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THE PURSUIT OF POETRY UNDER DIFFICULTIES. The feeling of insecurity concerning one’s possessions in the Neversink, which the things just narrated begat in the minds of honest men, was curiously exemp…
THE GOOD OR BAD TEMPER OF MEN-OF-WAR’S MEN, IN A GREAT DEGREE, ATTRIBUTABLE TO THEIR PARTICULAR STATIONS AND DUTIES ABOARD SHIP. Quoin, the quarter-gunner, was the representative of a class on board …
A MAN-OF-WAR HERMIT IN A MOB. The allusion to the poet Lemsford in a previous chapter, leads me to speak of our mutual friends, Nord and Williams, who, with Lemsford himself, Jack Chase, and my comra…
A DRAUGHT IN A MAN-OF-WAR. We were not many days out of port, when a rumour was set afloat that dreadfully alarmed many tars. It was this: that, owing to some unprecedented oversight in the Purser, o…
A SALT-JUNK CLUB IN A MAN-OF-WAR, WITH A NOTICE TO QUIT. It was about the period of the Cologne-water excitement that my self-conceit was not a little wounded, and my sense of delicacy altogether sho…
GENERAL TRAINING IN A MAN-OF-WAR. To a quiet, contemplative character, averse to uproar, undue exercise of his bodily members, and all kind of useless confusion, nothing can be more distressing than …
AWAY! SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH CUTTERS, AWAY! It was the morning succeeding one of these general quarters that we picked up a life-buoy, descried floating by. It was a circular mass of cork, about…
A MAN-OF-WAR FULL AS A NUT. It was necessary to supply the lost cooper’s place; accordingly, word was passed for all who belonged to that calling to muster at the main-mast, in order that one of them…
THE JACKET ALOFT. Again must I call attention to my white jacket, which, about this time came near being the death of me. I am of a meditative humour, and at sea used often to mount aloft at night, …
HOW THEY SLEEP IN A MAN-OF-WAR. No more of my luckless jacket for a while; let me speak of my hammock, and the tribulations I endured therefrom. Give me plenty of room to swing it in; let me swing i…
