time, firing when he could find the leisure. Some of the men came
aft and begged him to give up the ship, telling him they should
all be killed--that the carpenter had all one side of him shot
away--that one man was cut in halves with a double-headed shot as
he was going aloft to loose the foretopsail and the body had
fallen on deck in two separate parts--that such a man was killed
at his duty on the forecastle, and one more had been killed in
the maintop--that Sam, Jim, Jack, and Tom were wounded and that
they would do nothing more towards getting the ship out of the
harbor.

"His reply to them was, 'then you shall be sure to die, for if
they do not kill you I will, so sure as you persist in any such
cowardly resolution,' saying at the same time, 'OUT SHE GOES, OR
DOWN SHE GOES.'"

By this resolute and determined conduct he kept the men to their
duty and succeeded in accomplishing one of the most daring
enterprises perhaps ever attempted.

An immortal phrase, this simple dictum of first mate Hudson of
the Betsy, "Out she goes, or down she goes," and not unworthy of
being mentioned in the same breath with Farragut's "Damn the
torpedoes."

Joined by his brother Samuel in the schooner Pilgrim, which was
used as a tender in the sealing trade, Amasa Delano frequented
unfamiliar beaches until he had taken his toll of skins and was
ready to bear away for Canton to sell them. There were many
Yankee ships after seals in those early days, enduring more peril