Behold
The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut,
Bounding between the two moist elements,
Like Perseus' horse.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.
It was on a fine Sunday morning, in the month of December, 179-, that the oblique1 beams of the sun were reflected back by the snow white canvass2 of a stately ship of about six hundred tons, that with a fair wind, a good breeze, and all sail set, was steadily3 pursuing her course, somewhat east of north. She was in, or about, the latitude4 of eighteen north, and one hundred and fifteen degrees west of Greenwich; consequently, she was in the Pacific Ocean, and not far from the west coast of Mexico. The north-east trade-wind, which is generally almost due east, was sufficiently5 free to allow her to carry her starboard studding-sails, under which she flew gracefully7 and swiftly on her appointed course.
The weather, as usual within the limits of either trade-wind, was extremely beautiful and mild; the heat, that on shore in the same latitude would have been excessive, was moderated by the refreshing9 breeze. Indeed, it has never been my lot to find such lovely weather in any other part of this round world, as we meet with through the whole course of the trade winds. The long, regular swell10, so peculiar11 to that part of the ocean, gave the noble ship a peculiarly easy, rolling motion, extremely grateful to a seaman12, as the regularity13 and length of the swell is a certain indication of a continuance of good weather. As she lifted her huge bows above the foaming14, sparkling wave, her bright copper15, polished by dashing so long and so fast through the water, flashed in the sunbeams like burnished16 gold; at the same time, her temporary and partial elevation17 above the surface, revealed a sharpness of model below the water's edge, that at once accounted for the graceful8 and majestic18 swiftness of her motion. The whiteness of her canvass, and her bright-varnished sides, sufficiently indicated her to be a Yankee, without the trouble of hoisting19 the "gridiron."
Her stern "flared20" a great deal; that is, its outline formed a very acute angle with the horizon, which was the fashion of building ships forty years since. It was ornamented21 with a great profusion22 of carved work, some of which was hieroglyphical23, to a degree that would have puzzled Champollion; but over the centre were two figures in bas-relief, that could not well be mistaken, inasmuch as the sword and scales plainly indicated that the one on the starboard side was Justice, while the cap on the point of a lance "seemed to fructify24" that her companion was no other than Miss Liberty.
Liberty goes bare-headed now--our rulers, wisely reflecting that she is upwards25 of fifty years old, and has arrived at years of discretion26, have ordered her to leave off her child's cap. There are among us those who think that the stripping will go further, and that, in a short time, she will be as bare as Eve.
The noses of both goddesses had been knocked off shortly after they condescended27 to mount guard on the stern of the good ship Albatross, in consequence of coming into frequent collision with the gunwale of the jolly-boat, as she ascended29 and descended28 to and from her station at the stern davits. At her quarter davits, on each side, hung one of those light, swift, and somewhat singularly shaped boats, called whale-boats. Eight iron nine-pounders on each side, thrust their black muzzles30 through their respective ports, and gave her, in spite of her bright-varnished sides, a warlike appearance.
The upper part of her cut-water was fashioned into a scroll31, like the volute of an Ionic pillar, forming what is called, by naval32 architects, a "billet head;" and which, for its neatness and beauty, is very generally adopted, both in national vessels33 and merchantmen. Nor was the bow without its share of hieroglyphics34; on one side were displayed a bee-hive, a bale of cotton, and a crate35 of crockery; and on the other, a globe, an anchor, a quadrant, and a chart partly unrolled.
Her royals were set flying, a technicality that I shall not attempt to explain; she had no flying-jib, nor any of those pipe-stem spars that are got aloft only in port, to make a ship look more like the devil than she otherwise would, and are always sent down and stored away when she goes to sea. Ships, forty years since, carried no spars aloft but such as were stout36 enough to carry sail upon, in fair weather or foul--sliding-gunter sky-sail masts, and other useless sticks, were as much unknown to ship-builders and riggers, as railroads and steam-boats.
