was, and no longer under a stately spread of snow-white canvas, as of old, the fine ship flew on, and each night saw some southern constellation sink into the horizon, to appear no more. Thus, in four days, and as many nights, she ran nearly eight hundred miles, which brought her so close to the mouth of the Mozambique Channel, that she soon began to feel the steady breath of the south-west monsoon, which begins there to blow in April, and continues till November, so the Ship ran as fairly as even Pedro could have wished her. During this time matters did not go quietly between the adverse parties on board. A secret sally, made by Morley Ashton, Dr. Heriot, and Noah Gawthrop, up the companion stair, with the intention of capturing the scuttle butt in a very dark night, nearly ended in their being discovered and cut OR by Pedro’s drowsy and half-drunken watch the butt – a cask with a square hole cut in its bilge, and always kept on deck for the use of the crew – containing about seven gallons of water, was fortunately taken, the cabin regained in safety, and the barricades replaced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.