. 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. mous. The Sailors SnugHarbor, on Staten Island, New York, is a similar institution,with an enormous income, said to be more than any oneknows. Well, it is a source of comfort to poor Jack to feeland know that there are good berths ready for him when hishulk is disabled, and he can no longer brave the Storm Hood says: A Greenwich pensioner i
. 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. mous. The Sailors SnugHarbor, on Staten Island, New York, is a similar institution,with an enormous income, said to be more than any oneknows. Well, it is a source of comfort to poor Jack to feeland know that there are good berths ready for him when hishulk is disabled, and he can no longer brave the Storm Hood says: A Greenwich pensioner is a sort ofstranded marine animal, that the receding tide of life hasleft high and dry on the shore. He pines for his elementlike a sea bear, and misses his briny washings and the ocean could not do the land does, for it makes 58 LONDON. him sick; he cannot digest properly unless his body is rolledand tumbled about like a barrel-churn. Terra firma is goodenough to touch at for wood and water, but for nothingmore. While we were passing the Nore, off Sheerness, Stuartgave us an account of the famous mutiny of the British fleetin 1798, and pointed out the place where Queen Bessstood on an eminence while the Dutch fleet, under Van. IN DOCK. LONDON. Tromp, was destroying the English fleet, and she cried, Oh,my poor fleet! And there were many other notable ob-jects in view. Late in the afternoon we were laid alongsideof the Bashemere, an old Dutch man-of-war that was aban-doned by a squadron under the Dutch Admiral De Ruyter,who, after ravaging a part of London, and destroying animmense amount of shipping, retreated down the river,leaving his mark as he went. The General Heivitt was LONDON. 59 warped into Blackwall Basin, which lies between the Eastand West India docks, where she was securely ended my first voyage. Many years have passed sincethen, and nearly all of my old shipmates have long sincestood their last watch, and have departed for the land of the
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