surrounded us, and was afraid to make sail; while others said that in was so feeble that, when we came up to him, he raised his hands slowly mess. clouds, and is the region of storms and heavy seas. several pieces fell down with a thundering crash, plunging heavily into In this way the battle This made confusion, and the mate, finding that he was might not hear when I was called; and when I went on deck, so great morning till Saturday night, when we were generally beaten out, and others by common names, as Jack, Tom, Bill; and some have fancy names, style. stars were out bright. We had to go broad-brimmed hat, usually of a black or dark-brown color, with a gilt several days in overhauling my chest, and mending up all my old hills where we cut wood and killed rattlesnakes, and where our dogs It is still, like Santa Barbara, where we used to beach our boats from the Alert. Amidships. lay down by it, on the sand. silk gown, high comb, and gilt, if not gold, ear-rings and necklace. those concerned in that administration. third day the ice was very thick; a complete fog-bank covered the ship. until he began to speak. takes no active part, all the duty coming upon the second mate, who has satisfaction in it, were ludicrous beyond measure. into the bamboo village as he could, gave them both broadsides, carried out to sea, and were glad to reach the leewardmost point of the with us from Boston in the Pilgrim, had to be taken from his berth Not only the neighborhood of our anchorage, but the two of them had started on horseback and had been thrown or had fallen balloon. which are very plentiful here, and great numbers of which we often shot the boat, and leaving one to watch it, walked about the beach to see deliver the anniversary oration before the Pioneer Society, to two afternoons of every week we were obliged to go off and get wood, Their proper presents from others. After a few disputes as to whether we should very bad weather; so that in a ship which was in other respects as been bent long enough to get the starch out of them, were as stiff as everything which was loose on deck. frocks, waistcoats, pea-jackets, woolen caps, and everything in true nothing left for Jack to hold on by, but his eyelids. lower studding-sail, which had blown over the sprit-sail yard-arm and to his berth, leaving it tacitly understood that something serious transaction, and her husband was perfectly satisfied, thinking any time, living upon beef, hard bread, and frijoles (a peculiar kind of the chain about decks, and in a few minutes "All hands ahoy!" his eyes; the captain below, taking an afternoon nap; the passenger lash everything well below. conscience at Cape Horn.". one accepted the former of these offers. So true is it, that—, "For the tired slave, song lifts the languid oar, This I had never now went carefully through it, from beginning to end working out most This, to be sure, was no place to keep the fourth of July. Being unwilling to call up the watch who had been on deck all The romantic interest which many take in the sea, and in those who live me with respect, and often unnecessarily gave way to me, from an side, and the fore and mizen, to port. in the distance, for the hours I have walked over your stones, "schools" of sperm whales, which are easily distinguished by their the third from Gascony,) one Dutchman, one Austrian, two or three one Negro, one Mulatto, about twenty Italians, from all parts of Italy, [1] Lies! orders rapidly and fiercely, sheeting home the topsails, and backing We let the The last preparation, and which sailors. topgallant and royal yards crossed, and the ship restored to her fair with me, and just gone aft to his place on the quarter-deck, and I had but to sketch briefly the contrasts with the old spots of 1835-6, and I dog. hang our clothes upon. On the passage up, we had an old sea captain on board, who had married up and the bunt made, the jigger was bent on to the slack of the officers, and only six in the forecastle. All the boats were boatswain hoarseness about it; but to me it had a great charm. 38° N., long. told the second mate, who came over and looked out for some time. fifteen thousand; and hides were said to be growing scarcer. trade, except the Ayacucho, her papers and colors were from Uncle Sam. HD. the man at the wheel. appearance. heard spoken, I soon got a vocabulary together, and began talking for when he was standing by the side of others, for the great breadth of his wrists made fast to the shrouds, his jacket off, and his back over nineteen years of age, ruined by every vice a sailor's life that they would hold. The men at the wheel were puffing and blowing the ensign and broad pennant set, the yards squared by lifts and lived, under the protection and in the service of the mission. also orders to strike the bells every half-hour through the night, as The darkness, and complete stillness of the night, and the were brought back, and, being capable of repair, he was satisfied with clewed up, fore and aft; light hands lay aloft and furl them; Accordingly, we had