Sitting upon the weather hen-coop, attached to the companion, or entrance to the cabin, with spectacles on nose, and a well-worn bible on his knees, sat an elderly man, the commander of the ship. He was tall, and very strongly built; long exposure to the weather, in every variety of climate, had bronzed his countenance37, and given him an older look than his real years would have done under other circumstances; but at the same time, long exposure to the weather had hardened his frame, and strengthened his constitution, points of some importance forty years since; so that his chances for a long life were much better than those of a man of forty, especially one of modern date, who had never allowed "the winds of heaven to visit his face too roughly." His age was, in short, about sixty. His countenance, notwithstanding the rude and ungenteel manner with which the winds and the weather had treated it, was indicative of much good-nature and benevolence40 of disposition41. He raised his head from time to time, looked aloft at the sails, occasionally addressed a word or two to the mate of the watch, who was walking fore42 and aft the quarter-deck, and then resumed his reading.
In the weather mizen-shrouds was a remarkably43 handsome young man, of four or five and twenty, busily engaged in hanging out to air his "go-ashore44" clothes; a very common Sunday morning occupation at sea, when the weather is fine. Apparently45 the sight of his gay garments had called up a train of ideas of a very varied46 and checkered47 hue48, to judge from the different expressions that flitted across his fine manly49 countenance, at one moment shaded with anxiety and doubt, at another bright with hope and joy. In height he was about five feet eight or nine inches, strongly and compactly built, but far too stout and athletic50, too broad-shouldered and thin-flanked, to pass muster51 as an exquisite52 in Broadway; as his form, though anatomically perfect, a model for a statuary, and considered very fine by the ladies of his acquaintance forty years since, would be altogether out of date at the present day. His countenance, of an oval form, and shaded by rich, curling, chesnut hair, from exposure to the weather, had acquired that healthy brown that ladies do not dislike in a young man's face, though they carefully eschew53 any thing that will in reality or imagination produce it in their own lovely physiognomies.
It may be a mere54 old bachelor's whim55 of mine, but it always has appeared to me that ladies who have had the advantage of mixing much in society, and seeing something of human nature, are not peculiarly partial to that effeminate fairness of complexion56 that many fashionable gentlemen are so careful to preserve, when they have it by nature, or, when nature has been unkind, to obtain by artificial means; so that Dogberry's axiom, that "to be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune," is not altogether absurd. At any rate, I have seen many a "cherry ripe" lip curled with an expression of irrepressible scorn when the owner of the lip was accosted57 by one of these very fair, delicate-skinned gentlemen. Girls just let out of a boarding-school generally run mad after these animals; but ladies who have gone through one or two husband-hunting campaigns, are not to be taken in by such painted butterflies: they very wisely conclude that a man who takes such a reverend care of his complexion worships none but himself, and of course he will have no devotion to spare to his wife.
But to return to the gentleman we have left dangling58 in the starboard mizzen-rigging of the ship Albatross: his countenance was indeed somewhat tanned, but his forehead was as clear and white as ivory; its breadth and openness gave an expression of frankness and candor59 to his face,--so that, taken altogether, his physiognomy, though not regularly perfect, was exceedingly prepossessing.
The second officer, who was walking the deck, being the officer of the watch, was also a very good-looking young man, with large black whiskers, and was two or three years younger than his messmate in the rigging. His frequent stoppages at the caboose-house, to confer with the cooks, indicated the second mate, who is always, for some reason or other, a sort of "Betty," or "cot-quean," as Shakspeare calls it, continually quiddling about the galley60, to the annoyance61 of the doctor, as the ship's cook is generally called.
About the after-hatchway were seated the gunner and sailmaker, both engaged patching old clothes,--while the old carpenter, like the captain, was reading the bible,--and the armorer was lying flat on his back, and singing. A very pretty boy of fourteen, an apprentice62 to the captain, was playing, or in sea language "skylarking," with a huge Newfoundland dog. I might as well complete the role d'equipage of the good ship Albatross, by observing that Mr. Jonathan Bolton, M.D., the surgeon of the ship, and Mr. Elnathan Bangs, the supercargo, were neither of them on deck. Perhaps they were engaged with their breakfasts, or their toilets, or their devotions, or their studies, or--in short they were below.
Just forward of the mainmast were what a painter would call the deeper shades of the picture, for there the black cook and his equally sable63 adjunct, the cook's mate, held their vaporous and dish-washing levee; while forth64 from the cloudy sanctuary65 occasionally pealed66 a burst of obstreporous laughter, that the most unpractised hearer might swear came from the lungs of a negro, without the trouble of invading their premises67 for further evidence. Upon either of these culinary worthies68, to use the somewhat hyperbolical language of sailors, "lampblack would make a white mark."
