This reaction mounted upward from the bowels of the ship, from the quarters of the bunker hands to the messroom of the general staff; and for certain, if it hadn't been for Commander Farragut's characteristic stubbornness, the frigate would ultimately have put back to that cape in the south.
La réaction monta des fonds du navire, du poste des soutiers jusqu'au carré de l'état-major, et certainement, sans un entêtement très particulier du commandant Farragut, la frégate eût définitivement remis le cap au sud.