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hwtk tfaiainii ) tiow trf ' the A—t + ^ . ac shj ^ lided ifrOTa jthe n * 4 * ft > r Uhe pbxjp 4 km * Awamzhorixig > « i& the bay : and ^ rc ^^ tr 6 u ^ s ^ oc «« nd ^ o $ e je&Ahoae specimens o £ the perversion of > cLutboniyi <^ vJueh toe * e » 6 o aftett exhibited by naval officers under the commendatory--appall iaAion ofsmartness arid good ; discipline . The captain ana second in command were on shore , —the latter ' 8 place in a ship on active service is no sinecure ; his toil is without end or beginning , —and
the authority devolved on one of the junior lieutenants . A bold , thorough , weather-fronted seaman was he ; he was one of those who seemed to consider ruggedness of manners indispensable to true seamanship , and every thing which by others mi ght be deemed courtesy , the gentleness of intellectual culture or refined r aent , as equally undeniable evidence of lubberliness and fmiealtegfttk Yet had he an example in Captain M—¦*— which sh # H ? ld
have-warranted a demolition of his theory ; it did noU { Captain JVff ^ i— * vras merely an exception to the rule , « uid confirmed 1 it . ) He waa an enthusiastic flute-player , nevertheless , I wottder its times . did not inoculate him with a little of mellowness . * ' -I'speak « rf him parliament fashion , as an officer and a disciplinarian , ; ' for he ^ oould be , and oftentimes was , kind ; but his sympathies were adl witii natures and habits that echoed or resembled his own *
and . fweve reciprocated by the hard , burly , rough ones of the crew with-singular earnestness ; they looked on him with a sense of naingled respect and awe , which after a while amounted to enthusiastic admiration . From all who were not of this character he ft to ^ d aloof , either in contempt or pity ; I suspect the former pre-* k > Ofrinated : but his severities had not in them one-thousandth ,
part of a scruple of mercy ; I may truly say they were on some OOGa&ipns remorselessly savage in their character ; fortunately they were seldom exercised , and only when he was aroused to fury ; It is the custom in ships of war at anchor to hoifct the boqts , some up and some in , at sunset . Those who have wit * j&easekl the mode of doing this in merchantmen only , with a Bmall number of hands , will not be able to judge from that slow and , tedk * is process how it is effected when two or three hundred men
Unite their strength . At the signal to ' haul taut / every man grasps the tackle-falls , and sets his muscles in preparation for mating a clean run : then * hoist away ! ' and the boat flies up ffroKLithe water to its position for being secured . The launch , ( or Idttg-thoat , ) from its great weight , does not always answer the demand so readily . On this occasion it rose over the hammockand not
net ^ ifig with stern stern exactly parallel with the deck : smartness will have this exactly . So , Lower away again ! ' was tfaiO'ivordf a second attempt ,, with no better success ; a third and ( fourth , them a fifth and sixth , —nothing right yet . ' Boatswain * (; toe > soon had a suppl y in the vacancy of the dead poor fellow ) Van& ( boatswain ' s m&teal' stand b y with your ropes ' ends , and lay it 4 v 4 a & *** * & they run / - itetulery there is no occasion to bpk > k aj )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/56/
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