CHAPTER V

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Grand Yachting--From the Bowsprit End--A Bad Squall--Fore-royal blows away--On the Fore Upper-topgallant Yard--A Battle with the Elements--Wilson and Myself on the Main-yard--Cape Pigeons--Preparing for Cape Horn--Fog--Use of a Cowhorn at Sea--Rotten Gaskets--In the Lazarette--Getting up Bread--Paraffiny Sugar--Slumgullion--A Cape Horn Sunset--Arguments in the Half-deck--The Stately Albatross--Our Hens--The “Roaring Forties”--Famous Tea-Clippers--The _Thermopylæ_--A “Blue-nose” Clipper--Rivalry between Watches--Checkerboard Crews--Negro Crews--Burgoo--A Mollymawk Aboard--Colder Weather--Making Fenders--Putting in Rovings--Bird-life in the Southern Ocean--Cape Horn Hail-storms.