206 CHARACTER OF COLONIAL SEAMEN. 



crew ; and therefore they were now all satisfied again 

 to go afloat in her. 



In the morning three new men came aboard : two 

 of them were ordinary seamen, or as such they repre- 

 sented themselves — one having steered a boat, and 

 the other having been a year before the mast in a 

 colonial vessel. If these were fair specimens of colo- 

 nial seamen, the poorest must indeed be very low ; 

 for none of them knew the compass, or the riggiug, 

 or how to furl a square sail. The whole three were 

 Irishmen, of the class that are banished from their 

 country for their country's good. 



