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Midshipman's Diary MIDSHIPMAFS FEW NOTES EXTRACTED FROM THE COCKPIT JOURNAL OF A MAN-OP-WAR ; AND DBDIOATBD TO SIR JAMES MATHESON, Bart., M.P.. »T THE AUTHOR. _^liij.,t C^^,,+,^ Siondon: J. D. POTTER, 31, POULTRY, AND 11, KING STREET, TOWER HILL. MDCCCLXII. EURYALUS; TALES OF T H E S E A. A FEW IliAVKS FROM TlIK DIARY OF A MIDSHIPMAN; AVHICIi SMALT. VCHME „ nBD.CATEn (WITHOUT PKUMIIISSION) TO ONE WHO, VmVHRSA..V BK.OVEn POH r„S BOCNXZPV. CHAU.TV. MOST .CST.Y ADMIUKD roH H,8 abt;«i,a«T OENEKOSITV AND HIS riBEHAL HOSPITALITT— 18 A FHIEND TO THE POOR, AND A FATHER TO THE FATHERLESS— SIR JAMES MATHESON, BART., MP., AMONO WHOSE N.MEHO.S WELL-WISHERS, NONE MORE SINCERE THAN THE AUTHOR OF THESE LEAVES. 1 i<M). Prcjffo N. VV. History Dept. Pi=^OV{N"ClAL LIBRARY ' VlOTPpiA, B.Q. 58^Z[^3 TO ^iB, JAMES MATHE80N, BART., AI.p. DEAR SIR JAMES, IN DEDICATING TO YOU THESE FEW SCENES or .V WILD AND .O.THPUD DaVS, I TRUST VOU WEL. ALLOW ME STILL TO SUBSCRIBE MVSELE YOUR FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. PKKFACE. In placing before immediate friends the incidents of a ^lidshipman's life, the author feels that he has much forgiveness to ask for so great an intrusiou on patience and leisure hours. Having, however, two very unselfish motives for so doing, it gives him some encouragement, and even bold- ness, in launching forth his little volume. He has only to observe that, should any "r.autical terms" here made use of appear inelegant to the reader, they must be kindly passed over—never being intended to offend. He hopes he may also be excused for occasionally giving way to his feelings (and, perhaps, he may imin- tentionally get credit for an excess of g;dlantry). He can assure his readers it is done only to illustrate the sensitive henrt a sailor naturally possesses at all times, and not introduced for the sake of being tliought romantic. As they happened to him when a boy, so they were then recorded in his Diary, and so they are now transferred here. TALES OF THE SEA. Mks from tfee Jjarji of a amsppan. INTRODUCTION. It was the most pressing portion of my father's advice to me, on being first "launchclon the wide world of waters," to "keep a journal"-if the day of the month only, « to note it," and "never to let it fall into arrears." I have often, very often, « heard him say he would give worlds," anything he possessed, if he had written a diary when young, which would have afforded him many a pleasant hour of a wintry evening to have retraced "byegone scenes," and "fought his old battles o'er again." " My boy," says he (a few hours before our first parting), « I'll give you a five pound note* if you keep a journal while you're at sea." I have done so, but need I inform my readers that I have not yet the " five pounds" but I have a far ! greater reward, the satisfac- tion of having by my side, while I am endeavouring to place before my readers the passing incidents of ten years in a midshipman's berth (which embrace a vovaae * A.n inducement to one on ^13 a year. ; ii INTRODUCTION. M round the world, and in nearly all parts of the world) I'hree Volumes, measuring four and a lialf inches in thickness, of closely written pages —scenes as they daily occurred ; and more, after the noisy bulkheads of a Diid's berth and a hammock were forsaken for a gun- room and cabin. I have a still larger volume more closely written, from which I hope to gather some in- structive notes, if these *' leaves" on finishing my midshipman's career have not been found tedious or unacceptable. It was a very long time before I could be pereuaded to place my notes in print; but as I saw that two objects may be gained (neither of them selfish ones), I was in- duced to give way. The first is to illustrate to my young readers the many changes, uncertainties, and vicissitudes there are in the life of a sailor; h:,vv it is chequered by storm and by calm, by gladness and by sorrow ; and liow he is watched and cared for in the mtmy hair- breadth escapes he has from death by a merciful and overruling Providence ! and how iruly it is said that " Those who go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep." The second object is, an inducement to keep a diaiy. The gratification every one of my young nautical readers nmst have in keeping a journal for reference years and years afterwards ; if written daily it is no trouble, but if allowed to get into arrears then is the trial ! a great i deal is then left to the imagination, and a great deal i lost. I