Also arranged for a skylight in the deck; in short, for having the schooner made as convenient as possible for our purpose, at our expense.
Leaving Capt.

Mazard to superintend these changes, we went back to Gloucester in the morning, and during the day managed to hire six sailors, young fellows of eighteen and twenty, save one, an old sea-dog of fifty or thereabouts, at forty dollars per month.

They looked a little rough, but turned out to be very good sailors; which was the most we wanted.

Their names, as they gave them to us, were Richard Donovan, Henry Corliss, Jerry Hobbs, Thomas Bonney, and George Weymouth.

The elder salt called himself John Somers; though it leaked out shortly after that he had formerly flourished under the less euphonious patronymic of Solomon Trull.
Went home that evening, and the next day advertised for a cook.