SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW,
AND 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD; AND

BY THE BOOKSELLERS.

1853
TE

Marks

Nov. 1913

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Some account of the old sea Captain, his cottage, and curi-

osities-The summer arbour, with the union-jack-School-

boys-Heaving up the sheet anchor-Baling out water

from the hold-Taking in a reef of the maintop-sail-Shot

in the locker-Storm at sea-The ocean-The voyage of

life-Going by the board-Bearing a hand-A shipwreck

CHAPTER II.

Figure-head-Wake of a ship-Commodore-Mother Carey's

chickens-Conger eels-Cornish fishermen-Harbour-

master-Catching a shark-The cockatoo-The chame-

leon-The sword-fish-The man-of-war-the keel-the

head-the stern-the decks-the masts-the yards-the

sails the rigging-Lines on the life-boat.....

CHAPTER III.

The Captain tells them about whales, and about the food they

eat-He describes the catching of a whale, and the diffe-

rent kinds of whale-fishery-Field-fishing, Pack-fishing,

and Bay-ice fishing-He relates the account of the loss of

the Essex, a whale ship, that was struck and wrecked by

a whale in the South Seas

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CHAPTER IV.

Noah's ark-The cutter-The gun-boat-The bomb-ketch-

The privateer-The frigate-The man-of-war--The long

boat-The launch-The barge-The pinnace-The cutter

-The yawl-The gig-The jolly boat-The galley-The

merchant ship-The East Indiaman-The brig-The

schooner-The sloop-The slave ship

CHAPTER V.

Up all hammocks-A bo's'un-The ship-captain's address-

Grog-The old bo's'uns speech at the temperance meet-

ing-His drunken son-His conduct to his father-Intem-

perance like Goliath-The resolution-Its great success

-The only cure for hard drinkers..

CHAPTER VI.

The wreck of the Royal George-The explosion-The water

thrown up fifty or sixty feet high-The log-The water-

spout-The narrow escape-The explanation-The foun-

dering of the Royal George-The parliament heel-The

sheathing of a ship-Three hundred women aboard-The

false pride of the second lieutenant-More than a thou-

sand persons drowned-Cowper's lines on the Royal

George

CHAPTER VII.

Heaving the lead-To heave a-head-To heave astern-To

heave at the capstan-To heave a flag aboard-The ship

Bounty Captain Bligh sails from Spithead Cape Horn-

Cape of Good Hope-Otaheite-Bread-fruit plants-Cap-

tain Bligh seized in his cabin-The mutineers, headed by

Christian, force him and eighteen others into a boat-

They are turned adrift on the wide ocean-The mutineer

sail to Toobonai, and then to Otaheite-Thev take away

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