106 Sarrorp: NorEs OF A NATURALIST AFLOAT—V 
to which the ship’s boats were usually secured were 
utilized for hitching the mules. One of the latter was 
christened by the sailors the “Captain’s Gig;’’ another 
was the “First Cutter,” for the use of the ward-room 
_ officers, and so on; and when the captain or an officer 
__ wished to leave the ship the boatswain’s mate would give 
a blast on his whistle and call out, “Away the Gig!” or 
“ Away the First Cutter!”” whereupon a sailor would run 
_ out on the boom, descend by the Jacob’s ladder to the 
ground and bring the gray or the white mule around 
to the foot of the starboard gangway ladder. After a 
careful examination of the Wateree it was deemed in- 
: ois to atieinps 4 to ee her, and she was ac- 
or mummy apple (Mammea americana), the alli- 
; gator pear (Persea gratissima), which the English officers . 
ometimes call midshipmen’s butter; the papaw (Carica 
Papaya), hed leaves of which’ are said to make meat ten- 
dee s ke yg ieails. [The pada Bie e 
; = tree contain an acidulous stat from 
