anchor was out of water; the sails run up and sheeted home, and with a famous wind, the ship, with flying colors, left her berth. Arriving NY: The anchor came to the bow with the chanty of "Oh, Riley, Oh," and "Carry me Long," and the tug walked us toward the wharf at Brooklyn. In c.1865-1866, Clark was on the NASON, a fishing schooner (I assume?) out of Provincetown, sailing off the Grand Banks. "Every man sprang to duty. The cheerful chanty was roared out, and heard above the howl of the gale. The cable held very hard, and when it surged over, the windlass sent the men flying about the deck, as if a galvanic battery had been applied to their hands. The vessel's head was often buried in the solid seas, and the men, soaked and sweating, yelled out hoarsely, " Paddy on the Railway," and " We 're Homeward Bound," while they tugged at the brakes, and wound the long, hard cable in, inch by inch." Note that he uses the word "chanty." That word is used elsewhere in the text -- in other contexts. Here he is referring to stevedores, in Zanzibar: A chanty gang was engaged to hoist out the cargo, and one of them in trying to steal hard bread, finding the bull-dog upon him, jumped overboard and swam safely ashore....... The chanty men wanted biscuit, and waited to receive them. So, "chanty men" and "chanty gang" had become a general term for stevedores.