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These turns lasted but a short while , and sooner or later it set again from the old quarter ; yet each time we made something , and were gradually edging along to the eastward . As we drew in toward the mouth of the harbor , as toward a focus , the vessels began to multiply until the bay seemed actually alive with sails gliding about in every direction ; some on the wind , and others before it , as they were bound to or from the emporium of trade and centre of the bay . She was a good , substantial ship , not quite so long as the Alert , and wall-sided and kettle-bottomed , after the latest fashion of south-shore cotton and sugar wagons ; strong , too , and tight , and a good average sailor , but with no pretensions to beauty , and nothing in the style of a " crack ship . If the design of those who are writing on this subject is merely to draw public attention to it , and to discourage the practice of flogging , and bring it into disrepute , it is well ; and , indeed , whatever may be the end they have in view , the mere agitation of the question will have that effect , and , so far , must do good . It is a thing out of the question , and certainly , in the present state of mankind , not to be desired . I was so lost in the sight , that I forgot the presence of the man who came out with me , until he said , ( for he , too , rough old man-of-war's-man as he was , had been gazing at the show , ) half to himself , still looking at the marble sails - " How quietly they do their work !