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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
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nd set asmall tarpaulin in the main rigging, and under this lay-tosecurely until the gale had abated somewhat. Yet ten days of pumping and steering, and the numerousvessels coming in view, as well as the the dense fogs, pro-claimed the vicinity of land. As we entered the mouth of theBritish Channel the gale decreased, but the weather was muchmore uncomfortable, on account of its dampness; and as wekept watch at night in our salt-water-soaked clothing, I feltsometimes as though the marrow was congealing in my bones.With a fair breeze on the next day after entering the Channelwe got up to Beachy Head, where we lav becalmed for anafternoon, anxiously peering through the fog for a pilot-boat.While King here, a steamer passed us on her way up. Itseemed hard to us, as she paddled past, to think that she wouldbe in London probably that night vet, while we might, shouldwe take a bead-wind, beat about there for a week, and, after all,uo ashore on some of the English cliffy. I never before SO %
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THE BRITISH CHANNEL. badly wished myself out of any scrape, and determined, as ind<did all the crew, that if we once got the crazy old brig safelyto London, incontinent^ to leave her there. That nisrht we p-ot a little farther ahead, and in the mid-watch fortunately got a Dungeness or deep-sea pilot, as thesecalled, in contradistinction to the river men, who arc known asmud pilots. This was an immense relief to us, as our captain,who had never before made a foreign voyage, was totally unac-quainted with the Channel, and had, for the last two days, beenchasing every vessel that hove in sight, to find out our where-abouts, the constant fogs preventing him from getting an obser-vation. We ran into the Downs, and there anchored until the tideshould serve, as, when the breeze arose, it was dead ahead, givingus a prospect of beating all the way up to Gravesend, the realentrance to the river Thames, and the port of the citv ofLondon. The deep-sea pilots in the English Channel are a peculi

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