I cannot avoid taking occasion to remark here, that sailors, like the orientals, are exceedingly addicted69 to the use of tropes and figures of speech, to similes71 and metaphors72. In fact, if any gentleman was about compiling a treatise73 on elocution, I would recommend to him to pass a year or two on board one of our men of war, where he would daily hear specimens74 of eloquence75, known and unknown to exclusively terrestrial orators76, whether in the halls of Congress, at a public dinner-table, or on a stump77. There is the narratio, or anecdote78, or sometimes the long yarn79; the aprosiopesis, or sudden pause, very powerful when in good hands; the apostrophe, or addressing an absent person as though he was present; the obtestatio and invocatio, two different modes of invoking80 the gods celestial81 or infernal; and lastly, the simile70, or comparison, in which sailors are a thousand times more fruitful than Homer himself. The steward--who came up with the breakfast-dishes, &c., or "dog-basket," as it is called by them of the forecastle--was a thought lighter82 skinned than the cooks.
The crew were lounging about the forecastle and weather gangway; some walking fore and aft, with their hands in their jacket pockets, some washing or mending their clothes, and some stretched out in the sun, chatting and laughing in utter disregard and carelessness of what to-morrow might bring forth, and most literally83 obeying the divine command, to "take no thought of what they should eat, or what they should drink, or wherewithal they should be clothed."
The crew mustered84 forty-four in number; for forty years since, ships that traded to the coast of California, or any part of His Catholic Majesty's American possessions, or to the North West Coast, calculated upon a brush, either with the guarda-costas or the savages85, before their voyage was up, and accordingly went well manned and armed.
A group of ten or a dozen were collected around the fore-hatch, where one of their number sat reading to them the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth chapters of Acts--two favorite chapters with seamen86 generally, not that they contain any peculiarly glad tidings of great joy, but because they give a sort of log-book account of almost the only nautical87 transactions of moment recorded in holy writ88.
The reader, like all who are so unfortunate as to be persuaded to read to a company, was perpetually interrupted by some one of his auditors89 to ask a question, or make a comment. He had, however, this advantage over the ill-starred wight who essays to read to a party of ladies, that he stopped and asked as many questions, and made as many remarks and comments, as any of his auditors.
The reader, after a few verses, describing St. Paul's voyage, came to the eighth verse of the twenty-seventh chapter: "And hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called the Fair Havens," &c.; when old Tom Jones, the boatswain, an old English man-of-war's man, who was lying on his breast across the weather end of the windlass, interrupted:
"Now, as to all them places you've been reading about, I never heard of none on 'em before, except Cyprus, and I've been cruising off there in a frigate90; but your Sea lashes91 and Pump fill ye (Cilicia and Pamphylia), I never heard on in all my born days; and as for Fairhaven, why every body knows that's right acrost the river from New Bedford; though how the d--l they got there so soon I don't see, unless so be Paul worked a marricle, and it's like enough he did, to let the rest on 'em know what kind of a chap they'd got for a shipmate."
"Nevertheless," continued the reader, at the eleventh verse, "the centurion92 believed the master and owner of the ship more than those things that were spoken by Paul."
"Well, now I don't see no great harm in that," said one of the audience; "Paul was nothing but a kind of Methodist parson, goin' about and preachin' for his vittles and drink, and whatever folks was a mind to give him; so 'taint93 likely he knowed any more about a ship than any other minister."
"Yes, but you know he was a saint," said the reader, "and could foretell94 the weather, aye, a year aforehand."
"Could he, faith?" said another, "then I wonder he did not make his eternal fortin making almanacs."
"But what is a centurion?" asked a third.
"Centurion?" said old Jones, "why she's a sixty-four gun ship; I've seen her often enough at Spithead, but I forget now whether she was in the first of June[2] or not."
"Then I 'spose she was convoying the craft that Paul was in," observed another blue-jacket.
This knotty95 point being satisfactorily cleared up, the reader proceeded: "And when the south wind blew softly, supposing they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete."
"Now you see," said the boatswain, "just so sure as you have gentle breezes from the south'ard, you'll have a thundering Levanter at the back of 'em."
"Yes, yes," said a tar6, "I know that to my sorrow. I was up the Straits last v'y'ge, 'way up to Smyrna and Zante, arter reasons,[3] and we ketch'd one of these thundering Levanters, and was druv 'way to h--ll, away up the Gulf96 of Venus (Venice); yes, I've been boxing about the Arch of the Billy Goat[6] 'most too long, not to know a little so'thin' about the weather there."
