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less sum than \ II, 900, and while the
hull not unfrcqucn,ly costs !. ~, 600 more,
while many have sailed whose total cost
does not vary far from 100000. The
principal kind of provisions required for
the crew upon their voyage, consists of
beef and pork, bread, molasses, peas,
beans, corn, potatoes, dried apples, coffee,
tea, chocolate, butter besides from three
to four thousand of casks, made from
white oak, and ii quantity of spare duck,
cordagc, and other articles which may be
required in the course of the voyage. In
ship which mans four boats, from thirty
to thirty-two men are employed. The
contract entered into between the crew
and the owners of the ship, and contained
in the shipping articles that are required
to be signed by each sailor, makes it bind
ing on the owners to provide the ship and
all the necessary outlays of the voyage,
and upon the crew to perform their duty
on board the ship, obeying all proper Or
dcrs to the end of the voyage. AS a
compensation, they are entitled to such
part of the oil, or whatever else may be
obtained, as shall be agreed upon for their
services and if, in case of death or acci-
dent, any portion of the crew is unable
to perform his part of the voyage, they or
their legal representatives are empowered
to draw in their own right, whatever of
compensation would have fallen to their
share had the voyage been completed,
this compensation being proportioned to
the time they shall have served. The
lays" or shares of the captain, officers,
and crew, are measured by the amount of
their experience and value in the voyage.
When wages, however, are high IN New
York or Boston, seamen are difficult to
be procured. These lays are of course
depending upon various circumstances
but generally the captains lay is one sew
cntecnth part Of all which is obtained
the first officers, one twenty-eighth part
the second officers, one forty-flth the
third one sixtieth the boat-stcerer draws
from an eightieth to a hundred and twen-
tieth, and the common sailor before the
mast, from hundred and twentieth to
hundred aud fftieth, according to his ex-
perience and activity and strength. On
the outward passage, the crew are divid-
ed into two watches, similar to those
which exist in the merchant service.


TO be continued.