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Title: The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 LaPlante, Charles. egr Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931. ill Dodd, Mead & Company. pbl
Subjects: Boys Conduct of life Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Merchant ships Seafaring life Sailing Slavery
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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after cocoa-nut oil, whena shipmate put it into my head to take another trip in anopium-trader. There was just then lying in the river one ofthe prettiest little craft that was ever in that business, and you know they are all clippers. She was called the A , and had only come out from Boston about six months before.With her low black hull, tall rakish masts, and square yards,she was a regular beauty, just such a vessel as it does an oldtars heart good to set eves on—though for the matter of com-fort, keep me out of them, for what with their scrubbing andscouring in port, and their carrying on sail at sea, to make agood passage, and half drowning the crew, theres very littlepeace on board of them. After all, said George, abatinga little of his usual snarl, it takes vou Yankees to turn outthe clippers. Why, I never saw any Scotch clipper that couldbegin to look up to thai craft. We went aboard to lake a look at the beautv, andbefore we left her had shipped for the voyage. The captain
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A CITY OF INDIA. OPIUM SMUGGLING. i.y, was a lank West Indian, a nervous creature, who looked asthough he never was quiet a moment, even in his sleep and we afterward found he didnt belie his looks. After taking a cruise around Calcutta for a couple of dwe went on board, bag- and hammock (for no chests w<allowed in the forecastle). Our pay was to be eight v rupiper month, with half a months advance. The vessel was wellarmed, having two guns on a side, beside a long Tom amid-ships. Boarding pikes were arranged in great plenty on therack around the mainmast, and the large arm-chest on thequarter-deck was well supplied with pistols and cutlasses. Wewere fully prepared for a brush with the rascally Chinese, anddetermined not to be put out of our course by one or twoMandarin boats. We sailed up the river some miles, to take in our chestsof opium, and having them safely stowed under hatches, pro-ceeded to sea. With a steady wind we were soon outside ofthe Sand-Heads, the pilot left us, a

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