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Download or read book Fore and Aft written by Robert Brewer Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fore and Aft: A Story of Actual Sea Life Having passed many pleasant hours in narrating reminiscences of fourteen months of ship life, I have prepared this story because my friends thought that what they had enjoyed hearing, others might find interest in reading; and because so few true accounts have been given by persons who have themselves been sailors, and who write from actual experience. With the notable exception of Richard H. Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," there has been hardly a book giving a correct statement of the sailor's life, with its many hardships and perils, and its few pleasures and enjoyments. I send my story out into the world, hoping that it may be found to be - what I have tried to make it - a truthful representation of the average experiences of the American sailor, "fore and aft." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Fore and Aft a Story of Actual Sea Life written by Robert Brewer Dixon and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. A Little after six o'clock the cook called me, to say that a boat was coming directly towards us from the shore. I hurried on my clothes, and, going on deck, made out by the aid of the glass the captain, the consignee, and the stevedore and several of his men. They were eagerly scrutinizing the brig, and without doubt were wondering what misfortune had befallen us during our short absence. In a few moments the boat was alongside; and the captain, followed by the others, scrambled over the rail, shook hands with me, congratulated me on getting the brig back again so soon and safely, and wanted to know, faster than I could tell him, all about the trip, how the gale had struck us, what mishaps had occurred, and to what extent the brig had been damaged. I had never seen the captain quite so happy and goodnatured. He patted me on the shoulder, called me all the pet names imaginable, and made me feel like a hero who had done some very daring and unheardof thing, and was now receiving his reward. The damage to the brig, considering what she had been through, was very slight: the most important was the loss of the stanchions that supported the 267 deck-beams, and the opening of the seams in the deck, forward and along the water-ways, from which the oakum had worked while the vessel was violently straining and wrenching in the heavy seas. It did not take very long to repair these damages. The logs that we had been compelled to cut loose when the brig parted her moorings had drifted ashore about two miles down the beach, and had there been secured. The men were permitted to sleep till nine o'clock, when they were turned out for breakfast; and, except for attending to some few small jobs about the decks, they were allowed the...
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