The Leak of a Leaky Ship

Radney was doomed and made mad. And steel kilt. But gentlemen, you shall hear it was not more than a day or two at the furthest after pointing her prow for her island haven, that the town hos leak seemed again increasing. You must know that in settled and civilized ocean like our atlantic, for example, some skippers think little of pumping their whole way across it. Nor in the solitary and savage seas far from you to the westward, gentlemen, is it altogether unusual for ships to keep clanging at their pump handles in full course.