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MY RECEPTION ABOARD IT WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and…
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SHIP FIRST AND foremost, I must give some account of the Julia herself; or "Little Jule," as the sailors familiarly styled her. She was a small barque of a beautiful m…
FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE JULIA OWING to the absence of anything like regular discipline, the vessel was in a state of the greatest uproar. The captain, having for some time past been more or less conf…
A SCENE IN THE FORECASTLE I HAD scarcely been aboard of the ship twenty-four hours, when a circumstance occurred, which, although noways picturesque, is so significant of the state of affairs that I…
WHAT HAPPENED AT HYTYHOO LESS than forty-eight hours after leaving Nukuheva, the blue, looming island of St. Christina greeted us from afar. Drawing near the shore, the grim, black spars and waspish…
WE TOUCH AT LA DOMINICA FEARFUL of spending another night at Hytyhoo, Captain Guy caused the ship to be got under way shortly after dark. The next morning, when all supposed that we were fairly emb…
WHAT HAPPENED AT HANNAMANOO ON the other side of the island was the large and populous bay of Hannamanoo, where the men sought might yet be found. But as the sun was setting by the time the boat cam…
THE TATTOOERS OF LA DOMINICA FOR a while leaving Little Jule to sail away by herself, I will here put down some curious information obtained from Hardy. The renegado had lived so long on the island…
WE STEER TO THE WESTWARD—STATE OF AFFAIRS THE night we left Hannamanoo was bright and starry, and so warm that, when the watches were relieved, most of the men, instead of going below, flung themsel…
A SEA-PARLOUR DESCRIBED, WITH SOME OF ITS TENANTS I MIGHT as well give some idea of the place in which the doctor and I lived together so sociably. Most persons know that a ship's forecastle e…
