About noon
Here was a man who had been outrageously used . Drugged -- robbed -- ` shanghai-ed ' ! His head splitting with the foul drink , knowing nothing and no one ; but he had heard a seamanlike order , so he hauled on the rope , and only muttered something about his last ship having a crab-winch for the topsail halyards ! About noon we cast off the tug , but there was yet no wind to fill our canvas , and we lay as she had left us long after her smoke had vanished from the misty horizon . At one we were sent below for our first sea-meal . Over our beef and potatoes we discussed our new shipmates and agreed that they were a weedy lot for a long voyage . In this our view was held by the better men in the fo ` cas ` le and , after dinner , the crew came aft in a body , headed by Old Martin , who said `` as ` ow they wanted t ' speak t ' th ' Captin ! ''