Two Years Before the Mast

by Dana, Richard Henry

• ISBN13: 9781582182865
• ISBN10: 1582182868
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Departuire -- First Impressions -- Ship's Duties	1	(3)
First Impressions --- Ship's Duties	4	(7)
Ship's Duties	11	(7)
Sundays At Sea -- Trouble on Board -- Land Ho -- A Pampero -- Cape Horn	18	(9)
Cape Horn -- A Visit	27	(11)
Loss Of a Man	38	(6)
Superstitions -- Juan Fernandez -- Putting the Vessel in Order	44	(9)
Painting -- Daily Life -- Point Conception	53	(7)
Santa Barbara -- Beach-Combing -- A Southeaster	60	(9)
A Southeaster -- Passage Up the Coast	69	(6)
Passage Up the Coast -- Monterey	75	(6)
Monterey	81	(3)
Monterey -- A British Sailor -- Santa Barbara	84	(13)
Hide Droghing -- Discontent -- San Pedro -- Flogging	97	(14)
Flogging -- Night On Shore -- State of Things On Board -- San Diego	111	(18)
Liberty-Day On Shore	129	(9)
San Diego -- Desertion -- San Pedro Again -- Easter Sunday	138	(9)
Easter Sunday -- Italian Sailors -- San Juan -- San Diego Again -- Life on Shore	147	(16)
Sandwich-Islanders -- Hide-Curing -- Wood-Cutting -- Coyotes -- Rattlesnakes	163	(19)
New Comers -- People at the Hide-Houses -- Leisure -- Pilgrim News from Home -- Pilgrim Occupations on the Beach -- California and its Inhabitants	182	(11)
California and its Inhabitants	193	(7)
Life on the Beach -- The Alert	200	(8)
New Ship and Shipmates - A Race -- My Watchmate, Tom Harris -- San Diego Again	208	(23)
A Descent - A Hurried Departure - A New Shipmate	231	(9)
Rumors of War -- A Spouter -- Sudden Slipping for a Southeaster -- to Windward -- A Dry Gale	240	(21)
San Francisco -- Monterey Revisited	261	(10)
Monterey Revisited -- A Set-to -- A Decayed Gentleman -- A Contrabandista -- A Fandango	271	(14)
A Victim -- California Rangers-Beach-Combers -- News From Home -- Last Looks	285	(17)
Loading for Home -- A Surprise -- Last of an Old Friend -- the Last Hide -- A Hard Case -- An Anchor, for Home! -- The Alert and California -- Homeward Bound	302	(27)
Homeward Bound -- Our Passenger, Professor Nuttall - Home-ward Bound	329	(15)
Bad Prospects -- First Touch of Cape Horn -- Iceburgs -- Temperance Ships -- Lying-Up -- Ice -- Difficulty on Board - Change of Course - Straits of Magellan	344	(27)
Ice Again -- Disappointment -- Cape Horn - Land Ho!	371	(14)
Cracking On -- Progress Homeward -- A Fine Sight - Fitting Ship -- By-Plane	385	(14)
An Escape -- Equator - Tropical Squalls - Tropical Thunder-Storm	399	(9)
A Reef-Topsail Breeze - Scurvy -- A Friend in Need -- Preparing for Port -- Gulf Stream	408	(12)
Soundings -- Sights About Home - Boston Harbor - Leaving the Ship	420	(12)
Twenty Four Years After	432