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Jack's Edition of Life at Sea, Or, the Jervian System in 183-, a Series of Letters by an Old Irish Captain of the Head to His Nephew. to Which
Jack's Edition of Life at Sea Or the Jervian System in 183 a Series of Letters by an Old Irish Captain of the Head to His Nephew to Which Author:Jack Title: Jack's Edition of Life at Sea, Or, the Jervian System in 183-, a Series of Letters by an Old Irish Captain of the Head to His Nephew. to Which Are Added a Set of Orders Volume: v. 10 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustration... more »s and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER XI. At Sea. My Dear Charles, On Sunday forenoon, though I think there being no particular hurry, we might for decency's sake have waited till Monday, we received the ' Pleni- po' and the rest of the cabin passengers on board with all the honours ; a description of which job, or operation I shall spare you, as it differed but little in detail from the ceremony of ' reviewing the guards,' excepting a slight diminution in the captain's majesty, caused by there being one present, to whom he considered it his interest to pay abject respect, where deference was due. 'Twas a dead calm, and instead of performing the customary church service, we had hove in to a short stay, and made all plain sail. Our barge's shoving off from the shore was the signal for immediate bustle fore and aft. " Pipe the hands up, man the caps-ta-an,'' shouted Captain Parasite. " Send the forecastlemen, foretopmen, and boys to the jib and flying jib halliards," said Captain B to him at the same time. Notwithstanding sundry repetitions of the latter order however, there was great difficulty experienced in procuring the attendance of several absentees, who were engaged in ' slinging the hatchet,' as skulking is termed in the nautical vernacular. This induced Captain Parasite reproachfully to say to the mate on the quarter deck -- " Don't you hear me, sar, order the halliards to be manned? Get your watch bill and muster them there at once...« less