droghing

Updated: May 29, 2025

This was the romance of hide droghing! Some of the hides lodged in cavities under the bank and out of our sight, being directly under us; but by pitching other hides in the same direction, we succeeded in dislodging them. Had they remained there, the captain said he should have sent on board for a couple of pairs of long halyards, and got some one to go down for them.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

Besides this, having begun the voyage with very few clothes, he had taken up the greater part of his wages in the slop-chest, and it was every day a losing concern to him; and, like all the rest of the crew, he had a hearty hatred of California, and the prospect of eighteen months or two years more of hide droghing seemed completely to break down his spirit.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

The third was a large ship, with top-gallant-masts housed and sails unbent, and looking as rusty and worn as two years' ``hide droghing'' could make her. This was the Lagoda.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

The captain is a burly foremast man in manner, with a heart of wax and every feeling of a gentleman. He was in California, 'HIDE DROGHING' with Dana, and he says every line of Two Years before the Mast is true. He went through it all himself. He says that I am a great help to him, as a pattern of discipline and punctuality.

Lady Lucie Duff Gordon - Letters from the Cape

But we cared very little about the matter ourselves. ``Happy go lucky'' with Jack! We did not believe that a French prison would be much worse than ``hide droghing'' on the coast of California; and no one who has not been a long, dull voyage, shut up in one ship, can conceive of the effect of monotony upon one's thoughts and wishes.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast