White Jacket
READING AGE 16+
or, The World on a Man-of-War
(1850)
"Conceive him now in a man-of-war;
with his letters of mart, well armed,
victualed, and appointed,
and see how he acquits himself."
--FULLER'S "Good Sea-Captain."
NOTE. In the year 1843 I shipped as "ordinary seaman"
on board of a United States frigate then lying in a
harbor of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this
frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from
the service upon the vessel's arrival home. My man-of-war
experiences and observations have been incorporated in
the present volume.--New York, March, 1850.
Unfold
CABLE AND ANCHOR ALL CLEAR.
And now that the white jacket has sunk to the bottom of the sea,
and the blessed Capes of Virginia are believed to be broad on our
bow--though still out of sight--our five hundred souls are fondly
dreaming of home, and the iron throats of the guns round the
galley re-echo with their songs……
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