Jack in the Forecastle: Or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale [pseud.]Crosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860 - 452 Seiten |
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... course of my desultory reading , I had learned that vessels at sea were liable to " spring a leak , " which was one of the most dreaded perils of navigation ; and I had a vague notion that the hold of a ship was always so arranged that ...
... course of my desultory reading , I had learned that vessels at sea were liable to " spring a leak , " which was one of the most dreaded perils of navigation ; and I had a vague notion that the hold of a ship was always so arranged that ...
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... course of an hour the murky clouds had disappeared , the sun shone out brightly as it was sinking towards the horizon , and the brig was again pursuing her way towards her destined port , urged slowly along by a light but favorable ...
... course of an hour the murky clouds had disappeared , the sun shone out brightly as it was sinking towards the horizon , and the brig was again pursuing her way towards her destined port , urged slowly along by a light but favorable ...
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... course , with the American en- sign flying , our captain hoping that this emissary of John Bull , seeing the character of our vessel , which no one could mistake , would suffer us to pass on our way unmolested , when a volume of flame ...
... course , with the American en- sign flying , our captain hoping that this emissary of John Bull , seeing the character of our vessel , which no one could mistake , would suffer us to pass on our way unmolested , when a volume of flame ...
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... course for Demarara . Steering to the southward , we reached that narrow belt of the Atlantic , called " the doldrums , " which lies between the variable and the trade winds . This tract is from two to three degrees in width , and is ...
... course for Demarara . Steering to the southward , we reached that narrow belt of the Atlantic , called " the doldrums , " which lies between the variable and the trade winds . This tract is from two to three degrees in width , and is ...
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... course nearly north - west , carrying studding - sails on both sides , uninterruptedly , through fifteen or twenty degrees of latitude . The cause of the trade winds is supposed to be the joint influence of the higher temperature of the ...
... course nearly north - west , carrying studding - sails on both sides , uninterruptedly , through fifteen or twenty degrees of latitude . The cause of the trade winds is supposed to be the joint influence of the higher temperature of the ...
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alongside anchor appearance Bartholomew beneath boarding house boat boatswain Bohun Boston bound breeze brig British cabin called Cape Captain Moncrieff Captain Thompson Captain Turner capture cargo casks character chest chief mate coast commander Corunna crew deck Demarara Dolphin duties English excited eyes Fedon feet felucca fish forecastle friends frigate furnished gale gave Grand Bank Grenada Gulf Stream hand harbor hauled Hawser head hurricane indulged island Jonas La Guayra labors land Lapwing looked man-of-war Martinico mate miles morning mountains never night ocean officers passage passed Pearl estate pilot plantations pleasant port privateer proceeded reached received remarkable replied returned sail sailor schooner seamen seemed seen seized shark ship ship's company shipmates shore sloop sloop-of-war soon Stetson Strictland supercargo tion told took trade wind voyage watch weather West Indies wharf wind windward Windward Islands Yankee yellow fever
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Seite 399 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 126 - When orient dews impearl the enamell'd lawn ; Than from his sides in bright suffusion flow, That now with gold empyreal seem to glow ; Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, And emulate the soft celestial hue ; Now beam a flaming crimson on the eye, And now assume the...
Seite 132 - As soon as I recovered my breath, the bandage was removed from my eyes, and I found myself floating in the long-boat, which had been nearly filled with water for the occasion, and surrounded by as jovial a set of fellows as ever played off a practical joke. Old Neptune proved to be Jim Sinclair, of Marblehead, but so disguised that his own mother could not have known him. His ill-favored and weather-beaten visage was covered with streaks of paint, like the face of a wild Indian on the war-path. He...
Seite 198 - ... nothing of human life is seen, where its existence only is inferred by the rude wooden cross or stone-piled cairn, which marks the unconsecrated grave of some traveller who has been waylaid there alone, murdered, and sent to his account with all his imperfections on his head. However confidently we have relied on past experience that such would not be our fate, yet these sorts of Spanish milestones marked with memento mori, are awkward evidences that the thing is not altogether impossible. It...
Seite 132 - ... filled with water for the occasion, and surrounded by as jovial a set of fellows as ever played off a practical joke. Old Neptune proved to be Jim Sinclair, of Marblehead, but so disguised that his own mother could not have known him. His ill-favored and weather-beaten visage was covered with streaks of paint, like the face of a wild Indian on the war-path. He had a thick beard made of oakum ; and a wig of rope-yarns, the curls hanging gracefully on his shoulders, was surmounted with a paper...
Seite 91 - And the gold orange through the dark foliage glows. A soft wind flutters from the deep blue sky. The myrtle blooms, and towers the laurel high ? Knowest thou it well ? O there with thee, O that I might, my own beloved one, flee...
Seite 160 - Never mind," said Allen, one day, when sent on some useless mission in the vicinity of the knight-heads, while the ship was plunging violently, and sending cataracts of salt water over the bowsprit at every dive; "never mind, it will be only for a single passage." "I know that," said Stetson, with an oath; "and I will take good care to 'work you up
Seite 131 - ... Neptune on deck, to which we prisoners listened with much interest. The slide of the scuttle was removed, and orders given for one of the " strangers" to come on deck and be shaved. Anxious to develop the mystery and be qualified to bear a part in the frolic, I pressed forward; but as soon as my hand appeared above the rim of the scuttle I was seized, blindfolded, and led to the main deck, where I was urged, by a press of politeness I could not withstand, to be seated on a plank. 7. The process...
Seite 33 - A public ship carries no protection for her men but her flag. I do not expect to succeed in the contest with you ; but I will die at my quarters before a man shall be taken from the ship.
Seite 127 - Where there are two matrons, one matron shall be on duty in the jail from eight o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the evening...