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HOW THEY BURY A MAN-OF-WAR’S-MAN AT SEA. Quarters over in the morning, the boatswain and his four mates stood round the main hatchway, and after giving the usual whistle, made the customary announcem…
WHAT REMAINS OF A MAN-OF-WAR’S-MAN AFTER HIS BURIAL AT SEA. Upon examining Shenly’s bag, a will was found, scratched in pencil, upon a blank leaf in the middle of his Bible; or, to use the phrase of …
A MAN-OF-WAR COLLEGE. In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, curses mix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnis…
MAN-OF-WAR BARBERS. The allusion to one of the ship’s barbers in a previous chapter, together with the recollection of how conspicuous a part they enacted in a tragical drama soon to be related, lead…
THE GREAT MASSACRE OF THE BEARDS. The preceding chapter fitly paves the way for the present, wherein it sadly befalls White-Jacket to chronicle a calamitous event, which filled the Neversink with lon…
THE REBELS BROUGHT TO THE MAST. Though many heads of hair were shorn, and many fine beards reaped that day, yet several still held out, and vowed to defend their sacred hair to the last gasp of their…
OLD USHANT AT THE GANGWAY. The rebel beards, headed by old Ushant’s, streaming like a Commodore’s bougee , now stood in silence at the mast. “You knew the order!” said the Captain, eyeing them sever…
FLOGGING THROUGH THE FLEET. The flogging of an old man like Ushant, most landsmen will probably regard with abhorrence. But though, from peculiar circumstances, his case occasioned a good deal of ind…
THE SOCIAL STATE IN A MAN-OF-WAR. Bur the floggings at the gangway and the floggings through the fleet, the stealings, highway robberies, swearings, gamblings, blasphemings, thimble-riggings, smuggli…
THE MANNING OF NAVIES. “The gallows and the sea refuse nothing,” is a very old sea saying; and, among all the wondrous prints of Hogarth, there is none remaining more true at the present day than tha…
