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by a conventional respect for duties, and respectable and useful, by frugality, enterprise, and untiring activity. Roswell Gardiner had not mistaken the persons of those in the boat. They proved to be Phil Hazard, his first officer; Tim Green, the second mate; and the two sealers whom it had cost so much time and ingenuity to obtain. Although neither of the mates even suspected the truth, no sooner had they engaged the right sort of man than he was tampered with by the agents of the Martha's Vineyard concern, and spirited away by means of more tempting proposals, before he had got quite so far as to sign the articles. One of the motives for sending Watson across to Oyster Pond had been to induce Captain Gardiner to believe he had engaged so skilful a hand, which would effectually prevent his attempting to procure another, until, at the last moment, he might find himself unable to put to sea for the want of a complement. A whaling or a sealing voyage requires that the vessel should take out with her the particular hands necessary to her specific object, though, of late years, the seamen have got so much in the habit of 'running,' especially in the Pacific, that it is only the craft that strictly belong to what may be termed the whaling communities, that bring back with them the people they carry out, and not always them. But here had Roswell Gardiner his complement full, and nearly everything ready to sea. He had only to go up to the Harbour and obtain his clearance, have a short interview with his owner, a longer with Mary, and be off for the antarctic circle, if indeed the ice would allow him to get as far south. There were now sixteen souls on board the Sea Lion, a very sufficient number for the voyage on which she was about to sail. The disposition or rating of the crew was as follows, viz. 1. Roswell Gardiner, master. 2. Philip Hazard, chief mate. 3. Timothy Green, second do. 4. David Weeks, carpenter. 5. Nathan Thompson, seaman. 6. Sylvester Havens, do. 7. Marcus Todd, do. 8. Hiram Flint, do. 9. Joshua Short, seaman. 10. Stephen Stimson, do. 11. Bartlett Davidson, do. 12. Peter Mount, landsman. 13. Arcularius Mott, do. 14. Robert Smith, do. 15. Cato Livingston, cook. 16. Primus Floyd, boy. This was considered a good crew, on the whole. Every man was a native American, and most of them belonged to old Suffolk. Thompson, and Flint, and Short, and Stimson, four c
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