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Title: The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 LaPlante, Charles. egr Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931. ill Dodd, Mead & Company. pbl
Subjects: Boys Conduct of life Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Merchant ships Seafaring life Sailing Slavery
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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eating up to Gravesend, a time during whichwe got but little sleep, and although perhaps, on the whole,less uncomfortable than during the previous portions of ourpassage, were almost continually on deck, exposed to the dampair, and handling wet ropes, heaving the lead when the linefroze as we hauled it in, and working with muddy chains andanchors. Passing the buoy at the Nore, whose miserable fate hasbeen so comically lamented by Hood, and which marks thescene of the great mutiny, when Englands wooden walls hadnearly been turned against her, we finally reached Gravesend.Having brought us to anchor here, our pilots office ceased,and he went ashore. The brig was now thoroughly searched by custom-houseofficers, one of whom remained on board until the cargo wasout. We had been hailed times without number, on ourpassage up. bv tow-boats desirous to take us up to London,which would have relieved the crew of an immense deal ofsevere labor, besides materially expediting our progress ; but our
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HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. JORDIES. stingy Yankee skipper took counsel with his po u«l having the men to feed and pay at any rale,- as he said,the pilots infinite disgust, preferred to beat up. We had now, however, arrived at the head of all suchnavigation as that. The Thames, from Grave-send to London,outdoes even the Mississippi in the number and acuteness fits turns, or reaches, as they are called, and but one civessels pretend to sail up from here. These are the colliers,the Jordies, who, in their dirty-looking brigs (the brig is thefavorite and only rig of a true Jordie collier-man) work upslowly from reach to reach, taking perhaps a week to makethe distance from Gravesend to the city. These collier men are a peculiar set. Familiar from child-hood with all the intricacies of channel navigation, they worktheir way with singular dexterity through the immense fleetof shipping of all nations that at all times congregates here,often nearly blocking up the upper portion of the chan

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