Book/Printed Material Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, in the merchant service.
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Image 41 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 35 other hints made a great show of having something confi dential to communicate But the hooknosed man spoke out very loud and said None of that take it…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 42 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 36 REDBURN a poor woman in a nightcap with some babyclothes in her hand looked fearfully at the pawnbroker as if dreading to encounter such a terrible pattern of integrity At last…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 43 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER V HE PURCHASES HIS SEAWARDROBE AND ON A DISMAL RAINY DAY PICKS UP HIS BOARD AND LODGING ALONG THE WHARVES Tue first thing I now did was to buy a little…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 44 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 38 REDBURN fully and hung a towel over the knob so that no one could peep through the keyhole and then went to trying on my red woolen shirt before the glass…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 45 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 39 sailors who was going in the ship I thought it wouldnt be wise to make an enemy of him so only asked him where the men slept in…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 46 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 40 REDBURN throw away my last penny for the doughnuts were but a penny apiece and they looked very plump and fat and round I never saw doughnuts look so enticing before…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 47 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 41 PRAT een PRMD che ae ie eRe MU ae conversing but found he was the most stupid and ignorant boy I had ever met with I asked him…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 48 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER VI HE IS INITIATED IN THE BUSINESS OF CLEANING OUT THE PIGPEN AND SLUSHING DOWN THE TOPMAST By the time I got back to the ship every thing was in an…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 49 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 43 learned of him would have knocked me down or done something else equally uncivil As I was standing looking round me the chief mate ap proached in a…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 50 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 44 REDBURN After looking round I found a stick and went to scraping out the pen which was awkward work enough for another boat called the jollyboat was capsized right over the…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 51 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRSTVOYAGE 45 never gave reasons for any thing they order to be done It is enough that they command it so that the motto is Obey orders though you break owners…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 52 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 46 REDBURN headwelltake this bucket here and go up the rigging that ropeladder theredo you understand and dab this slush all over the mast and look out for your head if one…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 53 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 47 trunks of cabin passengers arrived and the chests and boxes of the steerage passengers besides baskets of wine and fruit for the captain At last we cast loose…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 54 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER VII HE GETS TO SEA AND FEELS VERY BAD Every thing at last being in readiness the pilot came on board and all hands were called to up anchor While I…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 55 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 49 tt my heavyheartedness but it would notdo at all for this was only the first day of the voyage and many weeks nay several whole months must elapse…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 56 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 50 REDBURN away the hawsers talking about the boardinghouses they were going to when they came back and how that some friends of theirs had promised to be on the wharf when…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 57 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE ol where the sky comes down to the water It looks lonely and desolate enough and I could hardly believe as I gazed around me that there could be…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 58 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 52 REDBURN Petersburgh drawn by large dogs in a sled I mention this of my uncle because he was the very first seacaptain I had ever seen and his white hair and…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 59 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 53 But I must not think of those delightful days before my father became a bankrupt and died and we removed from the city for when I think of…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 60 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 54 REDBURN apical es Pre babaRersy time I felt the ship roll a strange feeling enough as if it were a great barrel in the water Shortly after I observed a swift…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 61 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER VIII HE IS PUT INTO THE LARBOARD WATCH 5 GETS SEASICK AND RELATES SOME OTHER OF HIS EXPERIENCES Ir was now getting dark when all at once the sailors were ordered…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 62 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 56 REDBURN 2 i ae At last they were all chosen but me and it was the chief mates next turn to choose though there could be little choosing in my case…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 63 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 57 sir and they are as particular about being sirred as so many knights and baronets though their titles are not he reditary as is the case with the…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 64 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 58 REDBURN that this was the beginning of that dreadful thing the sea sickness Feeling worse and worse I told one of the sail ors how it was with me and begged…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 65 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 53 ears and a silver ring on one of his fingers which was very much worn and bent from pulling ropes and other work on board ship I thought…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 66 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 60 REDBURN to retire for the night This Greenlander seeing I was ill volunteered to turn doctor and cure me so going down into the forecastle he came back with a brown…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 67 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 61 eNOS A Wir oocten ns sees ee eT NS TR ey G2 their pledges which I am truly sorry to say was the case with me And a…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 68 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 62 REDBURN Though a very serious character as I shall hereafter show he was for all that and perhaps for that identical reason avery suspicious looking sort of a cook that I…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 69 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER IX THE SAILORS BECOMING A LITTLE SOCIAL REDBURN CON VERSES WITH THEM Tue latter part of this first long watch that we stood was very pleasant so far as the weather…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 70 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … te REDBURN times felt when in a twilight room a cousin of mine with black eyes used to play some old German airs on the piano I almost looked round for goblins…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 71 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 65 they never carried any pies and tarts to sea with them instead of spirits and cigars Ned for that was the mans name split open the box with…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 72 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 66 REDBURN for at the outset I had deemed them such a parcel of wicked hardhearted rascals that it would be a severe afflic tion to associate with them Yes I now…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 73 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 67 kindly as thesk did then Yet this sandignd have been owing to my being something of a stranger to them then and our being just out of port…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 74 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 68 REDBURN that I began to feel a good degree of complacency and satis faction in surveying my own character for before this I had previously associated with persons of a very…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 75 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER X HE IS VERY MUCH FRIGHTENED THE SAILORS ABUSE HIM AND HE BECOMES MISERABLE AND FORLORN Wate the scene last described was going on we were all startled by a horrid…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 76 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 70 REDBURN Se aE ee Se See ee the stars in heaven if they had been mine had I been safe back at Mr Jones or still better in my home on…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 77 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 71 coward who could never be brought to endure the hardships of a sailors life for I felt myself trembling and knew that I was but a coward then…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 78 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 72 REDBURN At last they ceased talking and fell fast asleep leaving me awake seated on a chest with my face bent over my knees between my hands And there I sat…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 79 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER XI HE HELPS WASH THE DECKS AND THEN GOES TO BREAKFAST Tue next thing I knew was the loud thumping of a handspike on deck as the watch was called again…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 80 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 74 REDBURN just as captains of fire engines love to point the tube of their hose for he kept me running after him with full buckets of water and sometimes chased a…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
About this Item
Title
- Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, in the merchant service.
Names
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Created / Published
- New York, Harper & Brothers, 1855.
Headings
- - Sailors--Fiction
- - Young men--Fiction
- - Seafaring life--Fiction
- - Merchant mariners--Fiction
- - Liverpool (England)--Fiction
- - Americans--England--Fiction
Genre
- Autobiographical fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Sea stories
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- xi, [13]-390 p. 19 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PZ3.M498 R6 PS2384.R4
Library of Congress Control Number
- 07017949
OCLC Number
- 11245214
Online Format
- online text
- image