BY
W. HASTINGS MACAULAY.
| "Cœlum, non animum, mutant, Qui trans mare currunt." |
NEW-YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.
M.DCCC.LII.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
G. P. PUTNAM & COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.
JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER,
49 Ann-Street.
Dedication
TO
MRS. JANE G. SPROSTON, BALTIMORE.
ESTEEMED AND RESPECTED MADAM:
I have presumed to address this work to you, more to prove thetruth of its motto, than from any hope that it may be intrinsicallyworthy of your acceptance.
Connected with a noble profession by ties at once sad and dear,I have considered that a narration of events seen in itsservice—however unworthily set down, might not be uninteresting to you;and feeling assured that your prayers and kind wishes have followedus through "changing skies," as we have sped across "distantseas,"—upon our safe return, I am truly happy in being able toimitate the custom of mariners of more sunny climes, and to placethis offering of affection upon the altar of Gratitude.
THE AUTHOR.
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| CHAPTER I. | |
| Set Sail—Sea-sickness—Get agood offing—Sailho!—Isletsof St. Paul—Shipwreck there—Sufferings—Crossing theLine—Fernando Noronha—Fire—Remarkablepeak—Arrivalat Rio—Disappointment—Beauties of the harbor—Ashore atlast—Village of San Domingo—Flying trip to city—Yellowfever—All hands up anchor—Sugarloaf Mountain—Off forthe Cape | 9 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Telling Tales out of School—Double the Cape—The FlyingDutchman—Albatross and Cape pigeons—Catching thealbatross—The man who ate the albatross—Superstitionof sailors—Man overboard—Lyingto—Accident—Death—Thesailor's grave | 20 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Island of St. Paul—Steering for Java Head—Landho!—Christmas Island—Straits of Sunda—ABeautiful Scene—Sentimental Simile—Come toanchor—Anger Point—Villageof Anger—On shore in Java—Perfume of the East—Banyantree—The governor and Dutch hotel keeper—Welcome atan inn—Attack on Anger Fort—Dutch officers' prowess,and French!—TheJavanese—Chinaman—Mosque—Mahomet—Bazaar—Watering place | 26 |
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