[tag=IN] [tag="PRP$" | lemma=□]?
[tag=IN] [tag="PRP$" | lemma=theology]?
What 's the use in being always on the look-out for Davy Jones ? She seemed desirous of a trial of speed , and our captain accepted the challenge , although we were loaded down to the bolts of our chain plates , as deep as a sand-barge , and bound so taught with our cargo that we were no more fit for a race than a man in fetters ; - while our antagonist was in her best trim . He spent his own money and nearly all the stores among the half-bloods upon the beach , and being turned away , went up to the Presidio , where he lived the life of a desperate " loafer , " until some rascally deed sent him off " between two days , " with men on horseback , dogs , and Indians in full cry after him , among the hills . Between the tops , too , and the mast-heads , from the fore to the main swifters , and thence to the mizen rigging , and in all directions athwartships , tricing-lines were run , and strung with hides . Between daylight and dark - that is , between nine o'clock and three - we saw thirty-four ice islands , of various sizes ; some no bigger than the hull of our vessel , and others apparently nearly as large as the one that we first saw ; though , as we went on , the islands became smaller and more numerous ; and , at sundown of this day , a man at the mast-head saw large fields of floating ice called " field-ice " at the south-east . When the skiff went off with her load , we could only keep our feet from freezing by racing up and down the beach on the hard sand , as fast as we could go . The lad was sent on shore to join the gang at the hide-house ; from whence , I was afterwards rejoiced to hear , he effected his escape , and went down to Callao in a small Spanish schooner ; and from Callao , he probably returned to England . We could now see how much she was cramped and deadened by her cargo ; for with a good breeze on her quarter , and every stitch of canvas spread , we could not get more than six knots out of her . We were moored , stem and stern , within a cable 's length of the shore , safe from south-easters , and with very little boating to do ; and as it rained nearly all the time , awnings were put over the hatchways , and all hands sent down between decks , where we were at work , day after day , picking oakum , until we got enough to caulk the ship all over , and to last the whole voyage . Friday , and a part of Saturday , we were engaged in this work , until we had thrown out all but what we wanted under our cargo on the passage home ; when , as the next day was Sunday , and a good day for smoking ship , we cleared everything out of the cabin and forecastle , made a slow fire of charcoal , birch bark , brimstone , and other matters , on the ballast in the bottom of the hold , calked up the hatches and every open seam , and pasted over the cracks of the windows , and the slides of the scuttles , and companionway . Each one was taking his last look at the mission , the town , the breakers on the beach , and swearing that no money would make him ship to see them again ; and when all hands tallied on to the cat-fall , the chorus of " Time for us to go ! It was a lad , between fifteen and sixteen years of age , who went by the name of the " reefer , " having been a midshipman in East India Company 's ship . Unfortunately , there was no moon , but it was a clear night , and we could plainly mark the long , regular heaving of the stupendous mass , as its edges moved slowly against the stars .