As soon as our captain saw what sail she was
under, he set the fore top-gallant sail and flying jib; and the old
whaler- for such, his boats and short sail showed him to be- felt a
little ashamed, and shook the reefs out of his topsoils, but could
do no more, for he had sent down his top-gallant masts off the Cape.
He ran down for us, and answered our hail as the whale-ship, New
England, of Poughkeepsie, one hundred and twenty days from New York.
Our captain gave our name, and added ninety-two days from Boston. They
then had a little conversation about longitude, in which they found
that they could not agree. The ship fell astern, and continued in
sight during the night. Toward morning, the wind having become
light, we crossed our royal and skysail yards, and at daylight, we
were seen under a cloud of sail, having royals and skysails fore and
aft. The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent out his
main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to
heave to. About half-past seven their whale-boat came alongside, and
Captain Job Terry sprang on board, a man known in every port and by
every vessel in the Pacific ocean.
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