“The Steamer is off; ––Captain perched upon the wheel house, keeps a wary eye around, and gives hoarse, hurried orders through a speaking trumpet;––men in red shirts clatter rapidly about the deck;— heavy hawsers are let go and fall with a splash into the water, and sailors with a merry “yo-heave-ho,” haul and coil them on board.––...”
[The Orange Peddler, The Pioneer Or, California Monthly Magazine, 1854]


“The shallop grates high on the glist'ning sand,––
They mount; again it leaves the shallow strand;
With well-plied oar it cleaves the watery way,
And hails the vessel moor'd within the bay:
The capstan creaks, and sounds the sailor's song,
As merrily the anchor's heaved along….”
[The Masked Prisoner, Poems By Thomas Olindee, 1854]