Two Years Before the Mast : And Twenty-Four Years After

by Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781589761025
• ISBN10: 1589761022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Narrative Pr

Summary

A personal narrative of the seaman's life in the age of sail: 1815-1882.

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(4)
Departure	5	(3)
First Impressions	8	(6)
Ship's Duties	14	(6)
A Rogue	20	(8)
Cape Horn	28	(9)
Loss of a man	37	(6)
Juan Fernandez	43	(8)
``Tarring Down''	51	(6)
California	57	(8)
A South-Easter	65	(5)
Passage Up The Coast	70	(6)
Life at Monterey	76	(4)
Trading	80	(11)
Santa Barbara	91	(12)
A Flogging	103	(14)
Liberty-Day on Shore	117	(8)
San Diego	125	(8)
Easter Sunday	133	(14)
The Sandwich Islanders	147	(16)
Leisure -- News From Home	163	(9)
California And Its Inhabitants	172	(6)
Life On Shore	178	(7)
New Ship and Shipmates	185	(19)
San Diego Again	204	(8)
Rumors Of War	212	(17)
San Francisco -- Monterey	229	(9)
The Sunday Wash-up	238	(12)
An Old Friend	250	(14)
Loading for Home	264	(23)
Beginning the Long Return Voyage	287	(12)
Bad Prospects	299	(23)
Ice Again	322	(12)
Cracking On	334	(11)
Narrow Escapes	345	(8)
A Double Reef	353	(10)
Soundings	363	(10)
Concluding Chapter	373	(18)
Twenty-Four Years After	391