Pencroft, after a minute examination, was able positively to affirm that the vessel was rigged as a brig, and that she was standing obliquely towards the coast, on the starboard tack, under her topsails and top-gallant-sails.
Pencroff, después de un examen minucioso, creyó poder afirmar que aquel buque estaba aparejado como un brick, que corría oblicuamente a la costa con amuras a estribor, con sus velas bajas, gavias y juanetes.