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Preface
_ "Conceive him now in a man-of-war;
with his letters of mart, well armed,
victualed, and appointed,
and see how he acquits himself."
--FULLER‘S "Good Sea-Captain."
NOTE. In the year 1843 I shipped as "ordinary seaman" on board of a United States frigate then lying in a harbor of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from the service upon the vessel‘s arrival home. My man-of-war experiences and observations have been incorporated in the present volume.
New York, March, 1850.
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WHITE-JACKET. _
Chapter 1. The Jacket
_ CHAPTER I. THE JACKET
It was not a _very_ white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show.
The way I came by it was this.
When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru--her last harbour in the Pacific--I found myself without a _grego_, or sailor‘s surtout; and as, toward the end of a three years‘ cruise,
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