During the day, he saved all the nice
things, and made a bucket of swill, and asked us to take it ashore
in the gig, and looked quite disconcerted when the mate told him
that he would pitch the 'I overboard, and him after it, if he saw
any of it go into the boats. We told him that he thought more about
the pig than he did about his wife, who lived down in Robinson's
Alley; and, indeed, he could hardly have been more attentive, for he
actually, on several nights, after dark, when he thought he would
not be seen, sculled himself ashore in a boat with a bucket of nice
swill, and returned like Leander from crossing the Hellespont.
The next Sunday the other half of our crew went ashore on liberty,
and left us on board, to enjoy the first quiet Sunday which we had
upon the coast. Here were no hides to come off, and no southeasters to
fear. We washed and mended our clothes in the morning, and spent the
rest of the day in reading and writing. Several of us wrote letters to
send home by the Lagoda. At twelve o'clock the Ayacucho dropped her
fore topsail, which was a signal for her sailing. She unmoored and
warped down into the night, from which she got under way.
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