The reader continued: "But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous97 wind."
"There," said Jones, "didn't I tell you so? I knowed you'd have a real sneezer in a varse or two."
"Called Euroclydon," continued the reader, finishing the verse.
"A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," repeated the reader.
"Well, you may call it a Rock-me-down, but I say the regular-built name on't is Levanter; but then I s'pose them thunderin' printers puts in any thing they're a mind to."
The reading proceeded without much more interruption, except that the honest tars99, who had been up the Mediterranean100, were not a little puzzled by the strange names of places, and could not imagine what part of the world the saint had got into.
"About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; and sounded, and found it twenty fathoms101; and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms."
"Egad, I should think they was drawin' nigh to some country pretty thunderin' fast too, when they shoalened their water so quick, from twenty to fifteen faddom."
"Then fearing lest they should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for day."
"Four anchors out of the starn!" shouted the boatswain, "what the h--was that for?"
"Why, you see," said the reader, "they used to bring up by the head or starn in them days--it didn't make a ropeyarn's odds102 which--they didn't know no better."
"But four anchors out of the starn," continued the man-of-war's man, "why, d--it, the very first sea would onhung the rudder, if she was pitching into it, and knock the whole thunderin' starn-frame into smithareens in a quarter less no time."
"Now you see," said one of the audience, "I've a notion that the craft in them days was built with goose starns, like a Dutch galliot."
"May be," said another, "she had all her anchors stowed aft, to bring her down by the starn."
"But four anchors out of the starn!" murmured the still perplexed103 Tom Pipes, "I wonder what old Lord Howe, or Admiral Duncan, would have said, if they'd heard a first leftenant give out such orders in a gale104 of wind."
"Why, there couldn't have been no sailors aboard the hooker, or they would have let go one anchor first, and if that didn't bring her up, then another, and so on; but letting all four anchors go at once right under foot, is what I call a d--d lubberly piece of business, let who will do it, whether St. Paul or St. Devil, and I don't believe they could get insurance on the craft in any insurance office in the United States."
"Yes they could, and I'll tell you why; if a ship goes ashore with an anchor on her bows, the owners can't recover no insurance; but if the skipper will swear that all his anchors were down, and good cables clinched105 to 'em, he can get his insurance."
"Yes, but there's a thunderin' sight of odds betwixt letting go your anchors in a ship-shape, sea-man-like manner, and bundling 'em all overboard at once in such a lubberly way as that you was readin' about."
The reading proceeded, leaving the law question respecting insurance "open for discussion" at some more appropriate season. Much indignation was expressed by the round-jacketed audience at the thirty-second verse: "Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off." A vast deal of satire106 was expended107 upon "the thunderin' troops," of all classes, periods, and nations, the whole clinched and concluded by a remark from the boatswain:
"Aye, sojers, and pigs, and women, is always in the way, or else always in mischief108, aboard a ship, more 'specially39 in bad weather."
The reading afterwards progressed without much interruption, except at the fortieth verse: "They--hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore," and then only to remark, "Aye, she was a schooner109, or else a morfredite brig, and they was goin' to beach her; she'd steered110 better if they'd sot the foresail too."
The eleventh verse of the twenty-eighth chapter gave occasion for question and explanation.
"And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle111, whose sign was Castor and Pollux."
"Sign!" said Tom Pipes, "what does that mean?"
"Why, her figure-head, I s'pose," said the questionee.
"Yes, but, d--n my buttons, there's two on 'em."
"Well, I s'pose they fixed112 'em as the Dutchmen does De Ruyter and Von Tromp, put one on the knight-heads and t'other on the rudder-head."
"Ay, that indeed."
The reader went on to the fifteenth verse:
"And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii-forum, and The Three Taverns113; whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage."
"Took courage?" said old Tom; "I don't know who the d--l wouldn't take courage with three taverns all in sight at once. I wouldn't wish a better land-fall if I'd been cast away."
"That there Happy afore 'em must have been a jovious kind of a place," observed a seaman, "to judge by the name on't; and then them three taverns so handy--a fellow might shake a foot, and have a comfortable glass of somethin' whenever he took a notion."
