ISBN: 9780217240116

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1843. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... view I now began to take of things, was the effect of drink. It was necessary for me to get to sea, for there I was shut out from all excesses, by discipline and necessity. After looking around us, and debating the matter among ourselves, a party of five of us shipped in the Stadtdeel. What the others contemplated I do not know, but it was my intention to double Good Hope, and never to return. Chances enough would offer on the other side, to make a man comfortable, and I was no stranger to the ways of that quarter of the world. I could find enough to do between Bombay and Canton ; and, if I could not, there were the islands and all of the Pacific before me. I could do a seaman''s whole duty, was now in tolerable health and strength, and knew that such men were always wanted. Wherever a ship goes, Jack must go with her; and ships, dollars, and hogs, are now to be met with all over the globe. '' The Stadtdeel lay at Dort, and we went to that place to join her. She was not ready for sea; and, as things moved Dutchman fashion, slow and sure, we were about six weeks at Dort before she sailed. This ship was a vessel of the size of a frigate, and carried twelve guns. She had a crew of about forty souls, which was being very short-handed. The ship''s company was a strange mixture of seamen, though most of them came from the north of Europe. Among us were Russians, Danes, Swedes, Prussians, English, Americans, and but a very few Dutch. One of the mates, and two of the petty officers, could speak a little English. This made us eight who could converse in that language. We had to learn Dutch as well as we could, and made out tolerably well. Before the ship sailed, I could understand the common orders, without much difficulty. Indeed, the language is nothing but English a litt... James Fenimore Cooper, Books, Fiction and Literature, Ned Myers (volume 1); Or, A Life Before The Mast Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

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