Our carpenter being prepared to grave the outside of the ship, aswell as to pay the seams where he had caulked her to stop theleaks, had got two kettles just let down into the boat, one filledwith boiling pitch, and the other with rosin, tallow, and oil, andsuch stuff as the shipwrights use for that work; and the man thatattended the carpenter had a great iron ladle in his hand, withwhich he supplied the men that were at work with the hot stuff.Two of the enemy's men entered the boat just where this fellowstood in the foresheets; he immediately saluted them with a ladlefull of the stuff, boiling hot which so burned and scalded them,being half-naked that they roared out like bulls, and, enraged withthe fire, leaped both into the sea. The carpenter saw it, andcried out, "Well done, Jack! give them some more of it!" andstepping forward himself, takes one of the mops, and dipping it inthe pitch-pot, he and his man threw it among them so plentifullythat, in short, of all the men in the three boats, there was no