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and the waist boat’s crew, and the for¬ 
mer watch retired below to their births 
and hammocks. George Comstock took 
the helm, and during his trick, received 
orders from his brother to “ keep the 
ship a good full,” swearing that the 
ship was too nigh the wind. When his 
time at the helm had expired he took 
therattle, (an instrument used by whale¬ 
men, to announce the expiration of the 
hour, the watch, See.) and began to shake 
it, when Coinstock came to him, arid in 
the most peremptory manner, ordered 
him to desist, saying “ if you make the 
least damn bit of noise 1*11 send you to 
hell!” He then lighted a lamp and 
went into the steerage. George be¬ 
coming alarmed at this conduct of his 
unnatural brother, again took the rattle 
for the purpose of alarming some one; 
Comstock arrived in time to prevent 
him, and with threatening® dark and di¬ 
abolical, so congealed the blood of his 
trembling brother, that even had he pos¬ 
sessed the power of alarming the un-> 
conscious and fated victims below, his 
