[27] If the reader wishes to know why seamen wear their hats on the back of their heads, let him put his hat on as usual and ascend a ladder. He will find himself unable to look up until he places it on the _back of his head_ as a sailor does. Sailors wear their hats thus, because they could not otherwise ascend the rigging of a ship. [28] Edward T. Taylor (1793-1871). From 1800 to 1817 he was a sailor. In 1819 he became a Methodist clergyman. In 1827 he served as chaplain on the _Macedonian_, which took supplies to the famishing Irish people. He was a pastor in Boston during the rest of his life, was known as “Father Taylor,” and was a most successful worker, particularly among seamen.--(ED.) [29] Rev. Joel Hawes (1789-1867), for forty-six years pastor of the First Congregational Church. [30] Rev. Wilbur Fisk (1792-1839), one of the greatest Methodists America has known. [31] It will be _á propos_ to here quote a letter from Thoreau to his sister Sophia, describing Emerson’s quarters on board the packet-ship _Washington Irving_, on which he sailed from Boston in 1847: “I went to Boston to see Mr. E. off. His stateroom was like a carpeted dark closet, about six feet square, with a large key-hole for a window. The window was about as big as a saucer, and the glass two inches thick--not to mention another skylight overhead in the deck, of the size of an oblong doughnut and about as opaque; of course it would be in vain to look up if any promenader had his foot upon it. Such will be his quarters for two or three weeks,” etc. Such were _first-class_ accommodations six years after Leech made his voyage, with a certainty of being at least twenty days cooped up thus, and possibly _seventy-five_, as we shall see actually occurred on his return. [ED]. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example, top-sail, topsail; boot-making, bootmaking; fire-side, fireside; phrensied; disparted; yclept; wofully; apostacy; whisky.