. 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. 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-bla
. 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. 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. MONKEY MERCHANT. broad bosom of the mighty Indian Ocean, staggering alongat a lively gait under a press of sail, with a favorable galefrom the eastard, which carried us nearly up to the Cape ofGood Hope, making the passage from Anjer in twenty-eightdays. There we encountered heavy westerly winds for two 256 FIRE ISLAND. weeks, lying to most of the time, till, with the aid of thewesterly current, we at last doubled the Cape, after thatthe soueast trades sent us a kiting once more with everystitch of canvas set.) Topmast, togallant, and royal stun-sails both sides, and fore, main, and mizen standing, sky-sails, with a flying mainmoon-sail, with lower stunsails,which we carried up to 150 north latitude, when, taking thenoreast trades, hauled in the larboard stunsails, bracing upthe yards by the larboard braces, with the wind abeam,carried the noreast trades up to 280 north latitude, where,losing the trade winds, we fell in with variable but lightwinds. The latter part of the passage took
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