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It brought casks of flour, and pork, and hogsheads of sugar, and boxes of tea, and cheeses, and all sorts of cooking and mess things, and saddles, and harness, and ropes, and tobacco, and cattle medicines; indeed, it would be hard to say what it did not bring.
"There were two hogsheads of whisky drank at my father's wake!" was but a moderate boast of a true Irish squire, fifty years ago.
My father had no sooner done speaking than my mother shook her head at me, and I went and stood out in the yard, leaning my back up against one of the great tallow hogsheads, and thought.
Our arms were taken from us, and we were ordered to go on board the felucca, while the pirates proceeded to rifle the schooner. Except the hogsheads of sugar, which would not have been of much use to them, they found very little, I suspect, to repay them for the heavy cost of our capture. The vessel, however, would probably have been of some value to them, as she was a fine little craft.
The room destined to the fermentation must be close, lighted by two or three windows, and large enough to contain a number of hogsheads sufficient for the distillery. It may be determined by the number of days necessary for the fermentation; 30 or 40 hogsheads may suffice, each of 120 or 130 gallons.
Here all the linen of the city is washed by hosts of noisy negresses, and here also the water-carts are filled painted hogsheads on wheels, drawn by bullocks. Along these beautiful roads we found much to interest us during the first few days.
In another moment a boisterous crowd of men, their faces flushed with drink, all wearing sprigs of hemlock in their hats, came pouring up the steps and filled the store, those who could not enter thronging the piazza and grinning in at the windows. Edwards and the other gentlemen stood at bay at the back end of the store, in front of the liquor hogsheads.
"The 20th December, twenty-five bales cotton, four hogsheads tobacco in leaf, delivered to Mr Merton," began the overseer; "the 24th January, twenty-five bales cotton and one hogshead tobacco-leaves." "Right," said I. "That was our whole crop," said the man. "A tolerable falling off from the former year," I observed. "There were ninety-five bales and fifty hogsheads."
"Run a ferry-boat!" sneered Ben; "that isn't my style." "We don't need any help on the steamer." "Yes, you do. At any rate, I'll go down and see what you are about." "What's that rock for?" he demanded, pointing to the sinker which lay on the skids. "To sink the casks with," replied Ethan; and he explained the process by which the hogsheads were attached to the hull of the Woodville.
When fully grown, it is nearly an inch long, and has three powerful lights; one on each side of the head, and a third on the abdomen. The next day at four o'clock, P. M. I came out to CANIMAR River, about nine miles from Matanzas, where I found a number of American and English coopers, employed in making and repairing sugar hogsheads, &c.
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