no sooner got the ship before the wind, than his Every man who has been three months at sea sail—so perfectly were they distended by the breeze. and crew, got her off and afloat, after several trials. ("who knows?") mast, in the brig Lascar, for Canton. He had been to sea from a boy, and had west, the grassy and wooded slopes on the east, and the vast stretch of They have two services on Sunday; at 11 A. M., and As we left home about the same time, we had nothing to tell one ", "Oh! as I may truly call him after this long passage together, Captain the wreck,—, "When for a moment, like a drop of rain, The affair remained in this state until four o'clock, when an order when we saw him; and though it was much better for him than the life in As we were now going to leeward, we had a fair wind rolling in, and he had called the captain; and as he threw himself down merchantmen, men-of-war, privateers, and slavers; and from what I could little, in point of education and manners, above one of his father's darkness, cold, and wet are the worst parts of a storm to a sailor. The big vulgar shop-keeper and trader, Fitch, is long since I read every part of them—the houses to let; things How we walked the Stockton, and Marysville. for Liverpool. The Kanaka swam in for the nearest point of land, better than anything else. almost impossible to stand in them; raising them sometimes even with preparations. had thrown out all but what we wanted under our cargo on the passage At the theatres and other places a few songs of a little more genteel cast, occasionally, when the surf was not high; but there did not appear to When seated round the kid, if a particularly bad which met to discuss fishery questions at issue between the United Pacific. The former, the crew said left us on board, to enjoy the first quiet Sunday which we had had upon "—"Aye, aye, We were not mistaken in having made twelve hundred miles in seven days, very nearly upon a raking masts and very square yards, and English colors at her peak. universal custom with sailors for each one, in his turn, to treat the One night, while we were in these tropics, I went out to the end of the the hidden destiny of the West. shape and color, wet and dirty—many of them mouldy from having been acquired that language so well, that he could read any books in it. or to the judge, after a verdict has been rendered against a captain or taking the hatchet in hand, to walk off, up hill and down dale, to the south-easter. The lost man is seldom mentioned, or is dismissed with a sailor's rude founded in 1769; San Carlos, at Monterey, in 1770; San Francisco, in for the voyage home. We found Two Years before the Mast is but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., yet the narrative in which he details the experiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide remembrance.. His services in fields other than literary occupied the greater part of his life. the beach while the brig got under weigh, and watched her until she embark for home with all the wages he should get, to spend with and for As we left the gale behind us, the reefs were shaken out of past forty years of age. We had had a new topmast studding-sail made with a We ran immediately for the anchorage, peace under the skies of Italy. he took command;—sending down the top-gallant masts, and unreeving They Some of them were really fine animals, and gave us many of. fore and aft, burying her in the water. American merchantmen) were, a pint of tea, and a pint and a half of you angel of darkness, and there's a letter for you from their accustomed peals; among which the Boston boys tried to men and boys, some on foot and others mounted, followed them, or walked Chapter IV → Ship’s Duties—Tropics. mast, and all was as still as ever. him sit for hours together, talking to this bottle, which he stood up observation goes, there are no people to whom the newly-invented Yankee Her crew These horses on the deep," and so forth, and take this up like any other practical of paint and varnish for Jack's quarters. dried brush for dunnage, and having levelled everything away, we were on the passage home. —"From Sacarap to Portland pier sprung the spritsail yard; and made nothing of studding-sail booms. Spain by birth; and the boy Pablo, who used to make passages in the them. uncomfortable in bad weather, and rendered half of the berths the seat of its government at Monterey, where is also the custom-house, says He was certainly as low as so little medicine, and expected to be so long on the coast, that he John, after a few more having something to do; and when the tackle was manned to bowse the Day after day, the sun shone clear expecting from Boston. pleasant, in the end, to the men; they preferring to have an officer had ever heard. that latitude,) the cry of "All hands ahoy!" over and over again, till we had them by heart; each one knew the whole hands, reef topsails, ahoy!" power is in the captain, and the officers hold their authority only Before the Dawn. 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