. 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. t. Flying jib. 2. Jib. 3. Foretop-mast-stay sail. 4. Fore sail. 5. Foretop sail. 6. Foretop-gallant sail. 7. Fore-royal. 8. Fore sky sail. 9. Royal studding sail. 10. Foretop-gallant studding sail. 11. Foretop-mast studding sail. 12. Main sail. 13. Maintop sail. |5= *5« ^^B>3^jjjjSs^^*5^~-** 14- Maintop-gallant sail. IS- Main-royal. 16. Main sky
. 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. t. Flying jib. 2. Jib. 3. Foretop-mast-stay sail. 4. Fore sail. 5. Foretop sail. 6. Foretop-gallant sail. 7. Fore-royal. 8. Fore sky sail. 9. Royal studding sail. 10. Foretop-gallant studding sail. 11. Foretop-mast studding sail. 12. Main sail. 13. Maintop sail. |5= *5« ^^B>3^jjjjSs^^*5^~-** 14- Maintop-gallant sail. IS- Main-royal. 16. Main sky sail. *7- Main-royal studding sail. 18. Maintop-gallant studding sai 19. Maintop-mast studding sail. 20. Crossjack. 21. Crossjack-top sail. 22. Crossjack-top-gallant sail. 23- Crossjack-royal. 24. Crossjack sky sail. 25. A MEXICAN. Chapter XV. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles—the less theyhave in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.—Pope. After reading a captains book on the same topic as mine,recently published, and enjoying many a hearty laugh atand over it and him, I feel moved as if by a familiar breezeto sail into him. But on second thought I only owe him fora litrie exquisite pleasure which is genuine, and cannot com-plain of the want of seamanship noticeable in the littlevolume for that is not genuine, and of course I dont owehim for that. I only said Oh ! when I read the funnyand stupid passages and so paid my debt to the all, however, for I shall eternally owe him for a sug-gestion as to story telling, which is the occasion for thissupplementary chapter, a sort of fifteenth amendment. Ifmy readers wish to be prepared beforehand as to the char-acter of the stories I tell, it will be well to read the editorsbook drawer in Harpers for Augu
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