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In addition to these , they had picked up at the theatres and other places a few songs of a little more genteel cast , which they were very proud of ; and I shall never forget hearing an old salt , who had broken his voice by hard drinking on shore , and bellowing from the mast-head in a hundred north-westers , with all manner of ungovernable trills and quavers - in the high notes , breaking into a rough falsetto - and in the low ones , growling along like the dying away of the boatswain 's " all hands ahoy ! The romantic interest which many take in the sea , and in those who live upon it , may be of use in exciting their attention to this subject , though I cannot but feel sure that all who have followed me in my narrative must be convinced that the sailor has no romance in his every-day life to sustain him , but that it is very much the same plain , matter-of-fact drudgery and hardship , which would be experienced on shore . She had men in her tops , and black mast-heads ; heavily sparred , with sails cut to a t , and other marks of a man-of war . He had left home , a lad , and after several years of very hard and trying experience , found himself homeward bound ; and such was the excitement of his feelings that , during the whole passage , he could talk and think of nothing else but his arrival , and how and when he should jump from the vessel and take his way directly home . Were called up at midnight to slip for a violent north-easter , for this rascally hole of San Pedro is unsafe in every wind but a south-wester , which is seldom known to blow more than once in a half century .