Two Years Before the Mast
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Two Years Before The Mast is a wonderful, elegantly written adventure classic that is still enjoyable more than one hundred years after its original publication. This is Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s account of his life as a common seaman aboard the brig the Pilgrim which set out from Boston on August 14, 1835 destined for California by way of the treacherous Cape Horn. Dana gives an engrossing, detailed account of the workings of the ship, the day-to-day routines of the deck hands, and the brutal shortcomings of inept, tyrannical officers. This “author’s edition” includes a chapter written by Dana twenty-four years after his initial voyage where he revisits some of the people, places and vessels that he had encountered on his original journey. Note: Digital Scanning, Inc., the publisher of this eBook, is granting users the right to print excerpts of this book as well as the right to lend/give this eBook to other Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader users. Printing: Users can print up to 100 eBook pages every seven days. Students and researchers will find this feature especially useful. To print, click on the menu button in the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader and select the print option. Lending/Giving: We currently have two ways to lend or give a book: you can beam it to a computer if both have infrared ports, or you can send it to a computer on your network. To lend a book to someone else, go to the Library, click a book. Click the Menu button and then click Lend/Give to display the Lend/Give dialog box. Choose a loan period or click Give. To send the book over an infrared connection, click Beam. To send the book to a computer on thenetwork, enter the computer name in the Send To box and click Send. You can either lend the book or give it away. Like a paper book, there is only ever one working copy. Once the lending period expires, you get your rights back and you can re-read the book or lend it again. Of course, if you give it away, it's gone for good (unless the recipient gives it back).
Chapter I.DepartureFirst ImpressionsShip's DutiesChapter II.First ImpressionsShip's DutiesChapter III.Ship's DutiesChapter IV.Sundays At SeaTrouble on BoardLand HoA PamperoCape HornChapter V.Cape HornA VisitChapter VI.Loss Of a ManChapter VII.SuperstitionsJuan FernandezPutting the Vessel In OrderChapter VIII.PaintingDaily LifePoint ConceptionChapter IX.Santa BarbaraBeach-CombingA SoutheasterChapter X.A SoutheasterPassage Up the CoastChapter XI.Passage Up the CoastMontereyChapter XII.MontereyChapter XIII.MontereyA British SailorSanta BarbaraChapter XIV.Hide DroghingDiscontentSan PedroFloggingChapter XV.FloggingNight On ShoreState of Things On BoardSan DiegoChapter XVI.Liberty-Day On ShoreChapter XVII.San DiegoDesertionSan Pedro AgainEaster SundayChapter XVIII.Easter SundayItalian SailorsSan JuanSan Diego AgainLife on ShoreChapter XIX.Sandwich-IslandersHide-CuringWood-CuttingCoyotesRattlesnakesChapter XX.New ComersPeople at the Hide-HousesLeisurePilgrim News from HomePilgrim Occupations on the BeachCalifornia and its InhabitantsChapter XXI.California and its InhabitantsChapter XXII.Life on the BeachThe AlertChapter XXIII.New Ship and ShipmatesA RaceMy Watchmate, Tom HarrisSan Diego AgainChapter XXIV.A DescentA Hurried DepartureA New ShipmateChapter XXV.Rumors of WarA SpouterSudden Slipping for a SoutheasterTo WindwardA Dry GaleChapter XXVI.San FranciscoMonterey RevisitedChapter XVII.Monterey RevisitedA Set-toA Decayed GentlemanA ContrabandistaA FandangoChapter XVIII.A VictimCalifornia Rangers-Beach-CombersNews From HomeLast LooksChapter XXIX.Loading for HomeA SurpriseLast of an Old FriendThe Last HideA Hard CaseAn Anchor, for Home!The Alert and CaliforniaHomeward BoundChapter XXX.Homeward BoundOur Passenger, Professor NuttallHomeward BoundChapter XXXI.Bad ProspectsFirst Touch of Cape HornIceburgsTemperance ShipsLying-UpIceDifficulty on BoardChange of CourseStraits of MagellanChapter XXXII.Ice AgainDisappointmentCape HornLand Ho!Chapter XXXIII.Cracking OnProgress HomewardA Fine SightFitting ShipBy-PlaneChapter XXXIV.An EscapeEquatorTropical SquallsTropical Thunder-StormChapter XXXV.A Reef-Topsail BreezeScurvyA Friend in NeedPreparing for PortGulf StreamChapter XXXVI.SoundingsSights About HomeBoston HarboLeaving the ShipTwenty Four Years After432
