Its cost, including the mounting, was ninety-seven dollars.
In all, three hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
Then there were other bills, including the cost of several nautical telescopes, also ice-anchors, ice-chisels, sounding-line, hawsers, &c., to the sum of a hundred and three dollars.
The lumber and carpenter work on "The Curlew" at Portland made a bill of a hundred and nine dollars; seamen's wages to Gloucester, with car-fare back, nineteen dollars; bracing and strengthening the schooner, sixty-seven dollars; cost of getting in fuel and water, thirty-three dollars; and other bills to the amount of forty-nine dollars: in all, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars.

We had thus to pay out at the start over eleven hundred dollars.Capt.Mazard, too, was kept as busy as ourselves superintending the work, putting the vessel in ballast, &c.

Indeed, it's no small job to get ready for such a cruise.

We had no idea of it when we began..