Seated among his messmates, a naval lieutenant tells the long story of his first voyage as a green hand, full of storms, calms, strange ships, African coasts and adventures ashore. This edition opens with a short life of Cupples, a Scottish minister’s son who drew the tale from his own youthful time at sea.
A lively sea yarn first serialised in Blackwood’s, though its racial language is that of the 1840s. Download the free EPUB.