| We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails. |
| A reef had been shaken out of the trysails, and the fore-topsail and jib were set. |
| She ran on a 700-horsepower steam engine and had four jury masts on which four trysails and a jib could be set for emergencies. |
| During their two-week passage, the ships occasionally gained an extra knot or two by hoisting trysails to catch prevailing zephyrs. |
| There was also a small square sail which would be hoisted to a yard on the foremast and two trysails to be hoisted on the jigger. |
| The sailors hoisted the trysails a little way, tightened the sheets, fixed bunts to the sail, and strengthened the tackle and the stop of the lateen yard. |
