{"id":"01KG8AKYJDQD3MH08W6KQ4BNQ8","cid":"bafkreidhkzyklqkxecm6xtle6t4gsf7req3l2rbrf4re4z4duogstou2ie","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5109,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:14.838Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","start_line":5047,"text":"CHAPTER XXVIII.\r\nHE GOES TO SUPPER AT THE SIGN OF THE BALTIMORE CLIPPER\r\n\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon our pilot was all alive with his orders; we hove up\r\nthe anchor, and after a deal of pulling, and hauling, and jamming\r\nagainst other ships, we wedged our way through a lock at high tide; and\r\nabout dark, succeeded in working up to a berth in _Prince’s Dock._ The\r\nhawsers and tow-lines being then coiled away, the crew were told to go\r\nashore, select their boarding-house, and sit down to supper.\r\n\r\nHere it must be mentioned, that owing to the strict but necessary\r\nregulations of the Liverpool docks, no fires of any kind are allowed on\r\nboard the vessels within them; and hence, though the sailors are\r\nsupposed to sleep in the forecastle, yet they must get their meals\r\nashore, or live upon cold potatoes. To a ship, the American merchantmen\r\nadopt the former plan; the owners, of course, paying the landlord’s\r\nbill; which, in a large crew remaining at Liverpool more than six\r\nweeks, as we of the Highlander did, forms no inconsiderable item in the\r\nexpenses of the voyage. Other ships, however—the economical Dutch and\r\nDanish, for instance, and sometimes the prudent Scotch—feed their\r\nluckless tars in dock, with precisely the same fare which they give\r\nthem at sea; taking their salt junk ashore to be cooked, which, indeed,\r\nis but scurvy sort of treatment, since it is very apt to induce the\r\nscurvy. A parsimonious proceeding like this is regarded with\r\nimmeasurable disdain by the crews of the New York vessels, who, if\r\ntheir captains treated them after that fashion, would soon bolt and\r\nrun.\r\n\r\nIt was quite dark, when we all sprang ashore; and, for the first time,\r\nI felt dusty particles of the renowned British soil penetrating into my\r\neyes and lungs. As for _stepping_ on it, that was out of the question,\r\nin the well-paved and flagged condition of the streets; and I did not\r\nhave an opportunity to do so till some time afterward, when I got out\r\ninto the country; and then, indeed, I saw England, and snuffed its\r\nimmortal loam—but not till then.\r\n\r\nJackson led the van; and after stopping at a tavern, took us up this\r\nstreet, and down that, till at last he brought us to a narrow lane,\r\nfilled with boarding-houses, spirit-vaults, and sailors. Here we\r\nstopped before the sign of a Baltimore Clipper, flanked on one side by\r\na gilded bunch of grapes and a bottle, and on the other by the British\r\nUnicorn and American Eagle, lying down by each other, like the lion and\r\nlamb in the millennium.—A very judicious and tasty device, showing a\r\ndelicate apprehension of the propriety of conciliating American sailors\r\nin an English boarding-house; and yet in no way derogating from the\r\nhonor and dignity of England, but placing the two nations, indeed, upon\r\na footing of perfect equality.\r\n\r\nNear the unicorn was a very small animal, which at first I took for a\r\nyoung unicorn; but it looked more like a yearling lion. It was holding\r\nup one paw, as if it had a splinter in it; and on its head was a sort\r\nof basket-hilted, low-crowned hat, without a rim. I asked a sailor\r\nstanding by, what this animal meant, when, looking at me with a grin,\r\nhe answered, “Why, youngster, don’t you know what that means? It’s a\r\nyoung jackass, limping off with a kedgeree pot of rice out of the\r\ncuddy.”\r\n\r\nThough it was an English boarding-house, it was kept by a broken-down\r\nAmerican mariner, one Danby, a dissolute, idle fellow, who had married\r\na buxom English wife, and now lived upon her industry; for the lady,\r\nand not the sailor, proved to be the head of the establishment.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQSBTJ3R1DDGA61Q68PK","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKYJNB2JMDPBR6VMJJ8D1","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:21.069Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:28.986Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}