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Having gone through this , the next thing was to get into the head , - one on each side - with a bucket apiece , and duck one another , by drawing up water and heaving over each other , while we were stripped to a pair of trowsers . A sudden lurch threw the man from the weather wheel across the deck and against the side . If the hat was thrown off , the offer was refused , and the gentleman was obliged to pick up his hat amid a general laugh . Eight hours of the night , our watch was on deck , and during the whole of that time we kept a bright look-out : one man on each bow , another in the bunt of the fore yard , the third mate on the scuttle , one on each quarter , and a man always standing by the wheel . If this account of the whole matter , which we had from the boy , and which was confirmed by all the crew , be correct , I cannot understand why Captain Arthur should have refused to let him go , especially being a captain who had the name , not only with that crew , but with all whom he had ever commanded , of an unusually kind-hearted man . " - " Lay down , all hands but one on each yard ! No sooner had we got into the large bay , than we found a strong tide setting us out to seaward , a thick fog which prevented our seeing the ship , and a breeze too light to set us against the tide ; for we were as deep as a sand-barge . - A clear sky ; burning , vertical sun ; work going lazily on , and men about decks with nothing but duck trowsers , checked shirts , and straw hats ; the ship moving as lazily through the water ; the man at the helm resting against the wheel , with his hat drawn over his eyes ; the captain below , taking an afternoon nap ; the passenger leaning over the taffrail , watching a dolphin following slowly in our wake ; the sailmaker mending an old topsail on the lee side of the quarterdeck ; the carpenter working at his bench , in the waist ; the boys making sinner ; the spun-yarn winch whizzing round and round , and the men walking slowly fore and aft with their yarns . " And there they stood , one on each side of it , face to face , and went at it like two game-cocks . Stockings , mittens , and all , were wrung out also and then hung up to drain and chafe dry against the bulk-heads . He turned fiercely upon me , and tried to look me down , and face me out of my statement ; but finding that that would n't do , and that I was entering upon my defence in such a way as would show to the other two that he was in the wrong , - he changed his ground , and pointed to the shipping papers of the Pilgrim , from which my name had never been erased , and said that there was my name , - that I belonged to her , - that he had an absolute discretionary power ; - and , in short , that I must be on board the Pilgrim by the next morning with my chest and hammock , or have some one ready to go in my place , and that he would not hear another word from me . She had been acting in this way all of our forenoon watch below ; as we could tell by the washing of the water over our heads , and the heavy breaking of the seas against her bows , ( with a sound as though she were striking against a rock , ) only the thickness of the plank from our heads , as we lay in our berths , which are directly against the bows .