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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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ON THE HIGH SEAS. OUR CREW. The only other American sailor on hoard was a poor, sick fellow, who had broken down his constitution under the burning suns of India, and was now making- his way home to die. He hailed from the State of New York, but had not been home for many years. No one would have taken him for an American, so thoroughly had his long service in British veschanged him. For three years previous to his shipping in the Ariadne(the name ot the vessel in which we now were) he had been in the East India Companys service, forming, the greater part of that time, one of the crew of a small steamer which pliedon the Indus, bearing despatches to and from the then scene of war in Sinde and the Punjaub. He had finally fallen sick.and was sent to Bombay, where he partly recovered, was dis-charged from the hospital and service, and shipped in the Ariadne, determined to go home. His disease, the dysentery, still hung upon him, and he was scarcely able to walk about when 1 came on board. Althou

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