He wished to make his own experiments, in the first place; and in the second, he objected to the mixed gatherings of a fleet of all nations.

The bulk of them were mainly Gloucester boats, with a scattering from Provincetown, Harwich, Chatham, and some of the Maine ports, but the crews drew from goodness knows where.

Risk breeds recklessness, and when greed is added there are fine chances for every kind of accident in the crowded fleet, which, like a mob of sheep, is huddled round some unrecognised leader.
"Let the two Jeraulds lead 'em," said Disko.

"We're baound to lay among 'em fer a spell on the Eastern Shoals; though ef luck holds, we won't hev to lay long.

Where we are naow, Harve, ain't considered noways good graound." "Ain't it ?" said Harvey, who was drawing water (he had learned just how to wiggle the bucket), after an unusually long dressing-down.
"Shouldn't mind striking some poor ground for a change, then." "All the graound I want to see--don't want to strike her--is Eastern Point," said Dan.