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Having a fine wind , we were soon up with and passed the latitude of the Cape , and having stood far enough to the southward to give it a wide berth , we began to stand to the eastward , with a good prospect of being round and steering to the northward on the other side , in a very few days . Finding nothing was to be got from the captain , I consulted an old shipmate , who had much experience in these matters , and got from him a recipe , which he always kept by him . After I had got through these , I allowed myself a more general range among everything that I could remember , both in prose and verse . Thick stockings and drawers were darned and patched ; mittens dragged from the bottom of the chest and mended ; comforters made for the neck and ears ; old flannel shirts cut up to line monkey jackets ; southwesters lined with flannel , and a pot of paint smuggled forward to give them a coat on the outside ; and everything turned to hand ; so that , although two years had left us but a scanty wardrobe , yet the economy and invention which necessity teaches a sailor , soon put each of us in pretty good trim for bad weather , even before we had seen the last of the fine . 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 . An occasional touch of the toe to the ground , seemed all that was necessary to give him a long interval of motion in the air . Captain Holmes endeavored to get him a passage back , but there being no vessel to sail for some time , the boy left him , and went to board at a common sailor 's boarding-house , in Ann street , where he supported himself for a few weeks by selling some of his valuables . This pacified them a little , but Jack had got a notion that a poor lad was to be imposed upon , and did not distinguish very clearly ; and though I knew that I was in no fault , and , in fact , had barely escaped the grossest injustice , yet I felt that my berth was getting to be a disagreeable one . As soon as I came on deck , and took my place and regular walk , I began with repeating over to myself a string of matters which I had in my memory , in regular order . We thought there must be a sail in sight , and that we were about to heave-to and speak her ; and were just congratulating ourselves upon it - for we had seen neither sail nor land since we had left port - when we heard the mate 's voice on deck , ( he turned-in " all standing , " and was always on deck the moment he was called , ) singing out to the men who were taking in the studding-sails , and asking where his watch were . We had now had fun enough out of him , and taking pity on him , offered him a pot of tea , and a cut at the kid , with the rest , in the forecastle . The lad went up to him with the most complete assurance , and raising his hat , wished him a good afternoon . I also sewed and covered a tarpaulin hat , thick and strong enough to sit down upon , and made myself a complete suit of flannel under-clothing , for bad weather . One night , he burst into our room at the hide-house , breathless , pale as a ghost , covered with mud , and torn by thorns and briers , nearly naked , and begged for a crust of bread , saying he had neither eaten nor slept for three days .