Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea . it out for severalhours, pitching at her anchor, and standing with her sternup almost perpendicularly. The men told me that theywatched her till towards night, when she snapped her cableand drove up over the breakers, high and dry upon thebeach. On board the Pilgrim, everything went on regularly, eachone trying to get along as smoothly as possible; but thecomfort of the voyage was evidently at an end. That isa long lane which has no turning — Every dog must havehis day, and mine will come by-and-by — and the likeproverbs, were oc
Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea . it out for severalhours, pitching at her anchor, and standing with her sternup almost perpendicularly. The men told me that theywatched her till towards night, when she snapped her cableand drove up over the breakers, high and dry upon thebeach. On board the Pilgrim, everything went on regularly, eachone trying to get along as smoothly as possible; but thecomfort of the voyage was evidently at an end. That isa long lane which has no turning — Every dog must havehis day, and mine will come by-and-by — and the likeproverbs, were occasionally quoted; but no one spoke ofany probable end to the voyage, or of Boston, or anythingof the kind; or if he did, it was only to draw out the per-petual, surly reply from his shipmate — Boston, is it? THE CAPTAIN ORDERED HIM TO BE CUTDOWN San Pedro abo: le at a .noment, told m --?,5terb, ..more to ? Ml^(te^e> that me;meu. witii me roam o* r, ke over tbe Dead Man^there, . /^iT, It an er ? Ucl- Lu:-- :-L^ Eve- ne will c<me hv-and-bv. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST 117 You may thank your stars if you ever see that place. Youhad better have your back sheathed, and your head cop-pered, and your feet shod, and make out your log for Cali-fornia for life ! or else something of this kind — Beforeyou get to Boston the hides will wear all the hair off yourhead, and youll take up all your wages in clothes, andwont have enough left to buy a wig with ! The flogging was seldom if ever alluded to by us, in theforecastle. If any one was inclined to talk about it, theothers, with a delicacy which I hardly expected to findamong them, always stopped him, or turned the the behavior of the two men who were flogged towardone another showed a delicacy and a sense of honor, whichwould have been worthy of admiration in the highest walksof life. Sam knew that the other had suffered solely onhis account, and in all his complaints, he said that if he alonehad been flogged,
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