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A MAN-OF-WAR LIBRARY. Nowhere does time pass more heavily than with most men-of-war’s-men on board their craft in harbour. One of my principal antidotes against ennui in Rio, was reading. There was…
KILLING TIME IN A MAN-OF-WAR IN HARBOUR. Reading was by no means the only method adopted by my shipmates in whiling away the long, tedious hours in harbour. In truth, many of them could not have read…
SMUGGLING IN A MAN-OF-WAR. It is in a good degree owing to the idleness just described, that, while lying in harbour, the man-of-war’s-man is exposed to the most temptations and gets into his saddest…
A KNAVE IN OFFICE IN A MAN-OF-WAR. The last smuggling story now about to be related also occurred while we lay in Rio. It is the more particularly presented, since it furnishes the most curious evide…
PUBLISHING POETRY IN A MAN-OF-WAR. A day or two after our arrival in Rio, a rather amusing incident occurred to a particular acquaintance of mine, young Lemsford, the gun-deck bard. The great guns o…
THE COMMODORE ON THE POOP, AND ONE OF “THE PEOPLE” UNDER THE HANDS OF THE SURGEON. A day or two after the publication of Lemsford’s “Songs of the Sirens,” a sad accident befell a mess-mate of mine, o…
AN AUCTION IN A MAN-OF-WAR. Some allusion has been made to the weariness experienced by the man-of-war’s-men while lying at anchor; but there are scenes now and then that serve to relieve it. Chief a…
PURSER, PURSER’S STEWARD, AND POSTMASTER IN A MAN-OF-WAR. As the Purser’s steward so conspicuously figured at the unsuccessful auction of my jacket, it reminds me of how important a personage that of…
NEVERSINK. While lying in the harbour of Callao, in Peru, certain rumours had come to us touching a war with England, growing out of the long-vexed Northeastern Boundary Question. In Rio these rumour…
THE BAY OF ALL BEAUTIES. I have said that I must pass over Rio without a description; but just now such a flood of scented reminiscences steals over me, that I must needs yield and recant, as I inhal…
