Two-masted vessels, fore and aft rigged, sometimes having square topsails on the fore-mast.] [Illustration: BRIGANTINE. A two-masted vessel, square rigged on fore-mast.] GALLEY. A large vessel rowed by oars and sometimes having auxiliary sail of various rigs. PINK. Probably a small, fast vessel used as a tender and despatch boat for river work. [Illustration: SNOW. A two-masted vessel with a stay, known as a "Horse," from the main-mast to the poop on which the trysail was set. Sometimes a spar was fitted instead of a stay. The rig was most likely of a brig (_i.e._, a two-masted ship, square sails on both masts), and the triangular trysail set on the stay in bad weather or when hove to.] C. L. F. [Illustration] THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN AVERY He was the son of _John Avery_, a victualler near _Plymouth_, in _Devonshire_, who in a few years was grown as opulent in his purse as in his body, by scoring two for one; and when he had so done, drinking the most of the liquor himself. By which means, and having a handsome wife, who knew her business as well as if she had been brought up to it from a child (which, indeed, she mostly was, her mother keeping the House before she married _Mr. Avery_), they soon became very rich and very able to give credit to a whole ship's crew upon their tickets, which in those days were sold for less than half their value. Having but one child (afterwards the Captain), they at first resolved to bring him up a scholar, that he might advance the dignity of the family. But instead of learning his book, he was taught by such companions that he could soon swear to every point of his compass, which was a very diverting scene for the Boatswain and his crew, who were then drinking in the kitchen, having just received ten pounds apiece short allowance money on board the _Revenge_, every farthing of which they spent before leaving the house.