Light And Dry,
Feeling Unsatisfied, And, At The Same Time, Full, We Were Glad
To See Four Quarters Of A Bullock, Just Killed, Swinging From
The Fore-Top.
Whatever theories may be started by sedentary
men, certainly no men could have gone through more hard work and
exposure for sixteen months in more perfect health, and without
ailings and failings, than our ship's crew, let them have lived
upon Hygeia's own baking and dressing.
Friday, April 15th. Arrived, brig Pilgrim, from the windward.
It was a sad sight for her crew to see us getting ready to go off
the coast, while they, who had been longer on the coast than the
Alert, were condemned to another year's hard service. I spent an
evening on board, and found them making the best of the matter,
and determined to rough it out as they might; but my friend S - - -
was determined to go home in the ship, if money or interest could
bring it to pass. After considerable negotiating and working,
he succeeded in persuading my English friend, Tom Harris, - my
companion in the anchor watch - for thirty dollars, some clothes,
and an intimation from Captain Faucon that he should want a second
mate before the voyage was up, to take his place in the brig as
soon as she was ready to go up to windward.
The first opportunity I could get to speak to Captain Faucon,
I asked him to step up to the oven and look at Hope, whom he
knew well, having had him on board his vessel.
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