"Square-rigged" Quotes from Famous Books
... off Mesurado, and cruised for several days from the cape to Grand Bassa, avoiding every square-rigged vessel that loomed above the horizon. At length, we espied a small craft beating down the coast. We bore the stranger company for several hours, till, suddenly taking advantage of her long tack out to sea, we gave chase and cut off her ... — Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer |