This done, the mane and foretop should be combed out, passing a wet sponge over them, sponging the mane on both sides, by throwing it back to the midriff, to make it lie smooth.

" The mate ascended to the foretop cross-tree, and took a long survey of the stranger.

It is to his minute record that we owe our only perfect picture of a great man; all his vanity as well as his greatness, his prejudices, superstitions, and even the details of his personal appearance: There is the gigantic body, the huge face seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.

On 9th December they met with bad weather and lost their foretop-gallant mast, but the rough handling they got was credited with improving the sailing qualities of the ship, as it took some of the stiffness out of her upperworks.

In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and paired to the quick.

"After watching him for a few minutes, Bill Ellis, the second captain of the foretop, hailed him thus: 'Sadler, ahoy!

send the foretop-man that is called Fid upon the poop.

Towards one o'clock land is sighted by the lookout man on the foretop cross-tree.

At last he caught O'Riley, and grasping him by the two shoulders gave him a heave that was intended and "calc'lated," as Amos Parr afterwards remarked, "to pitch him over the foretop-sail-yard!"

As she approached the southern end of the isle, Bok, who had been sent into the foretop, shouted that again there was land ahead, and that the passage between was full of ice.

On lifting their eyes aloft they beheld a singular-looking object gazing at them over the edge of the foretop.

Then there appeared a stir among the foretop-men and on the forecastle, where a rope was rove at the fore-yard-arm, and a grating was rigged for a platformunerring signs of the approaching execution.

No wonder, then, that the preparations of the foretop-men were regarded with unfavorable eyes.

" "Beg your pardon, sir," said a young foretop-man, who had just descended the rigging"I saw the boat from aloft, sir, and it hung some time, sir, under the starboard main-chains.

However it be, I have been often put out of Countenance by the Shortness of my Face, and was formerly at great Pains in concealing it by wearing a Periwigg with an high Foretop, and letting my Beard grow.

He designed this Wig originally for King William, having disposed of the two Books of Kings in the two Forks of the Foretop; but that glorious Monarch dying before the Wig was finished, there is a Space left in it for the Face of any one that has a mind to purchase it.

In fact, when it is necessary to set them, the sailors must climb by the riggingit may be in the foretop, it may be on the spars of the top-gallant mast, it may be to the top of the said mastand that, as well in letting them fly as in drawing them in to diminish their surface in reefing them.

Dick Sand resolved to bring down his top-gallant mast and his fore-staff, and to furl his low sails, so as to sail under his foretop-mast stay-sail and the low reef of his top-sail.

Then, the top-sail having been lessened and the foresail furled, the schooner carried only her foretop-mast stay-sail and the low reef of the top-sail.

Austin, who was on the yard of the foretop-sail, was struck by the larboard sheet-rope.

" A few minutes after the top-sail had been torn in pieces, the foretop-mast stay-sail was in its turn torn off.

Her damages reduced themselves to the loss of the top-sail and the foretop-mast stay-saila loss which it would be easy to repair.

Gregory, an Italian, sought shelter in the foretop-gallant cross-trees, where he was fired at several times by the Malays with the muskets of the Friendship, which were always kept loaded and ready for use while on the coast.

He even ventured to climb the mast of a ship as far as the foretop.

" After a desperate struggle, half the time more or less under water, two men dragged in and fastened the fragments of the jib, while others set the foretop-mast staysail in its place.