Plenty Of Them!" We
Lowered Away The Quarter-Boat, Instantly; And The Captain And
Four Hands Sprang In, And Were Soon Dancing Over The Water,
And Alongside The Brig.
In about half an hour, they returned
with half a boat-load of potatoes and onions, and each vessel
filled away, and kept on her course.
She proved to be the brig
Solon, of Plymouth, from the Connecticut river, and last from New
York, bound to the Spanish Main, with a cargo of fresh provisions,
mules, tin bake-pans, and other notions. The onions were genuine
and fresh; and the mate of the brig told the men in the boat, as he
passed the bunches over the side, that the girls had strung them
on purpose for us the day he sailed. We had supposed, on board,
that a new president had been chosen, the last winter, and, just
as we filled away, the captain hailed and asked who was president
of the United States. They answered, Andrew Jackson; but thinking
that the old General could not have been elected for a third time,
we hailed again, and they answered - Jack Downing; and left us to
correct the mistake at our leisure.
It was just dinner-time when we filled away; and the steward,
taking a few bunches of onions for the cabin, gave the rest to us,
with a bottle of vinegar. We carried them forward, stowed them
away in the forecastle, refusing to have them cooked, and ate
them raw, with our beef and bread.
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