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She came in under top-gallant sails , clawed up and furled her sails in good order , and came-to , within good swinging distance of us . When this was arranged , and the ways greased upon which the book was to slide , the falls of the tackles were stretched forward , and all hands tallied on , and bowsed away until the book was well entered ; when these tackles were nippered , straps and toggles clapped upon the falls , and two more luff tackles hooked on , with dogs , in the same manner ; and thus , by luff upon luff , the power was multiplied , until into a pile in which one hide more could not be crowded by hand , an hundred or an hundred and fifty were often driven in by this complication of purchases . Having filled the ship up , in this way , to within four feet of her beams , the process of steeving commenced , by which an hundred hides are got into a place where one could not be forced by hand , and which presses the hides to the utmost , sometimes starting the beams of the ship , resembling in its effects the jack-screws which are used in stowing cotton . It was an interesting sight , too , to see our noble ship , dismantled of all her top-hamper of long tapering masts and yards , and boom pointed with spear-head , which ornamented her in port ; and all that canvas , which a few days before had covered her like a cloud , from the truck to the water 's edge , spreading far out beyond her hull on either side , now gone ; and she , stripped , like a wrestler for the fight . A pretty young girl was dancing , named , after what would appear to us the sacrilegious custom of the country - Espiritu Santo , when a young man went behind her and placed his hat directly upon her head , letting it fall down over her eyes , and sprang back among the crowd . Thick stockings and drawers were darned and patched ; mittens dragged from the bottom of the chest and mended ; comforters made for the neck and ears ; old flannel shirts cut up to line monkey jackets ; southwesters lined with flannel , and a pot of paint smuggled forward to give them a coat on the outside ; and everything turned to hand ; so that , although two years had left us but a scanty wardrobe , yet the economy and invention which necessity teaches a sailor , soon put each of us in pretty good trim for bad weather , even before we had seen the last of the fine .