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any description can give any idea of him. His only dress was a piece of tarpauling around his middle; his head covered with big pieces of ropeyarn tied to his hair; tremendous whiskers and bear of oakum and all his body painted with black and red stripes. -- He was seated on a gun Carriage with a harpoon in his hand in place of a trident. His spouse made not a less whimsical figure than he did: -- her mouth was covered with a piece of strong leather driven full of nails with the points outward. -- Staines strikeout: his turn came next and he had to go through the same ceremonies as myself, but he could not save himself from the ducking as they managed to get the plank from under him. -- Two of the hands were then Soused and handled rather more roughly than we were. -- Tuesday 20th. -- I was sitting on the main top this forenoon reading "the Incas" when I observed on of the hands coming up the rigging, -- the Captain called to me to run and I tried to escape by the other side when another fellow me there with a rope and made my feet fast to the Shroud, while the other tied my head