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THE JACKET. It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. The way I came by it was this. When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru—her la…
HOMEWARD BOUND. “All hands up anchor! Man the capstan!” “High die! my lads, we’re homeward bound!” Homeward bound!—harmonious sound! Were you ever homeward bound?—No?—Quick! take the wings of the …
A GLANCE AT THE PRINCIPAL DIVISIONS, INTO WHICH A MAN-OF-WAR’S CREW IS DIVIDED. Having just designated the place where White-Jacket belonged, it must needs be related how White-Jacket came to belong…
JACK CHASE. The first night out of port was a clear, moonlight one; the frigate gliding though the water, with all her batteries. It was my Quarter Watch in the top; and there I reclined on the bes…
JACK CHASE ON A SPANISH QUARTER-DECK. Here, I must frankly tell a story about Jack, which as touching his honour and integrity, I am sure, will not work against him, in any charitable man’s estimati…
THE QUARTER-DECK OFFICERS, WARRANT OFFICERS, AND BERTH-DECK UNDERLINGS OF A MAN-OF-WAR; WHERE THEY LIVE IN THE SHIP; HOW THEY LIVE; THEIR SOCIAL STANDING ON SHIP-BOARD; AND WHAT SORT OF GENTLEMEN THE…
BREAKFAST, DINNER, AND SUPPER. Not only is the dinner-table a criterion of rank on board a man-of-war, but also the dinner hour. He who dines latest is the greatest man; and he who dines earliest is…
SELVAGEE CONTRASTED WITH MAD-JACK. Having glanced at the grand divisions of a man-of-war, let us now descend to specialities: and, particularly, to two of the junior lieutenants; lords and noblemen;…
OF THE POCKETS THAT WERE IN THE JACKET. I MUST make some further mention of that white jacket of mine. And here be it known—by way of introduction to what is to follow—that to a common sailor, the l…
FROM POCKETS TO PICKPOCKETS. As the latter part of the preceding chapter may seem strange to those landsmen, who have been habituated to indulge in high-raised, romantic notions of the man-of-war’s m…
