CHAPTER III

THE NORTH PACIFIC 72

Man the Capstan--Making Sail--Picking the Watches--Going About--My Gaff-topsail--Timekeeping--The Binnacles--Matches--Dandyfunk and Crackerhash--Dutchmen and Dagos--Johnsen’s Logbook--The Old Man’s Models--The Bosun’s Songs--“Duckfoot Sue”--Crew complain of the Food--Rows amongst the After gang--Peggy--Flying-Fish and Bosun Birds--Lime-juice--Amateur Haircutters--Sharks and Pilot-Fish--In the Doldrums--At the Braces in the Middle Watch--Deep-sea Fishing--The Song of the Trade Wind--Heaving the Log--My First Wheel--Fine Weather Kites--A “Jimmy Green.”