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Tales of the ocean, and essays for the forecastle : containing matters and incidents humorous, pathetic romantic, and sentimental : illustrated with numerous engravings / by Hawser Martingale.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 Sl253 841t 1858
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martingale, Hawser, 1794-1878.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sea stories.
- Whaling.
- Genre:
- Sea stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Woodruff, Alvin (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- vi leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf, 9 unnumbered pages-358 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Tales of the ocean
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : G.W. Cottrell, 1858.
- Contents:
- Character of a sailor
- Impressment of seamen
- Jack Wilson
- Sailors on shore
- Improvidence of sailors
- The pirate off Cape St. Antonio
- A scene in Monte Video
- The haunted ship
- Conduct of seamen at sea
- The drunken captain, Ned Rollin's story
- Licentiousness
- The sailor in a sepulchre
- The duel at sea
- Tobacco
- The fisherman
- A stratagem of war
- Scenes in Havana in 1822
- Crossing the equinoctical line
- The spirit bird
- The Bahama Banks
- Bill Deadeye and the Anaconda
- The unlucky ship, Ned Spanker's story, Parts 1-3
- How to rouse the watch on deck
- Examples of sailors abroad
- Duelling
- An adventure in Marseilles
- Jonathan in search of a wife
- A chapter on musquetoes
- A Yankee taught a lesson in roguery
- The duty of officers
- Dick Trysail's solitary cruise
- Duties of a shipmaster
- John Smith
- Encounter with a pirate
- Cowardice sometimes a protection
- A whale adventure in the Pacific
- Edward and Isabel
- How to make a Russian sans culotte.
- Notes:
- "Printed by George C. Rand & Avery."--T.p. verso.
- "The matter contained in this work was written at intervals during the past few years. Many of the stories and essays were originally published in the Boston Mercantile Journal ... Most of the narratives were founded on fact, and it is believed that they contain nothing which can be reasonably objected to on the score of propriety or virtue."--Preface.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy lacks comma after "pathetic" in the title.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Alvin Woodruff, Windsor, Vt.
- OCLC:
- 767568421
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