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A Green Hand's First Cruise

A Green Hand's First Cruise


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: does not know what he is unused to. With all your knowledge, I doubt whether you can tell me the difference between a flat and a sharp in music.' The answer was lost to the surrounding listeners, by another casting an end of spun yarn into the Fifer's coffee. He started back with expanded eyes, stretching his fists some six inches beyond his coat sleeves, with evident signs of fight, saying, 'Show me the nasty fellow, who has thrown his chaw- tobacco in my cup, and I'll teach him good manners, or make him eat it.' His determined warlike demonstrations advanced him at once in the opinion of the crew, and when he saw his mistake of supposing the tarred rope an inch of pig-tail, he joined in with the hearty good laugh that followed, which ended the threatened strife. CHAP. III. VESSEL, CREW AND ARMAMENT. The vessel on board of which I had chosen to risk myself with others at this new calling, was hermaphrodite rigged, that is, her foremast was rigged as a brig, while her mainmast was rigged as a schooner; an advantage when on a wind, by bringing in use the enormous mainsail of the latter, and when before the wind, by squaring the yards of the former. She was a vessel of about three hundred and thirty tons, possessing great strength, lying low in the water, having a flush deck fore and aft, and a Jipper of the first class, as she had proved herself by the many escapes she had made from the enemy, during her long and various cruisings; above all, she had the reputation of being lucky, which among seamen is no small advantage in the craft they sail in, and not to be slighted in any. Her late encounter with the boats of a British frigate, gave her an eclat far above any other privateer of the day; and on her arrival so recently after the engagement, she was hailed w...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781429020688
  • Publisher: Applewood Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Applewood Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 608
  • Series Title: Military History (Applewood)
  • Sub Title: Together with a Residence of Give Months in Dartmoor
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1429020687
  • Publisher Date: 03 Sep 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 34 mm
  • Weight: 929 gr


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