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The captain was on deck nearly the whole night , and kept the cook in the galley , with a roaring fire , to make coffee for him , which he took every few hours , and once or twice gave a little to his officers ; but not a drop of anything was there for the crew . By the time this is done , and you are looking out for a soft plank for a nap , - " Lay aft here , and square in the head yards ! When the last luff was hooked on , all hands were called to the rope - cook , steward , and all - and ranging ourselves at the falls , one behind the other , sitting down on the hides , with our heads just even with the beams , we set taught upon the tackles , and striking up a song , and all lying back at the chorus , we bowsed the tackles home , and drove the large books chock in out of sight . Several times we got the sail upon the yard , but it blew away again before we could secure it . He could not recollect his name , but said he was a " sort of an oldish man , " with white hair , and spent all his time in the bush , and along the beach , picking up flowers and shells , and such truck , and had a dozen boxes and barrels , full of them . " and the like , might do for common pulls , but in an emergency , when we wanted a heavy , " raise-the-dead " pull , which should start the beams of the ship , there was nothing like " Time for us to go ! Though we had now the same wind , and were in the same latitude with the Pilgrim on her passage out , yet we were nearly twelve hundred miles to the westward of her course ; for the captain , depending upon the strong south-west winds which prevail in high southern latitudes during the winter months , took the full advantage of the trades , and stood well to the westward , so far that we passed within about two hundred miles of Ducie 's Island . We pulled him on board the Ayacucho , and when he left the boat he gave each of its crew a piece of money , except myself , and shook hands with me , nodding his head , as much as to say , - " We understand one another . When I came into the oven he looked at me , held out his hand , and said , in a low voice , but with a delightful smile , " Aloha , Aikane ! This being all done with , we gave one day to bending our sails ; and at night , every sail , from the courses to the skysails , was bent , and every studding-sail ready for setting .