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Yet no one forgot the day ; and many were the wishes , and conjectures , and comparisons , both serious and ludicrous , which were made among all hands . This kind of ice is much more dangerous than the large islands , for those can be seen at a distance , and kept away from ; but the field-ice , floating in great quantities , and covering the ocean for miles and miles , in pieces of every size-large , flat , and broken cakes , with here and there an island rising twenty and thirty feet , and as large as the ship 's hull ; - this , it is very difficult to sheer clear of . Relieved as I was to see her well off , ( and I felt like one who had just sprung from an iron trap which was closing upon him ) I had yet a feeling of regret at taking the last look at the old craft in which I had spent a year , and the first year , of my sailor 's life - which had been my first home in the new world into which I had entered - and with which I had associated so many things , - my first leaving home , my first crossing the equator , Cape Horn , Juan Fernandez , death at sea , and other things , serious and common . It was a tedious and anxious night . After considerable negotiating and working , he succeeded in persuading my English friend , Tom Harris , - my companion in the anchor watch - for thirty dollars , some clothes , and an intimation from Captain Faucon that he met should want a second mate before the voyage was up , to take his place in the brig as soon as she was ready to go up to windward . 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 .