and the halyards manned, the emigrants giving every assistance they could. The yards were then hoisted up, a seaman singing, in order to keep the hands all pulling together, words something like the following? The yards were braced round to catch the wind, accompanied by songs of various metres, according to the length of the pull and the number pulling. // The phrase "songs of various metres..." makes it sound somewhat sophisticated. Holystoning songs are also alluded to, after arriving in New York in August: // The seamen were put to holystone the deck, and as they rubbed, one of them sung a song, rubbing and keeping time. // Being the early 1830s, this was also the start of the boom in minstrel music...that would have such an influence on chanties. Here is a scene in New York, with "Coal Black Rose" and "Jump Jim Crow." Note the segregated African-American audience also in attendance.pg. 68: // In the evening I went to the theatre; the play was Inkle and Yarico. The people of colour were huddled into a place by themselves ; the pale faces, though liberty is continually in their mouths, lord it over them on every occasion. The Americans boast of having given the slaves their freedom in New York, but they still treat them as such, and expose them to every kind of indignity and insult. The performance, upon the whole, was very poor; but there was an excellent comic actor who played the part of a