. 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. BURLING SLIP, NEW YORK. Chapter XIV. Farewell! a word that must be, and hath beenA sound which makes us linger ; yet farewell!Ye who have traced the Wanderer to the sceneWhich is his last, if in your memories dwellA thought which once was his; if on ye swellA single recollection, not in vainHe wore his sandal shoon and scallop shell;Farewell! with h
. 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. BURLING SLIP, NEW YORK. Chapter XIV. Farewell! a word that must be, and hath beenA sound which makes us linger ; yet farewell!Ye who have traced the Wanderer to the sceneWhich is his last, if in your memories dwellA thought which once was his; if on ye swellA single recollection, not in vainHe wore his sandal shoon and scallop shell;Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain,If such there were—with you, the moral of his strain. In pursuance of my determination to make another longvoyage, I cast about for a ship for either India or China andmet Captain Cressy in New York one day, whom I hadknown in Whampoa thirty years previously as mate of theship Horatio of Boston, on board of which ship we, the crewof the JYiantic, on my first voyage to China, passed the nightwhile our ship was being smoked to clear out the rats. He recognized me at once by circumstances happening opthat memorable voyage of the JViantic, and telling me howhe was about to sail in a week or ten days, and was boundon
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