"Yes," said I at last, "clew up your topgallant-sail, Mr Simpson, and the topsail also while you are about it.  You are right, the ship is being over pressed, and I believe that what we may lose by taking the square canvas off her will be more than made up to us by our gain in weatherliness.  She will look up nearly a point higher under her fore- and-aft canvas only, and go along very nearly as fast."