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Excerpt from Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life
Light he the ashes of the dead, And hallowed be the turf that pillows the head of a seaman.
September 21st, the brig left Boston for Newfoundland, and thus reader commences my seafaring career. My being allowed to sit at the same table with the master, and the many indul gences he gave me, while it prevented me from feeling so awkward as I should have done had I been placed with the crew, still it in no wise tended to my comfort; for the other lads jealous of the preference shewn me, exerted all their little powers to make me uncomfortable; besides the very great injury it did me in after years, for never having been a regular apprentice, and having neglected to obtain that practical expe ricuce necessary, I was unfit to take command of a vessel when placed in charge of one.
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