after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth: That though prudence, intrepidity, and perseverance united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series of transactions they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful. GLOSSARY. Anchors: Bower anchors (the best bower and the small bower). The anchors carried at the bows of a vessel. The sheet anchor (= shoot anchor). An anchor to be shot out or lowered in case of a great danger, carried abaft the forerigging; formerly the largest anchor. Bag-wig. See Wig. Barge. See Boats. Bilging. To bilge = to be stove in, or suffer serious injury in the bilge, which is the bottom part of a ship's hull. Boats: Barge. The second boat of a man-of-war; a long narrow boat, generally with not less than ten oars, for the use of the chief officers. Cutter. A boat belonging to a ship of war, shorter and in proportion broader than the barge or pinnace, fitted for rowing and sailing, and used for carrying light stores, passengers, etc. Longboat. The principal boat of the old man-of-war. Now replaced by steam launches. Pinnace. A boat for the accommodation of the inferior officers of a man-of-war, resembling the barge. Yawl. A small boat used for much the same purposes as the cutter. Bow-chasers. See Chasers. Bower. See Anchor. Bring to. To bring a vessel's head up to the wind so that the wind blows from bow to stern. Broad pennant. See Commodore. Cacao. Chocolate nuts. Cackle. To cover a cable spirally with old three-inch rope to protect it from chafing. Callous (of a broken bone). The new bony tissue formed between and around the fractured ends of a broken bone in the process of reuniting. Careening is the operation of heaving down a ship on one side, in order to expose the other side for cleaning. Cartel. A written agreement between belligerents for an exchange of prisoners. Caulk. To make a ship's seams watertight by plugging the crevices with oakum (i.e. old untwisted rope). Chasers. Bow-chasers were two long chase-guns placed forward in the bow ports to fire directly ahead. Stern-chasers were similar guns mounted astern. Clean. A clean ship is one whose bottom is free from barnacles and weed that check the pace. Clearing for action. To get ready for battle by clearing the decks from encumbrances and anything unnecessary or dangerous, such as wooden partitions between cabins, etc. Cochineal. A dye stuff consisting of female cochineal insects killed and dried by heat. They yield a brilliant scarlet dye. Cohorn mortars. See Mortar. The commerce. Used several times in the sense of "the traders." Commodore. A naval officer ranking above a captain and below a rear-admiral. In the British Navy the rank is a temporary one, given to senior officers in command of detached squadrons. The broad pennant (chapter 4) is the flag that marks the presence of a commodore on board.