. 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. eard of suchexperiences, as told by shipmates, but paid no attention tothem, considering them idle tales or dreams, but this wasright before my eyes, and Arthur was a truthful man, andreally believed that he saw the apparation, and the eventseemed to prove it. Whatever it may have been, thereseems little room for doubt of the fact. Who can accountfo
. 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. eard of suchexperiences, as told by shipmates, but paid no attention tothem, considering them idle tales or dreams, but this wasright before my eyes, and Arthur was a truthful man, andreally believed that he saw the apparation, and the eventseemed to prove it. Whatever it may have been, thereseems little room for doubt of the fact. Who can accountfor it ? At St. Helena we took in fresh water, provisions of allsorts that were to be had, and none too soon, for many ofthe crew were suffering from a too generous diet of salt-horse, and not a few had rattling teeth in answer to the 192 FUN ABOARD. demands of the sailors old-time enemy the scurvy. Amongother supplies, there were a number of shoats which affordedan immense amount of roaring fun to the sailors. When-ever the cook called for one the sailors in the watch werevery officious in getting one or more out of the long-boat,and, of course, one always managed to slip through thefingers of the fun-loving young Jack tars, and then the fun. PIG LOOSE ON DECK. began. All over the deck, from stem to stern, the livelyanimal was raced with ever so much effort at catching, butvery little intention of stopping the spree too soon. We received our orders to proceed to Genoa, in Italy,and accordingly weighed and set sail for that port, distantby rough reckoning about 6,000 miles. We carried the GIBRALTAR. I93 soueast trades with us as far as 6° north latitude, when, as isgenerally the case between the soueast and noreast trades,we got into a series of light baffling winds and heavy rains,with terrific thunder and lightning, interspersed with torridheat, till we struck the noreast trades, which we did afterour patience was nearly, but not quite, exhausted Strange to say, on this occasi
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