PART VIII.

421. Stowing Hammocks, 229 422. Cockbilling Yards, 230 423. Dressing Ship with Flags, 230 424. Keeping the Copper clean, 231 425. Furling from a Bowline, 232 426. High and Low Bunts, 233 427. To Clear Mast-heads, 233 428. Placing belaying-cleats in Tops, 234 429. Making Swabs, 234 430. Stowage of Swabs, 235 431. Junk, 235 432. Making Mats, and Chafing Gear, 235 433. Gaskets, 236 434. Scraping and Greasing Mats, 237 435. Manning Yards, 237 436. Man Ropes--(side), 238 437. Spare Dead-eyes, 238 438. Hide Rope, 239 439. Hawse-hole Windsail, 239 440. Fighting Ladders, 239 441. Hawse Bucklers, 239 442. Making-fast a Warp to a Vessel, 240 443. Fitting Quarter Boats’ Gripes, 240 444. Fitting Gigs’ Slings, 240 445. Scrubbing a Boat’s bottom on leaving Harbor, 241 446. Carrying Light Boats on Shore, 241 447. Miscellaneous Notes on Working Boats, 242 448. Duties of Boats’ Crews, 243 449. Boats going on Distant Service, 243 450. Boats under Sail, 244 451. Giving a rope to a Boat, 244 452. Crossing a Bar with Surf--in Boats, 245 453. Hauling up Boats, 246 454. Lowering Boats, 246 455. Turning up the Hands, 246 456. Inspection of Rigging, Morning and Evening, 247 457. Inspection of Stowed Anchors, at Sea, 247 458. Inspection of Boats at Sea, 248 459. Gammoning the Bowsprit, 248 460. Precaution in Reeving Running-rigging, 249 461. Topsail Tyes, 249 462. Precaution in Blacking Rigging, 250 463. Fore and Main Buntlines, 250 464. Topgallant Mast Ropes, 250 465. Futtock Shrouds, 251 466. Tops and Half-Tops, 251 467. Striking or Housing Topmasts, 251 468. Swaying up Topmasts, 252 469. Unmooring, 252 470. Reef-lines to the Topsails, 253 471. Reefing Courses, 253 472. Topgallant-Masts struck, 254 473. Hailing aloft, 254 474. Proportions for Cables (Hemp), 254 475. Proportions for Anchors, 254 476. What length is necessary to form a Clinch, 255 477. References to Sketch of Temporary Rudder, 255 478. To Splice an Old Cable to a new one, 255 479. Strip Ship, 256 480. Proportions of Spars of Merchant Ships, Length of Spars, &c. 256 481. Thickness of Spars (Masts), 257 482. Yards, 257 483. Distance for Placing Lower Masts, 257 484. Rule for Placing Masts in a Ship, 257 485. Raising Shears on a Wharf, 258 486. To find the Tonnage of a Vessel by U. S. Measurement, 259 487. Stepping and Raking Lower Masts, 259 488. Mooring, 260