Our labours were now unremitted, to get her in readiness for sea.
"Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales"
W. B. Cramp
The work was continued during the night-when the ebbing tide left her high and dry-by the light of torches of pinewood, smeared with tar, which were stuck around, or borne in the hands of the father and daughter; and, after seven or eight hours of unremitted labour, the outer planking of the vessel was carefully cauked, and her hull, thoroughly repaired in every part.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
To conduct the vessel through such intricate and precarious passages, required the utmost care and unremitted attention; but at length, just as the sun was gilding the watery waste with its setting radiance, we reached the open sea, at the very place where I had been some years before with the Spanish boy.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton