while the others caught at his words, and repeated them to a kind of Chinese melody; the whole at length uniting their voices into one chant, which, though evidently the outpouring of a jovial spirit, had, from its unvaried tone and constant echo of the same expression, a half-wild, half-melancholy effect upon the ear. ?It had begun with "Yah! yah! here's a full ship for the captain, and a full pannikin for Peytie Pevterson, la? la?lalla?la?leh; but this sentence, after many repetitions, was changed for others of briefer duration and more expressive import, as they coursed after each other with intoxicating rapidity? Fictional whaleship/capstan ("Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean", 1829) - Sailors, when heaving at a windlass, in order that they may heave together, always have one to sing out; which is done in a peculiar, high and long-drawn note, varying with the motion of the windlass - "Cheerily, men!" [CHEERLY] brig PILGRIM/catting anchor - lightening their labors in the boats by their songs, Italians rowing (Dana 1840ff) 1835 - A line was sung by a leader, then all joined in a short chorus; then came another solo line, and another short chorus, followed by a longer chorus, Jacksonville, FL/Blacks rowing (Kennard 1845) 1835, September - "Ho! cheerly" [CHEERLY] US ship PEACOCK, the Gulf of Mazeira [coast of Arabia]/ as they marched round the capstan, or hauled in the hawser by hand (Howland 1840) - The crew was made up of the hardest kind of men; they