““Take in the mainsail!” “Go aloft and take a reef in the maintop!” “In with the fore-main, and let the trysail run!” followed each other in haste, as the sailors moved to the cheering music of their songs in the work of preparing the ship to wrestle with a southwester. Everything being made snug, we waited its coming.”
[Travels in the Californias, and Scenes in the Pacific Ocean, Farnham, 1844]
Thomas J. Farnham (1804 –– 1848)


“SALOMA OU CELEUMA, é a cantìga, ou gritaria que fazem os marinheiros, quando alam algum cabo; isto é prohibido nos navios de guerra.
SALOMEAR, celeumear.”
[Novo Diccionario da Marinha de Guerra e Mercante, Freitas, 1855]