Sunday--Piping to supper--Mustering by lists--A seaman disrated
and rerated--Ratings of seamen--Tendency to do right--Examining
stores--Captain's duties--Clothes' muster--Responsibility--A
sailor's kit--A sailor's habits--Mizen-top
dandies--Hammocks--Piping the bags down--Pressing emigrants--A
Scotchman's kit--Improved clothes' muster


CHAPTER XIII.

Sailors' pets--Purchasing a monkey--Jacko's attractions--Gets
monkey's allowance--Jacko and the marines--Jacko's
revenge--Jacko turns on his friend--Spills the grog--Is
pursued, but is pardoned--Condemned to die--Commuted to
teeth-drawing--Surgeon's assistant appealed to--He can't
bite--The travelled monkey--Trick on the marines--Its
consequences--A potent dose--Its operations--Jack's
superstitions--The grunter pet--Jean's advocate--Her good
qualities--Jean's obesity, and its attractions--Her death and
burial--Well ballasted


CHAPTER XIV.

Doubling the Cape--Southern constellations--Intelligent chief
officer--Sailors and their friends--Parting company--The
cape--Simon's town--A fresh breeze--Rising to a gale--All hands
shorten sail--Value of experience to an officer--Taking in
reefs--Taking in mainsail--Heaving the log--Before the
gale--Effects of a gale--Value of a chronometer proved by the