. 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. ul shawls out of a case containing seven, and onedozen silk handkerchiefs out of a case of five dozen. Re-membering also that in many cases silence is golden, I con-cluded to follow that wise maxim, and said nothing to anyone about the matter, but stowed my plunder in my mattrassin my hammock well protected from the sea air, until Iarrived in New Yo
. 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. ul shawls out of a case containing seven, and onedozen silk handkerchiefs out of a case of five dozen. Re-membering also that in many cases silence is golden, I con-cluded to follow that wise maxim, and said nothing to anyone about the matter, but stowed my plunder in my mattrassin my hammock well protected from the sea air, until Iarrived in New York. This seaman, Murray, was about toexchange the following day for an American seaman on boarda Liverpool ship bound for that port, and on the point ofsailing, so he wished to feather his nest, and thought thepresent was his best opportunity. 254 ANJER. Having completed our lading we were soon ready for sea,when we unmoored, and, with a native pilot, made sailand worked down the river, and finally to sea, with thenoreast monsoon astern of us. We packed every stitch ofcanvas on her that would draw, and in twelve days came toat Anjer, in the Straits of Sunda, and furled sails. We re-mained there about a week, filling water from the shore and. PROCESSION—ANJER. stocking the ship with fine poultry. Captain Benson, com-bining business with pleasure, took a trip .to Batavia, thecrew meanwhile trading for joggery (native sugar, not un-like maple), Java sparrows and monkeys, as a little specula-tion, in barter for sundry odds and ends in the way of cast-offclothing, broken knifes and razor-blades. I procured a largenumber of Java sparrows and a few monkeys, some of which INDIAN OCEAN. ^55 were white-faced. Most of them, particularly the white-faced ones, died; and about half of the sparrows, from thecold, in doubling the Cape of Good Hope. When the captain returned, we weighed anchor, madesail, and, standing through the straits, soon were on the
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