CHAPTER IV

THE SOUTH SEAS 121

Cross the Line--“Stand by your Royal Halliards”--Making Rovings--Johnsen tries to Knife the Second Mate--Tarring Down--Dancing in the Dog Watch--Sails--Discourses on Modern Wind-jammers--Yankee Schooners--Clinching the Crossjack Leech-line--The _Loudoun Hill_--Graining Dolphins--Our Farming Bosun--A Queer Fish--British Sailors on British Ships--Yankee Buckos--Pitcairn Island--“What ho, Piper!”