It was the _Ghost_ herself that lured Johnson into signing for the voyage, but he is already beginning to repent.
As he told me, the _Ghost_ is an eighty-ton schooner of a remarkably fine model.

Her beam, or width, is twenty-three feet, and her length a little over ninety feet.

A lead keel of fabulous but unknown weight makes her very stable, while she carries an immense spread of canvas.

From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet, while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter.

I am giving these details so that the size of this little floating world which holds twenty-two men may be appreciated.