ly a wonder more hasn't come in."

Jim and I never thought who was captain; if I told him to do a thing he
did it, or if he gave an order I did not stop to consider whether or not
he had the right to command. We worked together as if we had but one
will.

It was "a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull both together."

There were plenty of spars below, and I soon selected some which I
thought would serve for the masts and yards we required. I had to call
Jim to help me get them up on deck.

"There'll be no use for these till we can find some canvas to spread on
them," I observed.

"Nor till we get a breeze to fill the sails," said Jim. "However, we'll
get them set while the calm lasts, and no doubt you'll find as many as
we can carry in the sail-room."

This was right aft, down a small hatchway. While Jim went again to his
pump, I hunted about and hauled out two topgallantsails and royals, a
fore-staysail, a second jib, and a main-trysail. If we could set all
these we should do well, supposing we got a fair breeze. It would be no
easy job, however, I knew, to get up the masts. We had one advantage.
The proper masts had been carried away some six or seven feet from the
deck, so that we might lash the spars to them. Before setting to work I
again went below to hunt for rope. I got more than I expected from
different parts of the vessel, and we had also saved some of the
rigging, which had been entangled in the bulwarks.

"We shall want every scrap of rope we can find!" cried Jim, panting and
still pumping away.

"I'll take a spell with you," I said. "Then we'll turn to and rig the
ship."

I pumped till I could pump no longer, and then, after a short rest, we
commenced in earnest. We first lashed a short spar, with a tackle
secured to its head, to the stump of the foremast, and then, having
fitted two shrouds on a side, with a forestay and backstays, and blocks
for the halliards, to the spar we had chosen for a foremast, we swayed
it up my means of the short spar and tackle. We could not possibly in
any other way have accomplished our object. We next lashed the spar to
the stump of the mast. No time was lost in setting up the standing
rigging. Our foremast being thus fixed, we surveyed it with infinite
satisfaction, and then turned to and fitted the brig with a mainmast in
the same fashion. This we made somewhat stronger, as we intended it to
carry a mainsail should we have to haul on a wind. Our