always wrote my diary before " turning in," if 'ly lay the month, it was noted ; if a long yarn, . INTRODUCTION. Ill I had " half an hour's lights ;" if my first watch, then I wrote it in pencil on a spare leaf of my watch bill, until my "watch below." I never trusted to memory. " Memory I found a fickle guardian/' and the moment something interesting takes place, all gone before is lost If every one at sea wrote a diary, or kept a journal, what a store of useful and interesting matter we should *' collect ! Although nothing but the blue sky" and " green sea" to behold, I know no place or time more fit for imagination and reflective thought, if those thoughts were then committed to paper ; and nowhere does man appear so alone with his Maker as on the wide and trackless ocean ; and here is the spot for man to contemplate the evidences of design of the great Creator I If it were possible to describe the pleasure and grati- fication it affords me during leisure hours to open any page of ray " three volumes," and read over byegone scenes and hours, recalling to memo:ry events that could never otherwise be thought of, I am convinced there are many who would the moment these " leaves" are unfolded to them, say, " I'm going to keep a journal," and go forthwith and note down the day of the month diaiy. as a beginning. eaders I never seriously thought of pulling " leaves" from :s and my journal (although requested so to do) until long, le, but dreary, wintry evenings in a far north latitude became great wearisome ; it was then I did think it selfish to keep deal hidden " scenes and incidents," which, if put in some- 111, if what readable order, may while away an hour, at all yarn, events on the water. — IV IiNTHODUCTION. With this prelude, therefore, I do not perceive that it is necessary to offer any apology for these "leaverf." Truth needs none, and truth I intend to be the type of my book. It is not my intention to make a novel of it. Novels are easily written, easily concocted, and as easily sought after. These " leaves" contain nothing of the imagination, the incidents are noted daily, and truthfully extracted; and now, having cleared the "ways" with these few plain words, I knock away the ** dog shores" from under my little volume, and " launch" it on the world, having truth for its guiding star. , On opening my MS. journal to extract the first " leaf," I find tiie introduction says : " Dedicated solely to fond and attached parents. " An imperfect and scattered diary of a midshipman (their dutiful son), during a miserable existence of ten years within the dreary bulkheads of a cockpit." The object of the writer will be fully gratified should the scenes and events of boyish days herein narrated while away an occasional lone and dreary hour of a wintry night. " While pots and tiles and chimney tops are flying round, !" Thank Providence, Bill, that you and I are sailors INDEX. INTRODUCTION INDEX. PART III. Chap. 1. First Voyage North , 2. Petropavlovskoi 3. Second Voyage North A Chapter by itself 4. GuRymas 5. The Casa Fuerte 6. Sandwich Isles 7. The Arctic Ocean A Cliapter on Private Theatricals 8. Homeward Bound Last.— St. Helena Page 219 231 241 248 262 273 285 291 299 312 323 ?ratulating. •^v^h"- ..=!. V t. M|. A I i**-. t^ rj m i'i ! ; ! — LEAVES FROM TKB DIARY OF A MIDSHIPMAN. PART I. CHAPTER I. INTKODUCTION TO THE SERVICE. SAM SCOTT — Mr BO^—ENTER THE NAVY— PIEST NIGHT ON BOARD — APPLE-riE BED — DOCKYARD MATEYS — HOSPITALITY STRICT OFFICERS — FIRST REBUKE — SECOND DITTO — AT SEA. " Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer List ye landsmen all to me Messmates, hear a brother sailor Tell the dangers of the sea." The first extract from my Journal contains an incident connected with " Sam Scott " the diver, who, it will be recollected, afterwards accidentally suspended himself while endeavouring to imitate (too nearly) the struggles of a dying wretch on the gallows, during the loud and continued applause of the multitude. When they were exhausted they beheld to their horror that he had imitated it too truly, not to life, but death I he was a corpse On the afternoon of the eventful day that I had been t9 admire the " wooden wall of Old England " that was ! ; 2 SAM SCOTT, in a short time to carry me from tlie land of my birth, Sam Scott was to make a descent from the maintop- gallant yard of a celebrated old Spanish line of battle ship, and he was to fire two pistols and turn a somersault while in the air.
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