Every thing about the ship, outside as well as inside, is in beautiful
order. Even the belaying pins, of which there are about forty,
including all on each side of the deck and about the masts, have been
scraped and varnished. No house on shore is in a more creditable state
of neatness. No idleness is allowed, but we are not so much at a loss
to find employment for the sailors as was one captain, who, when
everything about his ship was in perfect order, still kept his men
occupied by setting them to scrape the anchors.