“The wind being fair, in a few minutes the well-known song at the windlass was heard, and then the hoarse voice of the first officer calling out, “The anchor is short apeak, sir; lay aloft fore and aft, and loose the topsails and top-gallant sails.” These orders were quickly obeyed. The sails were sheeted home, and hoisted to the mast-head, and the yards were braced so as to cant the ship's head to starboard. And again the long-drawn song was heard at the windlass, the anchor was rapidly hove up to the bows, and in a few minutes our gallant ship was standing down the river under a press of canvass.”
[Life on the Ocean; or, Twenty Years at Sea, Little, 1843]
George Little (1791-1849)

Note: Same author as The American Cruiser (above.)