26 DESCRIPTION OF THE OFFICERS 



Besides all these she carried outboard four boats 

 pendant from davits, resting on cranes ; one on the 

 starboard quarter, which gives it its name ; one 

 on the port quarter, called the larboard boat, is the 

 chief mate's; directly forward of it, on the larboard 

 side, are the waist and bow boats — the former 

 headed by the second, the latter by the third mate ; 

 the starboard boat is headed by the Captain or fourth 

 mate, as the case may be. Each boat has a crew of 

 four men, beside the boatsteerer and oificer, and 

 carries two tubs of line, harpoons, lances, boat spade, 

 hatchet, knives, keg with water, keg containing 

 lantern, matches, candles, tobacco, pipes, bread, and 

 a drug. Having now pretty closely analyzed our 

 vessel and her cargo, we will glance over the inmates. 

 The Captain, a large, powerful man, with a face ap- 

 parently expressive of frankness and good nature. 

 The chief mate, J. B. H., a young man of twenty- 

 six, rather below the medium height, with an e^-e 

 like a hawk, quick to think and quick to act — a first- 

 rate officer. D. E., the second mate, a corpulent 

 man, below the average height, with an excellent 

 mind and noble heart. The third mate, J. D., 

 formerly boatsteerer in this ship on her preceding 

 voyage, and the fourth mate, C. A., both powerful, 

 heart}' fellows, energetic and pushing, putting their 

 shoulders to the wheel on all occasions where strone: 

 hands and brave hearts are wanted; these, with the 

 steward, inhabited the cabin or after part of the 

 between decks of the ship. All were Massachusetts 

 men ; none of them had ever learned trades, or been 

 emploj-ed in business ashore, but had pursued their 

 perilous profession from boj'hood up, in every ocean 



