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GUEST,Phil d'Conch	Maritime work song in general (729* d)	RE: Maritime work song in general	16 Jan 24
“The capstan was manned, and the hawsers were hove taut. Inch by inch the tide rose, and the Dolphin floated. Then a lusty cheer was given, and Amos Parr struck up one of those hearty songs intermingled with “Ho!” and “Yo heave ho!” that seem to be the life and marrow of all nautical exertion. At last the good ship forged a-head, and, boring through the loose ice, passed slowly out of the Bay of Mercy.” [The World of Ice, Or, Adventures in the Polar Regions, Ballantyne, 1860] “At length the order came for us to return home. Merrily we tramped round at the capstan bars to a jolly song, as we got in our anchor for the last time, and made sail from the port of Leghorn.” [Will Weatherhelm, Kingston, 1860] William Henry Giles Kingston (1814 –1880)

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