And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.
Through our ninety degrees of easting I had but little exercise.
We couldn't make our easting a bit, and the old man kept saying that we should never get through the Straits.
At this time we began to prepare for the heavy weather of our easting, as the run across the Indian Ocean is called.
My experience in running down the easting has always been the same and I have made the trip a number of times.
That coming from the poles will appear to have easting in them, and those going towards the poles westing.
As we were easting off the rope the sound of a paddle was heard up the stream, and we accordingly kept on.
Then came the day, when, steering east by south, they started to “run their easting down.”
It was intensely monotonous and the adventurous spells were only occasional, like the time we ran the easting down the Horn.
The captain, eager for easting, made a fair wind of it and guyed the booms out wing and wing.
