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He spoke English very well , and was suspected of being favorably inclined to foreigners . 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 . Finding neither willing to make an offer for reconciliation , he called all hands up , ( for the captain was ashore , and he could do as he chose aboard , ) ranged the crew in the waist , marked a line on the deck , brought the two boys up to it , making them " toe the mark ; " then made the bight of a rope fast to a belaying pin , and stretched it across the deck , bringing it just above their waists . Nat then came up to the mark , but looked white about the mouth , and his blows were not given with half the spirit of his first . At length , a few whiffs came across the water , and , by eleven o'clock , the regular north-west wind set steadily in . Time after time he was knocked nearly down , but up he came again and faced the mark , as bold as a lion , again to take the heavy blows , which sounded so as to make one 's heart turn with pity for him .