[lemma=drive | □=□ | □]
[lemma=drive | word=□ | □]
[lemma=drive | lemma=□ | □]
When this was arranged , and the ways greased upon which the book was to slide , the falls of the tackles were stretched forward , and all hands tallied on , and bowsed away until the book was well entered ; when these tackles were nippered , straps and toggles clapped upon the falls , and two more luff tackles hooked on , with dogs , in the same manner ; and thus , by luff upon luff , the power was multiplied , until into a pile in which one hide more could not be crowded by hand , an hundred or an hundred and fifty were often driven in by this complication of purchases . Here then our progress was stopped , and we wore ship , and once more stood to the northward and eastward ; not for the straits of Magellan , but to make another attempt to double the Cape , still farther to the eastward ; for the captain was determined to get round if perseverance could do it ; and the third time , he said , never failed . It blew hard the whole time , and there was an almost constant driving of either rain , hall , or snow . When the last luff was hooked on , all hands were called to the rope - cook , steward , and all - and ranging ourselves at the falls , one behind the other , sitting down on the hides , with our heads just even with the beams , we set taught upon the tackles , and striking up a song , and all lying back at the chorus , we bowsed the tackles home , and drove the large books chock in out of sight . I've seen them colleges , and know the ropes . An English brig , which had put into San Francisco , lost both her anchors ; the Rosa was driven upon a mud bank in San Diego ; and the Pilgrim , with great difficulty , rode out the gale in Monterey , with three anchors ahead . No sooner was it set than the ship tore on again like one that was mad , and began to steer as wild as a hawk . I went on board the first night , after supper ; found the old cook in the galley , playing upon the fife which I had given him , as a parting present ; had a hearty shake of the hand from him ; and dove down into the forecastle , where were my old shipmates , the same as ever , glad to see me ; for they had nearly given us up as lost , especially when they did not find us in Santa Barbara . We often found a great difference in the effect of the different songs in driving in the hides . The sun shone bright as long as it was up , only that a scud of black clouds was ever and anon driving across it . In our first attempt to double the Cape , when we came up to the latitude of it , we were nearly seventeen hundred miles to the westward , but , in running for the straits of Magellan , we stood so far to the eastward , that we made our second attempt at a distance of not more than four or five hundred miles ; and we had great hopes , by this means , to run clear of the ice ; thinking that the easterly gales , which had prevailed for a long time , would have driven it to the westward . From the time her keel was laid , she had never been so driven ; and had it been life or death with every one of us , she could not have borne another stitch of canvas . We did not wait for a second call , but tumbled up the ladder ; and there , on the starboard bow , was a bank of mist , covering sea and sky , and driving directly for us . Two or three songs would be tried , one after the other , with no effect ; - not an inch could be got upon the tackles - when a new song , struck up , seemed to hit the humor of the moment , and drove the tackles " two blocks " at once . For more than an hour she was driven on at such a rate that she seemed actually to crowd the sea into a heap before her ; and the water poured over the spritsail yard as it would over a dam . A half hour served to clear all away , and she was suffered to drive on with her topmast studding-sail set , it being as much as she could stagger under . Day after day , Captain Faucon went up to the hill to look out for us , and at last , gave us up , thinking we must have gone down in the gale which we experienced off Point Conception , and which had blown with great fury over the whole coast , driving ashore several vessels in the snuggest ports . Under her increased sail , the ship drove on through the water .