CHAPTER XII.

Sailors' Songs--Bully or Coax--Treatment of Sailors--Schooner "Jane"--A Mackerel Shower--Fog on the Coast--Taking a Pilot--Arrived--Paying off--Scraping Belaying Pins.

"Once more upon the waters, yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me, as a steed That knows his rider."

--_Byron's Childe Harold._

"Who would not sell a farm and go to sea?"--_Sailor Proverb._

ON BOARD THE "ROCKET."