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Two Years Before the Mast — Richard Henry Dana
Two Years Before the Mast — Richard Henry Dana
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Richard Henry Dana's firsthand account of life as a common sailor aboard a merchant ship rounding Cape Horn to California. A gripping, unsentimental record of maritime life that exposed the brutal conditions sailors faced.
Author: Richard Henry Dana
Genre: Memoir / Maritime
Excerpt
Chapter I
The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim, on her voyage from Boston, round Cape Horn, to the Western coast of North America. As she was to get under way early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o'clock, in full sea-rig, with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years' voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books, with a plenty of hard work, plain food, and open air, a weakness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my studies, and which no medical aid seemed likely to remedy.
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