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The bride 's father 's house was the principal one in the place , with a large court in front , upon which a tent was built , capable of containing several hundred people . Several times in our watch loud cracks were heard , which sounded as though they must have run through the whole length of the iceberg , and several pieces fell down with a thundering crash , plunging heavily into the sea . Several of us clubbed together and bought a large piece of twilled cotton , which we made into trowsers and jackets , and giving them several coats of linseed oil , laid them by for Cape Horn . Instead of violent measures , or , at least , an outbreak of quarter-deck bravado , threats , and abuse , which they had every reason to expect , a sense of common danger and common suffering seemed to have tamed his spirit , and begotten something like a humane fellow feeling ; for he received the crew in a manner quiet , and even almost kind . Barefooted , with an old pair of trowsers tied round his waist by a piece of green hide , a soiled cotton shirt , and a torn Indian hat ; " cleaned out , " to the last real , and completely " used up . They sang in the true sailor 's style , and the rest of the crew , which was a remarkably musical one , joined in the choruses . Its great size ; - for it must have been from two to three miles in circumference , and several hundred feet in height ; - its slow motion , as ts base rose and sank in the water , and its high points nodded against the clouds ; the dashing of the waves upon it , which , breaking high with foam , lined its base with a white crust ; and the thundering sound of the cracking of the mass , and the breaking and tumbling down of huge pieces ; together with its nearness and approach , which added a slight element of fear , - all combined to give to it the character of true sublimity . He was horror-struck , as his countenance showed ; yet he had been among the worst cases in our naval hospitals . Those who had no south-wester caps , made them , and several of the crew made themselves tarpaulin jackets and trowsers , lined on the inside with flannel .