. Recollections of a sea wanderer's life; an autobiography of an old-time seaman who has sailed in almost every capacity before and abaft the mast, in nearly every quarter of the globe, and under the flags of four of the principal maritime nations. How-ever much it may effect the presence of reptiles in fields, itdoes not entirely banish them from the heads of the people,whose delirium tremens was of the genuine type. This ship-mate was as good as a cyclopaedia or a dictionary to all inthe focastle. He was a graduate of Columbia College, NewYork, and had studied law. His father, Samuel Myers,
. Recollections of a sea wanderer's life; an autobiography of an old-time seaman who has sailed in almost every capacity before and abaft the mast, in nearly every quarter of the globe, and under the flags of four of the principal maritime nations. How-ever much it may effect the presence of reptiles in fields, itdoes not entirely banish them from the heads of the people,whose delirium tremens was of the genuine type. This ship-mate was as good as a cyclopaedia or a dictionary to all inthe focastle. He was a graduate of Columbia College, NewYork, and had studied law. His father, Samuel Myers, wasa merchant, and gave his son a good start in life, but Sam,Junior, preferred roaming over the deep, deep sea to litigat-ing on shore, and so he did duty for us who had been lessfortunate in book-learning. He said he sailed from one portto another until he made the one he wished to study next,and then he got discharged or deserted, and stayed as longas he liked, or until his money was gone, when he shippedagain. A dozen years of such a roving life had stored his CALLAO. 3*7 mind with rich treasures from many countries, and he wouldbe a valuable man in many places. When we landed atCallao he received a letter from home with the news that a. THE rich aunt had left him a snug fortune, $50,000 or more, and-he answered the letter, sending his reply by the Britishsteamer then in port, at an expense of $ an ounce or less, 318 CALLAO. to New York. He started back by the Panama route and Ihave not heard from him since. We next dropped anchor at Callao, which is the portof Lima, capital of Peru. It is built on a tongue of land,and the harbor is protected by the barren island of SanLorenzo on the west. The houses are nearly all of mudwalls with flat roofs, but there are strong forts. The oldtown of Callao was destroyed by an earthquake about acentury before my visit, and they point out its ruins underthe water not far from the site of the modern leave to go
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