Two Years Before the Mast,9781582182865

Two Years Before the Mast

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ISBN13: 9781582182865
ISBN10: 1582182868
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Table of Contents

Departuire -- First Impressions -- Ship's Duties
1(3)
First Impressions --- Ship's Duties
4(7)
Ship's Duties
11(7)
Sundays At Sea -- Trouble on Board -- Land Ho -- A Pampero -- Cape Horn
18(9)
Cape Horn -- A Visit
27(11)
Loss Of a Man
38(6)
Superstitions -- Juan Fernandez -- Putting the Vessel in Order
44(9)
Painting -- Daily Life -- Point Conception
53(7)
Santa Barbara -- Beach-Combing -- A Southeaster
60(9)
A Southeaster -- Passage Up the Coast
69(6)
Passage Up the Coast -- Monterey
75(6)
Monterey
81(3)
Monterey -- A British Sailor -- Santa Barbara
84(13)
Hide Droghing -- Discontent -- San Pedro -- Flogging
97(14)
Flogging -- Night On Shore -- State of Things On Board -- San Diego
111(18)
Liberty-Day On Shore
129(9)
San Diego -- Desertion -- San Pedro Again -- Easter Sunday
138(9)
Easter Sunday -- Italian Sailors -- San Juan -- San Diego Again -- Life on Shore
147(16)
Sandwich-Islanders -- Hide-Curing -- Wood-Cutting -- Coyotes -- Rattlesnakes
163(19)
New Comers -- People at the Hide-Houses -- Leisure -- Pilgrim News from Home -- Pilgrim Occupations on the Beach -- California and its Inhabitants
182(11)
California and its Inhabitants
193(7)
Life on the Beach -- The Alert
200(8)
New Ship and Shipmates - A Race -- My Watchmate, Tom Harris -- San Diego Again
208(23)
A Descent - A Hurried Departure - A New Shipmate
231(9)
Rumors of War -- A Spouter -- Sudden Slipping for a Southeaster -- to Windward -- A Dry Gale
240(21)
San Francisco -- Monterey Revisited
261(10)
Monterey Revisited -- A Set-to -- A Decayed Gentleman -- A Contrabandista -- A Fandango
271(14)
A Victim -- California Rangers-Beach-Combers -- News From Home -- Last Looks
285(17)
Loading for Home -- A Surprise -- Last of an Old Friend -- the Last Hide -- A Hard Case -- An Anchor, for Home! -- The Alert and California -- Homeward Bound
302(27)
Homeward Bound -- Our Passenger, Professor Nuttall - Home-ward Bound
329(15)
Bad Prospects -- First Touch of Cape Horn -- Iceburgs -- Temperance Ships -- Lying-Up -- Ice -- Difficulty on Board - Change of Course - Straits of Magellan
344(27)
Ice Again -- Disappointment -- Cape Horn - Land Ho!
371(14)
Cracking On -- Progress Homeward -- A Fine Sight - Fitting Ship -- By-Plane
385(14)
An Escape -- Equator - Tropical Squalls - Tropical Thunder-Storm
399(9)
A Reef-Topsail Breeze - Scurvy -- A Friend in Need -- Preparing for Port -- Gulf Stream
408(12)
Soundings -- Sights About Home - Boston Harbor - Leaving the Ship
420(12)
Twenty Four Years After 432

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