“...and the cries of itinerant venders of iced sherbet along the shore were re-echoed by the capstan songs of the sailors on board the anchored vessels.”
[Poore, The Russian Guardsman, Gleason's Pictorial, vol.6, no.1, 7 Jan 1854]

“...but in a trice the drum was heard, as the crew hurried around the capstan, while the top-men, busily engaged in furling sail an instant previous, hastened to undo their labors.”
[Poore, The Russian Guardsman, Gleason's Pictorial, vol.6, no.7, 18 Feb. 1854]
Benjamin Perley Poore (1820 –– 1887)