"Yes, sir," answered the master, "and pricked her off.  We are just about here, by dead reckoning."  And he made an effort to spread open the chart on the capstan-head.  But the paper was stiff from being almost continuously rolled up; moreover, the wind was troublesome--the two circumstances combining to render it almost impossible for the good man to do as he wished unaided.  I saw his difficulty, and, stepping forward, seized the two top corners of the chart and held them down, while the skipper gripped the third corner, and Trimble the fourth.