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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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tantly to the jib-guys, we had fresh fish, whenever we desiredit, for a long time. When off the Cape, we one day harpooned a porpoise,and I now for the first time ate of this fish. The porpoiseis a fish of the whale kind, from six to ten feet long, and hav-ing a pointed nose or bill, Giving the head some little resem-1lance to a birds. The meat resembles somewhat coarse beef, butis much darker—almost black. The liver, which is the choicestpart, and is considered quite a delicacy, is hardly to be dis-tinguished, when cooked, from the liver of a hog. Before we fairly doubled the Cape, we experienced the usualgale of wind, without which it seems almost impossible to getinto the Indian Ocean, and although the wind was fair, wewere compelled to shorten sail. Ay, reef her down, growled my chum, just as thoughyou wanted her to lay here like an old hulk. But, George, said one, you would not want to steer herto-night, with whole topsails? Lei him put topgallantsails on her, and Ill steer her
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THE GANGES with one hand. Who wants to wallow about here just likesome old Dutch drogher? 1 want to get to Calcutta. Nevertheless, with all his grumbling, George was the firstman on the topsailyard, and took occasion, while he and Iwere securing the lee-earing, to prophesy that we would be atleast six months on our passage, shortening sail for every cap-ful of wind. In his heart the old fellow was glad of thecomfortable nights rest which our taking in sail secured to allhands, but his growl was as earnest and persistent, as thoughhe had been really an ill-used man. We were but a few days off the Cape, and with a fairwind soon regained a warmer latitude. With the aid of favor-ing breezes we made a quick run to the Sand Heads, wherereceiving a pilot from one of the pilot brigs which have theretheir cruising ground, we were soon in the Hoogly. The Sand Heads are shoals formed by the deposits of theHoogly. They extend to some distance beyond the mouth ofthe river, and their navigation is

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