. 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. n Rouge, La 281 Chicken Thief 284 Custom Hoiise, New Orleans 285 Florida Fruits 292 Crescent City 294 Sailors Snug Harbor 296, 297 Temple Bar, London 298 New York from Brooklyn 309 Old Dutch Tavern 311 Rounding Cape Horn. .. 314 The Shell Vender 317 Senora Donato Lozano 321 Uncle Charles 327 Whampoans 336 Chinaman Flogged 338 Chinese Jug. 340 Fair S
. 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. n Rouge, La 281 Chicken Thief 284 Custom Hoiise, New Orleans 285 Florida Fruits 292 Crescent City 294 Sailors Snug Harbor 296, 297 Temple Bar, London 298 New York from Brooklyn 309 Old Dutch Tavern 311 Rounding Cape Horn. .. 314 The Shell Vender 317 Senora Donato Lozano 321 Uncle Charles 327 Whampoans 336 Chinaman Flogged 338 Chinese Jug. 340 Fair Story Teller 341 Arabian Dancing Girl 343 Street Scene in Whampoa 345 Captain John Stivers and Mate 347 Oriental Beauties 350 II ILLUSTRATIONS. Burling Slip, New York 352 Luxury Ashore 357 Panama 360 Golden Gate, 1849 362 San Francisco Bay, 1849 364 Where Captain Cook was Killed 366 Hindoo Cow and Calf 367 Jim Barney Regaling the Focastle 368 Chinese Rat Seller 371 Boabab Tree 374 Gathering Sugar Cane 376 Chinese Amusement 377 English Factories, Canton , -579 Welcome to Canton 380 Interior of Castle Garden, I851 381 Castle Garden from the Water, 1851 383 My First Mate 385 In 387 Full-rigged Ship 392 Names of Sails 393 A Mexican 394. IN THE FORETOP PREFACE. Cease, rude Boreas, blustering sailor,List, ye landsmen, all to me ;Messmates, hear a brother sailorTell the dangers of the sea, When, to the intense astonishment of my acquaintances, it was noisedabroad that I had determined to write the history of my life at sea, I wasoverwhelmed with advices and suggestions, not only widely differing fromone another, but utterly conflicting and irreconcilable. On one point, however, all my friends agreed ; that a preface was derigueur, and that to write a book without a preface would be as absurdas to play Hamlet without Ophelia. Slowly and sadly I yielded a reluctant assent, and hence these few my patrons pass them over unread, I shall be the last to blamethem, for I b
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