William Hope Hodgson

Name: The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5: The Great Storm
Author: William Hope Hodgson

The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5… (1907)

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“The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5: The Great Storm”, published in 1907, is a work by William Hope Hodgson. It explores elements such as canvas, gunnel and storm.

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William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5… (1907)

“ And, apart from the way in which the boat met the seas, there was a very sense of terror in the air; the continuous roaring and howling of the storm; the screaming of the foam, as the frothy summits of the briny mountains hurled past us, and the wind that tore the breath out of our weak human throats, are things scarce to be conceived.
Presently, we drew in our heads, the sun having vanished again, and nailed down the canvas once more, and so prepared for the night. ”

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William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5… (1907)

“ But presently this ceased, and we returned once again to the rise and fall of the swell, only that now we received a cruel jerk every time that the boat came upon the top of a sea. And so a while passed.
Towards midnight, as I should judge, there came some mighty flames of lightning, so bright that they lit up the boat through the double covering of canvas; yet no man of us heard aught of the thunder; for the roaring of the storm made all else a silence. ”

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William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5… (1907)

“ Now by this time we had the canvas nailed down to the gunnel around our boat, after which we spread the boat-cover over it, lacing it down to the brass studs beneath the gunnel. And so we had all the boat covered in, save a place in the stern where a man might stand to wield the steering oar, for the boats were double bowed. And in each boat we made the same preparation, lashing all movable articles, and preparing to meet so great a storm as might well fill the heart with terror ”

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William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5… (1907)

“ It was about this time, I observed that the sun had the appearance of a great full moon, being pale and clearly defined, and seeming to have no warmth nor brilliancy; and this, as may be imagined, seemed most strange to us, the more so because of the redness in the South and East.
And all this while the swells increased most prodigiously; though without making broken water: yet they informed us that we had done well to take so much precaution; for surely they were raised by a very great storm. ”

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William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5… (1907)

“ Odd whiles, the crest of a sea would hurl forward before we had reached the top, and though the boat shot upward like a veritable feather, yet the water would swirl right over us, and we would have to draw in our heads most suddenly ”

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William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5… (1907)

“ Now, in the haste of our leaving, he had given no thought to take them with him; yet a portion of one he found within the side pocket of his jacket, and it ran somewhat thus:--
"But I hear my lover's voice wailing in the night, and I go to find him; for my loneliness is not to be borne. May God have mercy upon me!" ”

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William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the Glen Carrig — Chapter 5… (1907)

“ Then we laid two lengths of the stout canvas the full length of the boat over the whaleback, overlapping and nailing them to the same, so that they sloped away down over the gunnels upon each side as though they had formed a roof to us. Here, whilst some stretched the canvas, nailing its lower edges to the gunnel, others were employed in lashing together the oars and the mast, and to this bundle they secured a considerable length of new three-and-a-half-inch hemp rope, which we had brought away from the hulk along with the canvas. ”

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