making himself heard all over the ship.  The head-pump was then rigged, and the decks washed down by the second and third mates; the chief mate walking the quarter-deck, and keeping a general supervision, but not deigning to touch a bucket or a brush.  Inside and out, fore and aft, upper deck and between-decks, steerage and forecastle, rail, bulwarks, and water-ways, were washed, scrubbed, and scraped with brooms and canvas, and the decks were wet and sanded all over, and then holystoned.  The holystone is a large, soft stone, smooth on the bottom, with long ropes attached to each end, by which the crew keep it sliding fore and aft over the wet sanded decks.  Smaller hand-stones, which the sailors call ``prayer-books,’’ are used to scrub in among the crevices and narrow places, where the large holystone will not go.  An hour or two we were kept at this work, when the head-pump was manned, and all the sand washed off the decks and sides.  Then came swabs and squilgees; and, after the decks were dry, each one went to his particular morning job.  There were five boats belonging to the ship,—­ launch, pinnace, jolly-boat, larboard quarter-boat, and gig,—­ each of which had a coxswain, who had charge of it, and was answerable for the order and cleanness of it.  The rest of the cleaning was divided among the crew; one having the brass and composition work about the capstan; another the bell, which was of brass, and kept as bright as a gilt button; a third, the harness-cask; another, the man-rope stanchions; others, the steps of the forecastle and hatchways, which were hauled up and holystoned.  Each of these jobs must be finished before breakfast; and in the mean time the rest of the crew filled the scuttled-butt, and the cook scraped his kids (wooden tubs out of which sailors eat), and polished the hoops, and placed them before the galley to await inspection.  When the decks were dry, the lord paramount made his appearance on the quarter-deck, and took a few turns, eight bells were struck, and all hands went to breakfast.  Half an hour was allowed for breakfast, when all hands were called again; the kids, pots, bread-bags, &c., stowed away; and, this morning, preparations were made for getting under way.  We paid out on the chain by which we swung, hove in on the other, catted the anchor, and hove short on the first.  This work was done in shorter time than was usual on board the brig; for though everything was more than twice as large and heavy, the cat-block being as much as a man could lift, and the chain as large as three of the Pilgrim’s, yet there was a plenty of room to move about in, more discipline and system, more men, and more good-will.  Each seemed ambitious to do his best.  Officers and men knew their duty, and all went well.  As soon as she was hove short, the mate, on the forecastle, gave the order to loose the sails! and, in an instant all sprung into the rigging, up the shrouds, and out on the yards, scrambling by one another,—­ the first up, the best