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 81 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 75 Si er ae ek ta CS Then they all formed a circle round the kid and one after the other with great regularity dipped their spoons into the…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 82 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 76 REDBURN though at the eleventh hour and offered myself once more as a candidate But alas there was little more of the Dismal Swamp left and when I reached over to…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 83 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER XII HE GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF ONE OF HIS SHIPMATES CALLED JACKSON WHILE we sat eating our beef and biscuit two of the men got into a dispute about who had…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 84 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 78 REDBURN he was a near relation of General Jackson of New Orleans and swore terribly if any one ventured to question what he asserted on that head In fact he was…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 85 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 79 eR SO EOE STE AT OS LIND Nie ei stowed heel and point like logs and the suffocated and dead were unmanacled and weeded out from the living…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 86 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 80 REDBURN me with such malevolence as he did For I was young and handsome at least my mother so thought me and as soon as I became a little used to…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 87 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 81 ma eS SR EST APN oe ee Oe oot Oe yet I observed that though this Jackson was a notorious old soger the whole voyage I mean in…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 88 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 82 REDBURN But then this Belfast man although he had shipped for an ableseaman was not much of a sailor and that always lowers a man in the eyes of a ships…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 89 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 83 Soetoro eS very quick as if it were something like a forked tongue and somehow I felt as if he were longing to kill the man but at…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 90 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 84 REDBURN terrible thing at last But upon second thoughts I always gave it up for the captain would only have called me a fool and sent me forward again But you…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 91 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 85 about a ship and they seem to think that an able seasnan is a great man at least a much greater man than a little boy And the…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 92 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER XIII HE HAS A FINE DAY AT SEA BEGINS TO LIKE IT BUT CHANGES HIS MIND Tue second day out of port the decks being washed down and breakfast over the…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 93 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 87 itself for we were out of sight of land All round us on both sides of the ship ahead and astern nothing was to be seen but waterwaterwater…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 94 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 88 REDBURN aloft as the wind was getting fairer and fairer for us and these stunsails are light canvas which are spread at such times away out beyond the ends of the…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 95 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 83 they were always called buckets And once I was talking about sticking a little wooden peg into a bucket to stop a leak when he flew out again…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 96 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 90 REDBURN and as soon as the vessel felt them she gave a sort of bound like a horse and the breeze blowing more and more she went plunging along shaking off…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 97 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER XIV HE CONTEMPLATES MAKING A SOCIAL CALL ON THE CAPTAIN IN HIS CABIN Wuar reminded me most forcibly of my ignominious con dition was the widely altered manner of the captain…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 98 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 92 _ REDBURN hard biscuit of the forecastle must at first be to a boy like me who had always lived ashore and at home And I could not help regarding him…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 99 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 93 a eI I SE SSE i rate at Sgt jacket I put that on over all so that upon the whole I made quite a genteel figure at…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 100 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 94 REDBURN captain whom I intended to visit that evening Upon this he gave me such a whirl round that I thought the Gulf Stream was in my head and then shoved…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 101 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HiS FIRST VOYAGE 93 goodhumored and amiable and it being just after his din ner I thought that this to be sure was just the chance I wanted I waited a little…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 102 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 96 REDBURN some days after a storm came upon us and the captain rushed out of the cabin in his nightcap and nothing else but his shirt on and leaping up on…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 103 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER XV THE MELANCHOLY STATE OF HIS WARDROBE Anp now that I have been speaking of the captains old clothes I may as well speak of mine It was very early in…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 104 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 98 REDBURN rigging sometimes in plain sight of the cabin with my table linen exposed in the most inelegant and ungentlemanly man ner possible And worse than all my best pair of…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 105 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 99 When my pantaloons ripped and tore as I have said I did my best to mend and patch them but not being much of a sempstress the more…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 106 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 100 REDBURN old shingle roof and in a rain storm kept my hair wet and disagreeable Besides from lying down on deck in it dur ing the night watches it got bruised…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 107 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HI8 FIRST VOYAGE 101 epee eects times scratched my face when I was drinking and it was unusually large and heavy so that my breakfasts were de prived of all ease and…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 108 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 102 é REDBURN And here had this vessel come out of the infinite blue ocean with all these human beings on board and the smoke tranquilly mounting up into the seaair from…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 109 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER XVI AT DEAD OF NIGHT HE IS SENT UP TO LOOSE THE MAIN SKYSAIL I must now run back a little and tell of my first going aloft at sea It…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 110 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 104 REDBURN and doing boys business as they called it made no more ado but jumped into the rigging Up I went not daring tu look down but keeping my eyes glued…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 111 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 105 tying up the sail and when all was ready sung out as I had been told to hoist away And hoist they did and me too along with…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 112 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 106 REDBURN for like all European seamen in American ships Max prided himself not a little upon his naturalization as a Yankee and if he could would have been very glad to…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 113 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER XVII THE COOK AND STEWARD Ir was on a Sunday we made the Banks of Newfound land a drizzling foggy clammy Sunday You could hardly see the water owing to the…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 114 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 108 REDBURN And doctors cooks certainly are the very best medicos in the world for what pestilent pills and potions of the Faculty are half so servicable to man and healthandstrength giving…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 115 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … AIS FIRST VOYAGE 109 Fronting the stove and very close to it was a sort of narrow shelf where he used to sit with his legs spread out very wide to keep…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 116 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 110 REDBURN get up before daylight and make his fire with the sea breaking over the bows and now and then dashing into his stove So under the circumstances you could not…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 117 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … HIS FIRST VOYAGE 11 Tne we a OO NN OMEN Lesh al ih vests and buff and brimstone pantaloons and several full suits of black which with his darkcolored face made him…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 118 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 112 REDBURN that were to blame for his bewitching person turned all heads and subdued all hearts wherever he went And then he would look very serious and penitent and go up…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 119 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … CHAPTER XVIII HE ENDEAVORS TO IMPROVE HIS MIND AND TELLS OF ONE BLUNT AND HIS DREAMBOOK On the Sunday afternoon I spoke of it was my watch below and I thought I…- Contributor: Melville, Herman
- Date: 1855
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Image 120 of Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, … 114 REDBURN copies in the sailor bookstalls about Fulton Market and along Southstreet in New York But this Sunday I got out a book from which I expected to reap great profit…- 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