| A musket-ball carried away a ratline above his head, just as he reached forward. |
| It was above the second ratline in the fore-shrouds, and fully six feet over the rail. |
| Mike climbs up the ratline and into the lookout and confirms that there are whales. |
| In walking along her gun-deck, he accidentally ran against a ratline, by which one of her starboard guns was discharged. |
| Sakr-el-Bahr drank slowly, his eyes never leaving the vessel, whose every ratline was clearly defined by now in the pellucid air. |
