Identifier: merchantvesselsa1884nord (find matches)
Title: The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 LaPlante, Charles. egr Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931. ill Dodd, Mead & Company. pbl
Subjects: Boys Conduct of life Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Merchant ships Seafaring life Sailing Slavery
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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with bales ofcinnamon and sacks of nutmegs. The next seems the deposi-tory of all the indigo in the world. Here is hemp, and thereis cotton ; yonder, bales of costly silks, and farther on, iron.There is no end to either the variety or quantity of goods-All possible and impossible things seem here brought in con-junction. But let us take a look at the shipping. No nation thathas a ship is unrepresented here — no part of the earth thathas a seaport but may be visited from here at short notice.Archangel or the Cape of Good Hope, New York or Cal-cutta, China or California, St. Petersburg or the Guinea Coast,Valparaiso or Constantinople, whither will you go ? Here areships for all and many more. And this is only one of thesmallest of her docks. Truly, he who visits London and doesnot see her docks, misses one of the most interesting and in-structive of hejr. many sights. In a few days after entering the docks, we began to takein car«-o for Boston. We had determined to leave the vessel,
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THE RETK/HUTION. 123 survey of those who in the last few hours had sent their officto their last accounts. Ill do it—I must—I will? said Chips. He went to histool-chest standing on the half-deck, and took thence a large,sharp, glittering broad-axe. One after another, with this axe, hecut off ten heads, not stopping till the last headless trunk wasstruggling before him, and he was left the sole living person onboard. Now he in turn cleared away, dragging the bodies to thegangway, and there threw them overboard—a tedious task. Thisdone, and the blood-stained deck once more washed off, andhe had time to think. He was alone on board a largevessel—no one but he to steer, to make or take in sail, orperform the multifarious duties incident to the sea, such astrimming the sails to the breeze, etc. His determination wassoon taken. He let the topsails run down on the caps, clewedup, and furled as well as he was able the topgallantsails androyals, and then lashing the helm amidships, so

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