The ship was hauled into the stream, and being a fine model, freshly painted, with royal yards athwart, and colors flying, and signal guns being fired night and morning, attracted much notice and was the admiration of sailors.

I was proud of my good fortune in obtaining a chance before the mast, in such a vessel, bound on such a voyage.
The crew was numerous for a ship of three hundred tons, consisting of eight able seamen, exclusive of the boatswain, and four boys.

Besides a cook and steward we had a captain's clerk, an armorer, a carpenter, and a tailor.

The ship's complement, all told, consisting of twenty-two.
For an armament we carried four handsome carriage guns, besides boarding pikes, cutlasses, and muskets in abundance.

We had also many coils of rattling stuff, small rope for making boarding nettings, and a good supply of gunpowder was deposited in the magazine.
The sailors came on board, or were brought on board by their landlords, after we had hauled from the wharf.