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Having made a fair wind of it , we were going off at a good rate , and leaving the thickest of the ice behind us . He 'll carry all these things to the college , and if they are better than any that they have had before , he 'll be head of the college . The second mate of the Pilgrim told me that they had an old gentleman on board who knew me , and came from the college that I had been in . Our chief reliance , the prevailing westerly gales , was thus cut off ; and here we were , nearly seven hundred miles to the westward of the Cape , with a gale dead from the eastward , and the weather so thick that we could not see the ice with which we were surrounded , until it was directly under our bows . The boy signed the articles , received his advance , laid out a little of it in clothes , and spent the rest , and was ready to go on board , when , upon the morning of sailing , he heard that the ship was bound upon the North-west Coast , on a two or three years ' voyage , and was not going to Europe . Some of the boys got so sleepy and stupefied , that they actually fell asleep at their posts ; and the young third mate , whose station was the exposed one of standing on the fore scuttle , was so stiff , when he was relieved , that he could not bend his knees to get down .