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Title: Recollections of a sea wanderer's life; an autobiography of an old-time seaman who has sailed in almost every capacity before and abaft the mast, in nearly every quarter of the globe, and under the flags of four of the principal maritime nations
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Davis, George, b. 1821
Subjects: Seafaring life
Publisher: New York, A. H. Kellogg, printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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SLOOP. on board, and, as words ran high, I announced my deter-mination to leave the brig there and then. In this I wasjoined by the first mate, a Mr. Brown, of South Yarmouth,Cape Cod, and, procuring a whale-boat with a lug-sail froman acquaintance, made the passage to his home on the Cape, NEW LONDON. 263 through a passage or some sort of straits back of Newport,in a day and part of a night, with a nice breeze from thewestard most of the time at sea. Mate Brown gave me a sailors welcome to his home,which I availed myself of, and remained some days, when abrig in distress and dismasted, bound for Boston, put intoHyannes, and I was engaged to assist in refitting and together ship-shape for sea service, as also to assist in navigatingher round to Boston, which was all accomplished in threeweeks. On being paid by the underwriters for my services, I tookthe train for New York, via New London by boat. As I got on the wharf at New London to go on board theboat for New York, I was met and re

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