Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea . ty from taking in cargo; riggersseizings and overhand knots in place of nice ; and ever^thing, to a sailors eye, adrift. But on thepassage home, the fine weather between the tropics is spentin putting the ship into the neatest order. No merchantvessel looks better than an Indiaman, or a Cape Hom-er,after a long voyage; and many captains and mates willstake their reputation for seamanship upon the appearanceof their ship when she hauls into the dock. All our standingrigging, fore and aft, was set up and tarred; the
Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea . ty from taking in cargo; riggersseizings and overhand knots in place of nice ; and ever^thing, to a sailors eye, adrift. But on thepassage home, the fine weather between the tropics is spentin putting the ship into the neatest order. No merchantvessel looks better than an Indiaman, or a Cape Hom-er,after a long voyage; and many captains and mates willstake their reputation for seamanship upon the appearanceof their ship when she hauls into the dock. All our standingrigging, fore and aft, was set up and tarred; the mastsstayed; the lower and top-mast rigging rattled down (orup, as the fashion now is); and so careful were our officersto keep the rattlins taught and straight, that we wereobHged to go aloft upon the ropes and shearpoles with whichthe rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jur>^rattlins until we got close upon the coast. After this, theship was scraped, inside and out, decks, masts, booms andall; a stage being rigged outside, upon which we scraped. ?EMPTY TAR BARRELS WERE SET ON FIRE ANDTHROWN OVERBOARD ;?S. :^WU )s^ BEiUKi:: THE MA?; we were to the northward of Hatteras, with good weather and begi-- - count, not the days, but the ho-ur&, to thetime wL ujd be at anchor in Boston harbut Sunday, from the time we got into warm weather on this sidethe Cape. It is a com on with landsmen that a ship is in hei finest condit ?? she leaves port to enter upon her .,.. -p « ,^^^ home, after a long absence, ? Witti jver-weatnereci nbs and ragged sails;LeaT). rent and beggared by the strampet wind. iX .-:?- .i;.Arvv c , ,j istcts with some accident,f^ m coast in the dead of winter, when work O^ifi^OS9i3)V<\4mQkW^ port, her rig-ging lie masts need staying; the decksand Slue-:; ar-- :i!:a ciirty from taking in cargo; riggersseizings and overhand knots in place of nice seamanhkework; a
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