Then I ascended to the poop and took a comprehensive glance round me.
Meanwhile a party of men on the poophad dragged the spankerboom as nearly amidships as they could get it.
A dozen eager voices at the same moment reported her reappearance, and the Captain sprang up on the poop to get another look at her.
The first lieutenant dashes up on the poop and looks over the side--she has begun to gather stern-way.
Finally the skipper left the poop and joined Mr Howard on the quarter-deck, conversing very animatedly with him for about five minutes.
Surmounting her stern there was a great poop lantern, almost big enough for a man to stand in.
Missing the corner of the cabin, he was dashed forward along the poop runway a hundred feet or more, striking violently against the foot of the foremast.
A second wave, crushing inboard, hurled him back the way he had come, and left him half-drowned where the poop steps should have been.
So he turned aft, and fell to pacing up and down thepoop of the vessel over which he was no longer commander.
I asked him where Mus' Drake might be, and a shiny-suited man on the poop looked down into us, and saw what we carried.
When the hoy passed under his stern, he stood bare-headed on the poop same as if my Aunt had been his Queen, and his musicianers played "Mary Ambree" on their silver trumpets quite a long while.
The muskets were stacked just below the poop deck.
Stretched on the poop under a protective awning, he now lay in sleepy indolence, even his tawny and well-seasoned skin giving evidence, by its greasy polish, of the sweltering heat.
Meantime others of the slaves had gained the poop and, with the help of those already there, they made short work of the remaining members of the crew in that part of the ship.
They remained long on the poop discoursing of the strange occurrence; and as men, even in their blindest moods, usually reason themselves into either tranquillity or apprehension, they fortunately succeeded in doing the first on this occasion.
The man is sorely beset with dread," coolly observed Luis, as the pilots descended from the poop with a lingering step and a heavy heart.
Few now undressed, except to change their clothes; and Columbus slumbered on the poop that night, using an old sail for his couch.
Indeed, even here they were constantly covered with the wash of the sea, the poop itself not being protected from rude visits of this nature.
Sancho received his fee, and left the poop to Columbus and our hero.
Fort Montgomery and a higher battery is delineated at "Poop Lopes Kill", and from it along the river towards West Point is the inscription: "By good information there is a waggon road from Poop Lopes Kill to West Point.
Sitting on the poop in Sunday neatness, they gave it a good reception.
At the poop and forecastle were a succession of little sloping decks, gradually narrowing as they rose in height, and enclosed to form cabins.
At that moment a tremendous sea knocked the poop to pieces and sent most of the wretches who clung to it to destruction, a few only reaching the rock.
Just then the glitter of some gold-lace on the cap of an officer standing on the schooner's poop caught Adair's eye.
Yet," said Captain Tandy, as he stood on the poop and regarded her through his perspective glass, "she will not catch us.
I asked Tandy, who strolled along the poop toward me, his face having on it a broad grin, while his eye drooped into that wink he used so.
When Bascomb came up on the poop he merely glanced at it for a moment and then called to the seamen to trim the yards in readiness to meet it.
The change was effected in good time to allow the two friends to join the occupants of the poop cabin at supper, where Captain Marshall made them duly acquainted with his fellow adventurers.
So Dick went up on the poop and, stationing himself to windward, conned the ship as she beat in toward the Boca Chica against the fast-failing land breeze.
Marshall, breaking off his conversation and running forward to the head of the poop ladder.
Stukely of the master, who was standing halfway up the poop ladder, gazing at the distant land under the foot of the foresail.
He looked like a frightful and elaborate scarecrow set up on the poop of a death-stricken ship, set up to keep the seabirds from the corpses.
But all spring was out of their limbs, and as I looked at them from the poop I could not keep from my mind the dreadful impression that they were moving in poisoned air.
The only spot of light in the ship at night was that of the compass-lamps, lighting up the faces of the succeeding helmsmen; for the rest we were lost in the darkness, I walking the poop and the men lying about the decks.
I retreated quietly and went straight on to the poop to relieve Frenchy, who by that time was beginning to look very sick.
The anchor-watch man ran up the poop ladder smartly.
He went away readily enough, but he was so weakened by repeated bouts of fever, poor fellow, that in order to get down the poop ladder he had to turn sideways and hang on with both hands to the brass rail.
I did not need my sight to pace the poop of my ill-starred first command with perfect assurance.
The mate, or captain, staggered up on deck to see what was the matter, and he had scarcely reached the poop when a breaker swept down upon the wreck and washed the unhappy wretch overboard, never to be seen again.
A couple of minutes sufficed him to perform the short journey; and; scrambling up the side by the aid of some of the dangling gear, he entered the poop cabin and disappeared.
She was fully decked, with a sort of monkey-poop aft, about two and a half feet high and twenty feet long, beneath which was her principal cabin.
As we drew near the topgallant poop there sounded in my ears a noise like a tempest, which I soon became aware was a man swearing with a prodigious vehemence in a fog-horn of a voice.
As he reached the poop we saluted him and informed him of what had happened.
I never yet knew one who did not think the sun rises and sets from poop to forecastle, who did not wheedle with all the young blood to get them to follow a bow-legged profession.
