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" said the crew , " the captain has let you off , because you are a gentleman 's son , and have got friends , and know the owners ; and taken Ben , because he is poor , and has got nobody to say a word for him ! A man , too , can have nothing peculiar or sacred on board ship ; for all the nicer feelings they take pride in disregarding , both in themselves and others . 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 . The curse of a people calling themselves Christian , seems to follow them everywhere ; and even here , in this obscure place , lay two young islanders , whom I had left strong , active young men , in the vigor of health , wasting away under a disease , which they would never have known but for their intercourse with Christianized Mexico and people from Christian America . The sailors said that every blast , as it shook the shrouds , and whistled through the rigging , said to the old ship , " No , you do n't ! By the time this is done , and you are looking out for a soft plank for a nap , - " Lay aft here , and square in the head yards ! It was just seven months since they left Boston , which seemed but yesterday to us . For two days more the wind blew from the southward and eastward ; or in the short intervals when it was fair , the ice was too thick to run ; yet the weather was not so dreadfully bad , and the crew had watch and watch . When this offer was published in the ship , and the case of poor Ben was set forth in strong colors , several , who would not have dreamed of going themselves , were busy in talking it up to others , who , they thought , might be tempted to accept it ; and , at length , one fellow , a harum-scarum lad , whom we called Harry Bluff , and who did not care what country or ship he was in , if he had clothes enough and money enough - partly from pity for Ben , and partly from the thought he should have " cruising money " for the rest of his stay , - came forward , and offered to go and " sling his hammock in the bloody hooker . I took my last look of their familiar faces as they got over the rail , and saw the old black cook put his head out of the galley , and wave his cap over his head . This kind of ice is much more dangerous than the large islands , for those can be seen at a distance , and kept away from ; but the field-ice , floating in great quantities , and covering the ocean for miles and miles , in pieces of every size-large , flat , and broken cakes , with here and there an island rising twenty and thirty feet , and as large as the ship 's hull ; - this , it is very difficult to sheer clear of . All the hides that had been collected since the California left the coast , ( a little more than two years , ) amounting to about forty thousand , were cured , dried , and stowed away in the house , waiting for our good ship to take them to Boston . But they saw that I would not go , unless " vi et armis , " and they knew that I had friends and interest enough at home to make them suffer for any injustice they might do me . " Battle-songs , drinking-songs , boat-songs , love-songs , and everything else , they seemed to have a complete assortment of , and I was glad to find that " All in the Downs , " " Poor Tom Bowline , " " The Bay of Biscay , " " List , ye Landsmen ! When they got on board , they were completely exhausted , and took a watch below of twelve hours . She had evidently more on her than she could bear ; yet it was in vain to try to take it in - the clewline was not strong enough ; and they were thinking of cutting away , when another wide yaw and a come-to , snapped the guys , and the swinging boom came in , with a crash , against the lower rigging . - you know where you're going ! " - " No , you do n't ! Two men threw the hides down from the piles in the house , two more picked them up and put them on a long horizontal pole , raised a few feet from the ground , where they were beaten , by two more , with flails , somewhat like those used in threshing wheat . Supper , too , must be eaten before the letters were read ; and when , at last , they were brought out , they all got round any one who had a letter , and expected to have it read aloud , and have it all in common . On Sunday morning , as soon as the decks were washed , and we had got breakfast , those who had obtained liberty began to clean themselves , as it is called , to go ashore .