The logbook of the captain's clerk: Adventures in the China seas (The Lakeside Classics)

To the novice on the deck of a man-of-war everything is strange and some things are startling. Having thus far wended hia way through life as a landlubber, the transition to ship, sea, sailors and storms is somewhat bewildering. It takes time to learn the names and uses of the tangled tracery around him. And when at last he can discriminate between the mizzen to gallant In oce and the foretopmast stun soil halliard, he can be credited with a brave beginning. The big guns, portholes, armchests, cutlass racks, carbines, boarding pikes and other belligerent contrivances suggest a martial contrast to the peaceiul atmosphere of his former life on shore. And the tipsy deck, swelling canvas and webs of cordage strike him as quite unlike the solid old home of his boyhood, which staid where it was put and never threatened to spill him out.
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