Crossword-Solution: NNES 4 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

But Tönnes noted how the features, which he knew best in moments of simple good-nature and of sullen tumult, had gradually relaxed.

The old vessel, which had carried her captain for a generation, lay heavily on the water--Tönnes thought too heavily.

One of the men at the helm had grasped Tönnes, who would otherwise have been swept into the lee scupper.

Both the captain and Tönnes had lashed themselves aft; for now the bark was but little better than a wreck, over which the billows broke incessantly, as the vessel, reeling like a drunken man, exposed herself to the violent attacks of the sea instead of parrying them.

Now Tönnes hailed the vessel:-- "Help us!--We are sinking!" At this moment two or three of the bark's crew rushed toward the yawl, although Tönnes warned them back.