Two Years Before the Mast

, by Dana, Richard Henry

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ISBN: 9781582182865 | 1582182868
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/1/2001

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Departuire -- First Impressions -- Ship's Duties

(3)

First Impressions --- Ship's Duties

(7)

Ship's Duties

(7)

Sundays At Sea -- Trouble on Board -- Land Ho -- A Pampero -- Cape Horn

(9)

Cape Horn -- A Visit

(11)

Loss Of a Man

(6)

Superstitions -- Juan Fernandez -- Putting the Vessel in Order

(9)

Painting -- Daily Life -- Point Conception

(7)

Santa Barbara -- Beach-Combing -- A Southeaster

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A Southeaster -- Passage Up the Coast

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Passage Up the Coast -- Monterey

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Monterey

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Monterey -- A British Sailor -- Santa Barbara

(13)

Hide Droghing -- Discontent -- San Pedro -- Flogging

(14)

Flogging -- Night On Shore -- State of Things On Board -- San Diego

111

(18)

Liberty-Day On Shore

129

(9)

San Diego -- Desertion -- San Pedro Again -- Easter Sunday

138

(9)

Easter Sunday -- Italian Sailors -- San Juan -- San Diego Again -- Life on Shore

147

(16)

Sandwich-Islanders -- Hide-Curing -- Wood-Cutting -- Coyotes -- Rattlesnakes

163

(19)

New Comers -- People at the Hide-Houses -- Leisure -- Pilgrim News from Home -- Pilgrim Occupations on the Beach -- California and its Inhabitants

182

(11)

California and its Inhabitants

193

(7)

Life on the Beach -- The Alert

200

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New Ship and Shipmates - A Race -- My Watchmate, Tom Harris -- San Diego Again

208

(23)

A Descent - A Hurried Departure - A New Shipmate

231

(9)

Rumors of War -- A Spouter -- Sudden Slipping for a Southeaster -- to Windward -- A Dry Gale

240

(21)

San Francisco -- Monterey Revisited

261

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Monterey Revisited -- A Set-to -- A Decayed Gentleman -- A Contrabandista -- A Fandango

271

(14)

A Victim -- California Rangers-Beach-Combers -- News From Home -- Last Looks

285

(17)

Loading for Home -- A Surprise -- Last of an Old Friend -- the Last Hide -- A Hard Case -- An Anchor, for Home! -- The Alert and California -- Homeward Bound

302

(27)

Homeward Bound -- Our Passenger, Professor Nuttall - Home-ward Bound

329

(15)

Bad Prospects -- First Touch of Cape Horn -- Iceburgs -- Temperance Ships -- Lying-Up -- Ice -- Difficulty on Board - Change of Course - Straits of Magellan

344

(27)

Ice Again -- Disappointment -- Cape Horn - Land Ho!

371

(14)

Cracking On -- Progress Homeward -- A Fine Sight - Fitting Ship -- By-Plane

385

(14)

An Escape -- Equator - Tropical Squalls - Tropical Thunder-Storm

399

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A Reef-Topsail Breeze - Scurvy -- A Friend in Need -- Preparing for Port -- Gulf Stream

408

(12)

Soundings -- Sights About Home - Boston Harbor - Leaving the Ship

420

(12)

Twenty Four Years After

432

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Two Years Before the Mast

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