... star chamber could proceed more sum- marily with a poor devil , than this ... two years more in California would have made me a sailor for the rest of my ... Before them a ' . ' But it would have all availed me nothing , had I been " some ...
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
... star and the Great Bear in the northern horizon , and all hands looked out sharp to the southward for the Magellan Clouds , which , each succeeding night , we expected to make , next time we see the north star , " said one , shall be ...
... starboard quarter , carrying away a part of our star- board quarter railing , and breaking off her larboard bumpkin , and one or two stanchions above the deck . We saw our handsome sailor , Jackson , on the forecastle , with the ...
Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages (LOA #161): Two Years Before the Mast / To Cuba and Back / Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860
... star is the first land you make . These trades were the same that , in the passage out in the Pilgrim , lasted nearly all the way from Juan Fernandez to the line ; blowing steadily on our starboard quarter for three weeks , without our ...
Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834.
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