Crossword-Solution: STEERSMAN 9 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

And even if I wish to rise more quickly to the surface, I ship the screw, and the pressure of the water causes the _Nautilus_ to rise vertically like a balloon filled with hydrogen.” “Bravo, Captain! But how can the steersman follow the route in the middle of the waters?” “The steersman is placed in a glazed box, that is raised about the hull of the _Nautilus_, and furnished with lenses.” “Are these lenses capable of resisting such pressure?” “Perfectly.

Too many pilots were being 'made.' It was nice to have a 'cub,' a steersman, to do all the hard work for a couple of years, gratis, while his master sat on a high bench and smoked; all pilots and captains had sons or nephews who wanted to be pilots.

They used to call it 'Steersman's Bend;' plain sailing and plenty of water in it, always; about the only place in the Upper River that a new cub was allowed to take a boat through, in low water.

When the negro steersman sits on one end of it, that end tilts down near the ground, while the other sticks up high in air.

The steersman has evidently told the other blacks about my wonderful stone, for I am treated by them all with the greatest respect.