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One of them was not so ill ; and was moving about , smoking his pipe , and talking , and trying to keep up his spirits ; but the other , who was my friend , and Aikane - Hope , was the most dreadful object I had ever seen in my life : his eyes sunken and dead , his cheeks fallen in against his teeth , his hands looking like claws ; a dreadful cough , which seemed to rack his whole shattered system , a hollow whispering voice , and an entire inability to move himself . Two long , heavy spars , called steeves , made of the strongest wood , and sharpened off like a wedge at one end , were placed with their wedge ends into the inside of the hide which was the centre of the book , and to the other end of each , straps were fitted , into which large tackles were hooked , composed each of two huge purchase blocks , one hooked to the strap on the end of the steeve , and the other into a dog , fastened into one of the beams , as far aft as it could be got . 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 . He gave us the whole account of his adventures in the country , - roguery and all - and was very entertaining . The usual outfit of pumps , white stockings , loose white duck trowsers , blue jackets , clean checked shirts , black kerchiefs , hats well varnished , with a fathom of black ribbon over the left eye , a silk handkerchief flying from the outside jacket pocket , and four or five dollars tied up in the back of the neckerchief , and we were " all right . The studding-sail halyards were let go , and the yards boom-ended , the after yards braced aback , and we waited her coming down .