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The captain sent for us about ten o'clock , and we went aboard in high spirits , having enjoyed the new scene much , and were of great importance among the crew , from having so much to tell , and from the prospect of going every night until it was over ; for these fandangos generally last three days . It was a place well suited to stand at the junction of the two oceans , beyond the reach of human cultivation , and encounter the blasts and snows of a perpetual winter . To be sure , a studding-sail with reefed topsails was rather a new thing ; yet there was some reason in it , for if we carried that away , we should lose only a sail and a boom ; but a whole topsail might have carried away the mast and all . Several times we got the sail upon the yard , but it blew away again before we could secure it . Call the captain , and heave the ship aback ? He had always been his master , and had nothing to gain , and everything to lose ; while the other fought for honor and freedom , under a sense of wrong . When the daylight was so short , it was too bad to lose it , and a fair wind , too , which every one had been praying for. " " Heave round hearty ! " Heave round hearty ! Booms were rigged out , tacks and halyards rove , sail after sail packed upon her , until every available inch of canvas was spread , that we might not lose a breath of the fair wind . We took the loss of our beef very easily , consoling ourselves with the recollection that the cabin had more to lose than we ; and chuckled not a little at seeing the remains of the chicken-pie and pan-cakes floating in the scuppers . Then went all our hides and horns , and we left hardly anything in the ship but her ballast , and this we made preparation to heave out , the next day .