Chapter

 1 1    |         my eye lighted upon this vessel. There was something about
 2 1    |       that a voyage in a sailing vessel had certain charms beyond
 3 II   |       man who, as commander of a vessel, should be to those around
 4 II   |         sufficient for working a vessel of 900 tons burden. Up to
 5 II   |          in the aft-board of the vessel.~I have seen the ship’s
 6 III  |           and my interest in the vessel aforesaid, with all its
 7 III  |         space is wasted, and the vessel is thus made capable of
 8 IV   |          than a match for many a vessel of the same dimensions.
 9 IV   |      rolling and pitching of the vessel no longer incommode any
10 IV   |         on board a mere merchant vessel instead of enjoying the
11 V    |       should have thought that a vessel sailing from Charleston
12 VI   |           Kazallon, to bring the vessel into any real danger, I
13 VI   |    vegetation, through which the vessel makes her way as a plough.
14 VII  |        fathom the yards; but the vessel continuing to lie to starboard
15 IX   |         Have you ever heard of a vessel surviving such circumstances?”
16 IX   |       feet, and who, to save his vessel and the remainder of his
17 X    |   compromising the safety of the vessel, he contrives by tacking
18 X    |        the gentle rolling of the vessel. The increasing heat of
19 X    |          of an ordinary merchant vessel should be distinguished
20 XII  |         feel at seeing this fine vessel doomed to be devoured by
21 XII  |    forward, I am captain of this vessel.”~Thus quietly and simply
22 XIII |     followed the rollings of the vessel, and formed fantastic patterns
23 XV   |          that dashed against the vessel he maintained his position
24 XVI  |         being washed against the vessel, and in the dusky morning
25 XVI  |         advisable to abandon the vessel, and to take refuge on the
26 XVII |       passengers and crew if the vessel should be reduced to a total
27 XVII |        duties just as though the vessel were pursuing her ordinary
28 XIX  |          which the heavily-laden vessel had been thrown ashore did
29 XX   |         and the very ribs of the vessel were considerably damaged;
30 XX   |          and construct a smaller vessel that might have carried
31 XX   |   sufficiently wide to allow the vessel to turn quite round at its
32 XX   |         scarcely safe to allow a vessel of doubtful stability at
33 XXI  |        grievously imperilled the vessel was now to serve her in
34 XXIII|     interior and exterior of the vessel, might, if only for a few
35 XXV  |      that had attached it to the vessel had snapped as she became
36 XXVI |      netting that runs along the vessel’s sides. Communication between
37 XXIX |     ropes that secured it to the vessel to prevent it from being
38 XXIX |   whirlpool around the submerged vessel, and numbers of enormous
39 XXIX |         be the last to leave the vessel he had loved so well, and
40 XXIX |         of what had been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be
41 XXX  |         either land or a passing vessel. One cask of biscuit, another
42 XXX  |        partial submersion of the vessel.~Such then is our situation;
43 XXXI |       may fall in with a passing vessel, but as the part of the
44 XXXII|   carried down with a foundering vessel. In the day-time we can
45 XLIII|      discussing the build of the vessel, and made all sorts of conjectures
46 XLV  |          the crew of any passing vessel had caught sight of us as
47 L    |     being picked up by a passing vessel, ere another week has elapsed
48 LVII | continuing our homeward route. A vessel took us to Cayenne, where