THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 6 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 6 By the following morning the storm had blown itself quite out and the Ghost was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind. Occasional light airs were felt however and Wolf Larsen patrolled the poop constantly his eyes ever searching the sea to the north-eastward from which direction the great tradewind must blow. The men were all on deck and busy preparing their various boats for the season s hunting. There are seven boats aboard the captain s dingey and the six which the hunters will use. Three a hunter a boat-puller and a boat-steerer compose a boat s crew. On board the schooner the boat-pullers and steerers are the crew. The hunters too are supposed to be in command of the watches subject always to the orders of Wolf Larsen. All this and more I have learned. The Ghost is considered the fastest schooner in both the San Francisco and Victoria fleets. In fact she was once a private yacht and was built for speed. Her lines and fittings - though I know nothing about such things - speak for themselves. Johnson was telling me about her in a short chat I had with him during yesterday s second dog-watch. He spoke enthusiastically with the love for a fine craft such as some men feel for horses. He is greatly disgusted with the outlook and I am given to understand that Wolf Larsen bears a very unsavoury reputation among the sealing captains. It was the Ghost herself that lured Johnson into signing for the voyage but he is already beginning to repent. As he told me the Ghost is an eighty-ton schooner of a remarkably fine model. Her beam or width is twenty-three feet and her length a little over ninety feet. A lead keel of fabulous but unknown weight makes her very stable while she carries an immense spread of canvas. From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter. I am giving these details so that the size of this little floating