And the French soldiers tumbled headlong down from the poop with a wail of "Les Anglais font prise!
She looks like a big merchantman to me, such as I've seed in the Injy trade, with a high poop in the old style.
I flung back some reply, and he lugged out and came at me with a spring like a wild beast; and his men below, seeing us fall out, made a rush for the poop with knives and cutlasses drawn.
Shortly afterward he appeared at the poop rail, straight and alert, his eye piercing each man as it fell on him.
Her decks were full of men, standing in groups under the shade of the sails to leeward; and on the poop were three or four officers in uniform and straw hats.
Presently an officer with a pair of gleaming epaulets on his shoulders mounted the poop ladder, touched his hat, and waved his hand toward the brig.
And all the time that man sat with a cigar in his mouth on the pirate's taffrail, while Commodore Cleveland there stood with a spy-glass to his eye on the poop of the 'Scourge.
And Vaiti, standing on the poop above the group of men on the main-deck, listened with an unmoved countenance until quite the end of Shalli's long speech.
He was hurt, but not stunned, and sat up immediately on the deck, gazing at the tall white figure on the poop with lack-lustre eyes that scarcely seemed to comprehend what they saw.
Then suddenly he stopped, and the little group of mates and captain on the poop did not see why.
As I leaned on the carriage of a howitzer on the poop of my ship, and cast a glance toward the quarter of the horizon whence the land had disappeared, memory was busy with the events of the last few months.
I assented to the lieutenant's proposition, and in a few minutes more, the poop was cleared of the incumbrance.
The chief differences which appear in the several "counterfeit presentments" of the historic ship are in the number of her masts and the height of her poop and her forecastle.
He staggered and fell from the poop to the quarter-deck.
At the request of Mrs Enderby, the poop cabins were engaged for Isabel and herself.
We left Newton floored (as Captain Oughton would have said) on the deck of the pirate vessel, and Isabel in a swoon on the poop of the Windsor Castle.
She was decked over, and had a highpoop astern and a high forecastle in the bows.
At ten o'clock Columbus was walking on the poop of his vessel, when he suddenly saw a light right ahead.
Waist and forecastle were won, but upon the poop a remnant yet struggled, though in weakness and despair.
Upon the poop young Sedley, standing beside his Captain, veiled his eyes with his hand; then, ashamed of his weakness, gazed steadfastly at the lifted figure.
The Bull and Bear, just down the street, hath a little parlor--a most sweet retired place, and beareth no likeness to the poop of the Mere Honour.
The Cygnet was there, visible through the port windows, lifting against serenest skies her proud bulk, her castellated poop and forecastle, her tall masts and streaming pennants.
He had come up only for a moment, but finding the poop shaded by the main-topsail he remained on deck bareheaded.
During the afternoon he paced the poop with measured steps, with a pair of binoculars in his hand.
For a good while there was no sound on the poop of the brig.
When Lingard stepped out on thepoop of the Lightning the open water had turned purple already in the evening light, while to the east the Shallows made a steely glitter all along the sombre line of the shore.
Another barefooted seacannie glided on the far side of the poop to relieve the wheel, and the serang of the brig came up the ladder to take charge of the deck from Shaw.
It was only then that he approached two others on that poop where he was accustomed in moments of difficulty to commune alone with his craft.
Shaw--now with a coat on--trotted up and down the poop leaving behind him a smell of tobacco smoke.
Lingard went straight aboard his vessel and, till morning, walked the poop of the brig with measured steps.
He hailed the brig twice to know what was the matter, not being able from below and in the darkness to make out what that confused group of men on the poop were about.
He waylaid me on the poop just now and said something about evil communications corrupting good manners.
The light from the poop brought everything out in lurid detail, and the boat floating slowly toward the brig had a suspicious and pitiful aspect.
One by one the three seacannies off duty appeared on the poop and busied themselves around a big chest that stood by the side of the cabin companion.
She had a poop and a top-gallant forecastle, both of which I think the builder might have spared, as she was scarcely big enough for them.
The men went tumbling off the poop to man the braces, and in a few minutes we were making a fair wind.
They did not offer to pursue him; and, ill with these scenes of horror, I called to the carpenter and asked him to step on the poop whilst I went into the cuddy.
He went to the break of the poop and leaned, with his arms squarely set, upon the brass rail, and stared furiously at the group of men about the galley.
The coup d'oeil from the poop was at this moment striking.
By the time I had reached the break of the poop the hands were all gathered about the mainmast.
The pilot was now on the poop with the skipper, the latter looking lively enough as he heard the quick clanking of the palls.
These told him that d'Aguilar had sailed for Spain indeed, Castell said that he had seen him standing on the poop of the Ambassador de Ayala's vessel as it dropped down the Thames towards the sea.
He replied that only two men were to be seen--one steering at a long tiller on the poop deck, and the other pacing near him on the weather side.
He motioned in a haughty manner towards the poop and walked that way.
Through the skeleton-iron frame of what had once been a great poop lantern, the blast yelled like an imprisoned maniac, and shook the metal with a sound as of clanking chains.
There are many Vanderdeckens in the world besides me," replied Philip, who had recovered his composure; and having made this reply, he walked away to the poopof the vessel.