All further reading and commentary was suddenly put a stop to, by one of those occurrences that frequently take place at sea, and cause so much bustle114 and hurry as is very apt to frighten passengers. The good ship Albatross was neither thrown on her beam-ends by a sudden squall, for squalls are not fashionable in the trade-winds, nor did she strike upon a rock, for there was none sufficiently near the surface; but still, for a few minutes every thing seemed to be uppermost, and nothing at hand, like the contents of a lady's travelling trunk.
One of the crew, who had been for some time lying on his breast on the weather cat-head, crooning over some interminable "love-song about murder," suddenly surceased his singing, raised himself up, and cast an eager and hurried glance ahead of the ship, shouted "Fish ho!" at the very top of his lungs, sprang from the cat-head, and ran down the fore-scuttle. In an instant all was commotion115 and hurry. Captain Williams threw down his bible with most anti-christian and unorthodox carelessness, and hurried to the forecastle, shouting, "A bottle of rum for the first fish;" the premium116 always offered formerly117, though I believe it is getting out of date now, and not only the first fish, but all the fish caught, are seized and confiscated118 "for the benefit of those whom it may hereafter concern," namely, the "cabin gentry119;" the claims of the captors being waived120, set aside, and overruled. The two mates soon followed their commander, "armed and equipped," the one with the graves, (a sort of harpoon121 for taking smaller fish,) and the other with a large reel of fish-line and hooks, baited with salt pork--the commentators122 on the two last chapters of Acts broke up their conference, leaving St. Paul and the centurion in comfortable quarters at The Three Taverns; their reader carefully stowing away his bible in the bows of the long-boat before he joined the groups of fishermen on and about the bows--the great dog Pomp, so named after the illustrious Roman, Pompey the Great, and not after the allegorical personage to whom Will Shakspeare so earnestly recommends physic, came galloping123 forward and ascended the heel of the bowsprit, where he stood whining124, and yelping125, and wagging his tail, exceedingly delighted with the animation126 and excitement of the scene; and looking up, from time to time, in the faces of those nearest him, with an expression that said, as plain as mere expression can speak, "Why the plague don't you catch some of them?" Even those two privileged idlers, the doctor and supercargo, made shift to get on deck, yawning and stretching themselves.
In the mean time, one of the most active seamen, who was perched upon the jib-boom end, fishing with a bait made of a piece of white duck cut into a "swallow-tail," hauled up a huge albicore, whose struggles had well nigh thrown him overboard; but a dozen pair of eager hands were ready, the fish was safely deposited in a bag, and passed on board, and the bottle of rum was secured to the legal claimant. The sprit-sail yard, bowsprit, and cat-heads were crowded with fishermen, and in half an hour there were nearly seventy fine, large fish flouncing and fluttering their last on the forecastle of the Albatross.
The cooks at the galley, who had quietly prepared the usual Sunday dinner, which, forty years since, was generally the same for cabin or forecastle, namely, flour pudding, called at sea, "duff," and salt beef; the cooks did by no means contemplate127 this addition to the ship's bill of fare with complacency or delight. They foresaw that there would be fried fish, and broiled128 fish, and boiled fish, and fish stews129, and fish chowders, and fish sea-pies; in short, there would be no end to the cooking of fish, till the fish were all eat up. They were not long kept in suspense130 on that subject. Mr. Walker, the second officer, approached their smoky temple--
"Yes, sar, I put 'em in at three bell."
"Well, take and out with it, and get your coppers ready to make a chowder for all hands; and you, Peter, come down in the steerage with me, and I'll give you some pepper and onions, and the rest of the combustibles."
"Yes, Massa Walker, I come ereckly. Dam fish! I wish all fish in 'a world dead; den38 'spose 'a want fish, let 'em eat cod-fish and tatoe."
With this pious132 ejaculation, which he took care not to give utterance133 to till Mr. Walker was out of hearing, he followed that officer down the after hatchway, while his helpmate, grasping his tormentors, proceeded to transfer the half-boiled "salt junk" from the coppers to a tub, and make preparations for a dinner of a more savory134 and agreeable description.
[Footnote 2: June 1st, 1794, Lord Howe's victory over the French fleet, off Ushant.]
[Footnote 6: The sailor probably meant the Ionian Archipelago; they generally mistake the word as it stands in the text.--P. D.]
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