OR, INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY LIFE OF HAWSER MARTINGALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF TALES OF THE OCEAN," "SALT-WATER BUBBLES," ETC. "A SAILOR is a live book of travels. Check your own vanity, if you possibly can, CHARLES READE. BOSTON: CROSBY, NICHOLS, LEE AND COMPANY, 117 WASHINGTON STREet. F 2606.4 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY DANIEL B. FEARING 30 JUNE 1915 Ј Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by CROSBY, NICHOLS, LEE & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THE PREFACE. THIS book contains a plain and faithful account of the cruises, rambles, and adventures of the writer during eight years of his early life-between the years 1809 and 1817. It may not contain much which is extraordinary or exciting; but the pictures it furnishes of "life at sea," the illustrations it gives of the character of the sailor, the temptations by which he is surrounded, and the moral as well as physical dangers which beset him on every side, have at least the merit - I had almost said the novelty — of truth. JOHN S. SLEEPER. ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. INCONVENIENCE OF A QUEUE AT SEA, 2. DUEL BETWEEN TWO SPANIARDS,. 3. A BOAT-CHASE IN BOSTON HARBOR, 4. MRS. JOHNSON IDENTIFYING THE BREASTPIN, 5. CATCHING A TURTLE AT SEA, 6. DISTURBING A COLONY OF BATS,. 7. ATTACK ON THE GENERAL ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, 8. HAWSER PRACTISING GYMNASTICS,. CONTENTS. The Author's Ancestors.- Early Education and Nautical Tastes.-Thrown a Waif upon the Waters. An Opportunity to go to Sea. - A Kinsman's Kindness. Brig Dolphin, of Portsmouth. "My Native Land, Good A Deck-load in Olden Times. -Cabin Accommodations. - Calling the Watch. Serving out Grog. - Serving up Dinner. - Queues. A Cabin Boy's Duties Porpoises. Sail, ho!-A British Man-of-War. How to man the Wooden - - Excuse for steering wildly. - The Trade Winds. - Keep well to Windward. — Hats off. - Ocean Novelties. - Land, ho! — A Sea Serpent on the Quarter- deck. A Demarara Pilot. — Market Day on Sunday. - Sailors on Shore.— Stowing Molasses. - A Tragedy. - |