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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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enabling my worthy chum, George, to relievehimself of his superfluous bile, I think I never enjoyed any voy-age so much as this in the brig Ocean. Our course laythrough a nearly uninterrupted succession of fine weather, inwhich the dark little forecastle was almost entirely deserted,and we all slept and lived on deck. We were as nearly ourown masters as it is good for sailors to be, and with anexperienced and thoroughly united crew, we could scarcely failof being tolerably contented. As for myself, I lived in an atmosphere of romance. Thevoyage was a novel one, and quite out of the usual line ofsuch sailors as I had been most among. And the past expe-riences of my shipmates, as communicated to one another andto me in the pleasant dog-watches, as we lay on deck in thehalf light of the bright stars, with soft zephyrs wafting usalong, were an inexhaustible source of interest to me. Some of these men had not been the other side of theCape of Good Hope for many years. They had sailed from
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PIT< YARNING. 2 3 I Sydney, in every direction, to the most out-of-the-way places,and on the strangest errands. India, China, the Ladrones, thePhilippines, and the island world of the South Pacific : withall they were familiar, of each they had something to relate.Here I he.ard over again the story of the Christian settlementon Pitcairns Island, which had formed one of our Sunday-school volumes at home. But how much pleasanter to listento the tale as it had been told one of my shipmates by adescendant of Thursday October Christian himself. Numberlesswhaling adventures, fights with savages, and incidents in thestrange voyages of the country ships, as well as one or twoexperiences of life on the cattle and sheep farms—the relationof these occupied our idle time, and afforded me many pleas-ant hours. I was the youngest seaman on board, and found no diffi-culty in making myself a favorite among my older shipmates,by readiness in jumping aloft when light sails were to beloosed or furl

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