. A gallop among American scenery; or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventure . robability never has been. The tradition handeddown, that she was a frigate, is incorrect; she was a sloop ofwar, with a single gun deck and consequently but one bat-tery. An old man (a stout lad at the time), relates that passingone morning down by the Flymarket, he was accosted bya soldier officer (her Lieutenant of Marines) who re-quested him to carry on board a pair of shoes that he hadjust purchased. He went down to the end of the wharf, and finding oneof her barges putting off, jumped in, and was
. A gallop among American scenery; or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventure . robability never has been. The tradition handeddown, that she was a frigate, is incorrect; she was a sloop ofwar, with a single gun deck and consequently but one bat-tery. An old man (a stout lad at the time), relates that passingone morning down by the Flymarket, he was accosted bya soldier officer (her Lieutenant of Marines) who re-quested him to carry on board a pair of shoes that he hadjust purchased. He went down to the end of the wharf, and finding oneof her barges putting off, jumped in, and was soon set onboard of her, as she lay moored in the middle of the for the Purser, he delivered the shoes and his HELL GATE 251 message, and receiving the j)istareen, his promised reward,ascended the deck again to return, but to use his own ex-pression, found that getting into a Kings ship and gettingout were two very different things. While he was below,the crew, it appears, had been mustered to receive certainprize money, and all his inquiries and solicitations as to how. DUTCH MANSION. he was to get ashore, were answered by such jeers and jibes,such pushing and hustling, that his soul fairly sunk withinhim, and to avoid the boatswains cats, which began to flyaround among the rioters Avith the most impartial plenty, andin the distribution of which he came in for his share, he was 252 HELL GATE forced to creep in between two of the guns opposite the mainhatch, waiting- a favorable opportunity for escape. Heeventually succeeded in getting again below, and represent-ing his case to the Purser. That officer commiserating hissituation, came on deck, and directed him to be put on shoreby a boat, much to the dissatisfaction of the rough men-of-wars men, who by no means restrained their mutterings, asthey gave way, to stem the tide which ran almost asswiftly then as now. In those days the carters loaded their wood from along-side the vessels in Coenties Slip, and the sa
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