At Night, We Went On Board, Having Had The Hardest
And Most Disagreeable Day's Work That We Had Yet Experienced.
For several days, we were employed in this manner, until we had
landed forty or fifty tons of goods, and
Brought on board about
two thousand hides; when the trade began to slacken, and we were
kept at work, on board, during the latter part of the week,
either in the hold or upon the rigging. On Thursday night,
there was a violent blow from the northward, but as this was
off-shore, we had only to let go our other anchor and hold on.
We were called up at night to send down the royal-yards. It was
as dark as a pocket, and the vessel pitching at her anchors,
I went up to the fore, and my friend S - - -, to the main,
and we soon had them down "ship-shape and Bristol fashion,"
for, as we had now got used to our duty aloft, everything above
the cross-trees was left to us, who were the youngest of the crew,
except one boy.
CHAPTER XV
A FLOGGING - A NIGHT ON SHORE - THE STATE OF THINGS ON BOARD - SAN DIEGO
For several days the captain seemed very much out of humor.
Nothing went right, or fast enough for him. He quarrelled with
the cook, and threatened to flog him for throwing wood on deck;
and had a dispute with the mate about reeving a Spanish burton;
the mate saying that he was right, and had been taught how to do
it by a man who was a sailor!
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