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The Merchant Vessel: A Sailor Boy's Voyages Around the World

The Merchant Vessel: A Sailor Boy's Voyages Around the World

Charles Nordhoff
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: . §, a m I -SfilPi fat.lsP.'S - ,s,s, Jw isiia%iHrtiii, T T w 9 and hammock, and we slipped our moorings and ran out past the Moro Castle, with a fine breeze. We were six hands in the forecastle, two Portuguese, three Spaniards, and nn American. I had the mid-watch on deck. On turning out at seven bells the next morning, 1 went on deck, to take a daylight look at the craft in which I had shiplicd, as, it being a dark night when I came on board, I had been able to see but little of her. 1 found her a remarkably sharp, clipper-built vessel, evidently calculated to sail at a great rate, and a glance at the long, tapering spars, and the immense spread of her topsails, convinced me that she had never been built for a wine drogher. " The captain was an Englishman, the mate a Scotchman—which rather surprised me, as the vessel showed Spanish colors. They carried a press of canvas from the first, and paid more attention to the steering than is usual among that class of vessels. Altogether, 1 felt as though, if she were a wine drogher, sho had gotten strangely out of place—but, of course, I never suspected what was her true business. But the third day out told the whole story. On coming on deck that morning, I found, to my great surprise, some sixteen or seventeen men besides our regular crew congregated on the topgallant forecastle, and about the foremast, among them 1 recognized several Havana acquaintances, who seemed somewhat surprised to see me there. From them I got an inkling of what was in the wind; but the whole matter was explained to me after breakfast. "'Send Anton to the wheel,' was the word passed toA CRUISE IN A SLAVER. 49 the forecastle, and I proceeded aft. Arrived there, the captain and supercargo laid before me the real purpose of the voyage—declared...
Language
English
Pages
306
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1855
ISBN 13
9785518676916

The Merchant Vessel: A Sailor Boy's Voyages Around the World

Charles Nordhoff
0/5 ( ratings)
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: . §, a m I -SfilPi fat.lsP.'S - ,s,s, Jw isiia%iHrtiii, T T w 9 and hammock, and we slipped our moorings and ran out past the Moro Castle, with a fine breeze. We were six hands in the forecastle, two Portuguese, three Spaniards, and nn American. I had the mid-watch on deck. On turning out at seven bells the next morning, 1 went on deck, to take a daylight look at the craft in which I had shiplicd, as, it being a dark night when I came on board, I had been able to see but little of her. 1 found her a remarkably sharp, clipper-built vessel, evidently calculated to sail at a great rate, and a glance at the long, tapering spars, and the immense spread of her topsails, convinced me that she had never been built for a wine drogher. " The captain was an Englishman, the mate a Scotchman—which rather surprised me, as the vessel showed Spanish colors. They carried a press of canvas from the first, and paid more attention to the steering than is usual among that class of vessels. Altogether, 1 felt as though, if she were a wine drogher, sho had gotten strangely out of place—but, of course, I never suspected what was her true business. But the third day out told the whole story. On coming on deck that morning, I found, to my great surprise, some sixteen or seventeen men besides our regular crew congregated on the topgallant forecastle, and about the foremast, among them 1 recognized several Havana acquaintances, who seemed somewhat surprised to see me there. From them I got an inkling of what was in the wind; but the whole matter was explained to me after breakfast. "'Send Anton to the wheel,' was the word passed toA CRUISE IN A SLAVER. 49 the forecastle, and I proceeded aft. Arrived there, the captain and supercargo laid before me the real purpose of the voyage—declared...
Language
English
Pages
306
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1855
ISBN 13
9785518676916

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