. 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. utmost confines of civilization, amongbushmen, and even there, eighty miles from a post office, ashe writes. The old proverb says, A rolling stone gathers no moss,and we three brothers have been rolling stones. But thenwe did not want any moss. We live in the present moment,this world, and our motto is, One world at a time. Livewhile you may live is
. 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. utmost confines of civilization, amongbushmen, and even there, eighty miles from a post office, ashe writes. The old proverb says, A rolling stone gathers no moss,and we three brothers have been rolling stones. But thenwe did not want any moss. We live in the present moment,this world, and our motto is, One world at a time. Livewhile you may live is an old Roman saying which animatedthe great Caesars legions. And yet it cannot truthfully besaid that I have no moss. My early education was limitedby my going to sea at the very time I might have gone tocollege, and when the store of knowledge left us by theancient Greeks and Romans had been but dimly seen by mein the distance, as something to be gained and enjoyed inafter years. I fondly expected that a seaman would havemany hours of leisure in which I could read and completewhat had been merely begun in the schools of Montreal. I ?:?. ; li 3i! BSHR WSSm ill An liiHiBii Plilll :,: ,;????? :;,?;?:?? IhHI I llliill fe. 1111 .1*1X1 388 KING ALCOHOL. knew a little of Julius Caesar as the conqueror of ancientFrance (Gaul), and of the Rhine Germans, and of the poetsof the Augustan age at Rome. Of the Greek authors muchless is possible to the young student, and I had barelygone through the grammar and first reader. But I hadtasted the sweets of the fountain of knowledge, and had athirst for more, and that thirst, or desire, to know moreabout the world of men and things around us has been amonitor and help in many a time of trial and temptation. The great enemy of every sailor is King Alcohol, how-ever he may operate, whether as whisky, rum, gin, brandy,or the finely sweetened and perfumed liquors and cordials;his work is deceitful, alluring, disappointing, and, if per-sisted in, al
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