Identifier: boytarorvoyagein00reid (find matches)
Title: The boy tar; or, A voyage in the dark
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883 Keene, Charles, 1823-1891
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Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Avater than ever; but rather likedit all the more on account of the very excitement whichits dangers produced. Very soon after I began to experience a longing tosee foreign lands, and to travel over the great oceanitself. I never cast my eyes out upon the bay, thatthis yearning did not come over me; and when I sawships with their white sails, far off upon the horizon, Iused to think how happy they must be who were onboard of them; and I would gladly have exchangedplaces with the hardest working sailor among theircrews. Perhaps I might not have felt these longings sointensely, had I been happy at home — that is, had Ibeen living with a kind father and gentle mother; butmy morose old uncle took little interest in me ; andthere being, therefore, no ties of filial affection to attachme to home, my longings had full play. I was com-pelled to do a good deal of work on the farm, and thiswas a sort of life for which I had no natural liking. The drudgery only increased my desire to go abroad
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FOR PERU to-morrow! 81 — to behold the wonderful scenes of which I had readin books, and of which I had received still more glow-ing accounts from sailors, who had once been fishermenin our village, and who occasionally returned to visittheir native place. These used to tell us of lions, andtigers, and elephants, and crocodiles, and monkeys asbig as men, and snakes as long as ships cables — untiltheir exciting stories of the adventures they had ex-perienced among such creatures, filled me with an en-thusiastic desire to see with my own eyes these rareanimals, and to take part in the chasing and capturingof them as the sailors themselves had done. In short,I became very tired of the dull monotonous life whichI was leading at home, and which I then supposed waspeculiar to our own country — for, according to oursailor-visitors, in every other part of the world therewas full store of stirring adventures, and wild animals,and strange scenes. One young fellow, I remember, who had only

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