forthing had dredged up also some men evidently chosen more for advanced age or a placid stupidity than any good qualities , and also baggy : one of the ship 's boys and so called because as a child of six , he had thought the ship was being boarded when badger-bag had climbed up the side in the ceremony of the crossing of the equator , and had leapt down from the rigging upon him , much to the distress of the ship 's cook who had been playing the role , and the general delight of the rest of the crew .