Identifier: merchantvesselsa1884nord (find matches)
Title: The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 LaPlante, Charles. egr Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931. ill Dodd, Mead & Company. pbl
Subjects: Boys Conduct of life Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Merchant ships Seafaring life Sailing Slavery
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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rd.Its horrid work, this burying dead by the wholesale. Not allthe money in the world would hire me to take another turn at it. As we neared the Brazilian coast, a sharper lookout thancommon was kept by the officers, who took regular turns at themasthead. Two days before we made the land, a sail hove insight. We stood toward it, and soon made it out to be a littleschooner-boat, sent out to warn us of danger, and direct us to apart of the coast that was clear. Taking on board one of theowners, who had come out in this boat, we altered our course alittle, and on the second morning thereafter made the land, andran safely into a little inlet a few miles south of Porto Seguro.Dropping anchor close in shore, we were directly surrounded byboats, and in five hours after coming in had landed six hundredand eighty-five negroes, all that were left out of eight hundredami two, one hundred and seventeen having died on the passage.No sooner was the last slave out of the brig than we were called 4 y
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LANDING THE CARGO. aft, paid off, and the choice given us to have our passage paidto Rio, or to be paid two dollars and a half per day, to take thevessel around there, as soon as the slave gear was taken out of her. For my part, I had had enough of slaving, and wentashore, with one thousand three hundred and seventy dollars,in doubloons, in my belt, determined never to be caught in avessel out of Havana again. Seven bells struck as old Anton finished his yarn, and westarted aft to pump ship, which being done, and eight bellsstruck, we were glad to turn into our warm bunks. CHAPTER VI. A gale off Cape Clear—Nearly ashore—Liverpool— What a sailor sees of it. WE had a tedious passage, and were already forty-eightdays out, when we sighted Cape Clear. It had beenblowing quite heavily for several days, but the wind being onlya little forward of the beam, we had made good progress, evenunder the short canvas we dared to show to it. For a cotton-loaded ship is generally crank, and will

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