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DELIBERATE ROGUERY.
After we reached the blue water, and the wind began to blow and the sea to rise, the old brig, with corresponding motion, tossed and wallowed about as if for a wager.

Although while in port her bottom had been calked and graved, the leak, which gave so much trouble the previous voyage, had not been stopped.

In a fresh breeze and a head sea the seams would open, and a good "spell at the pump," every twenty minutes at least, was required to keep her free.
The captain grumbled and swore like a pirate; but this had no perceptible effect in stopping the leak.

On the contrary, the more he raved, denouncing the brig as a humbug, and the man who sold her to him as a knave and a swindler, the more the brig leaked.