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Peter sails for Gibralter with Captain Bainbridge—his character—horrible storm—Henry falls from aloft and is killed—a funeral at sea—English lady prays—Gibralter and the landing of soldiers—a frigate1 and four merchantmen—Napoleon—Wellington and Lord Nelson—a slave ship—her cargo2—five hundred slaves—a wake of blood fifteen hundred miles—sharks eat ’em—Amsterdam—winter there—Captain B. winters in Bristol—Dutchmen—visit to an old battle field—stories about Napoleon—Peter falls overboard and is drowned, almost—make New York the fourth of July—Peter lends five hundred dollars and loses it—sails to the West Indies with Captain Thompson—returns to New York and winters with Lady Rylander—sails with Captain Williams for Gibralter—fleet thirty-seven sail—cruise up the Mediterranean3—Mt. Etna—sails to Liverpool—Lord Wellington and his troops—war between Great Britain and the United States—sails for New York and goes to sea no more—his own confessions4 of his character—dreadful wicked—sings a sailor song and winds up his yarn5.
Peter. “The next spring in the fore6 part of May, I saw Captain Bainbridge on the Battery, and he hails me and says, ‘don’t you want a berth7 for a summer v’ge? I says, ‘yis Sir,’ and then we bargains about wages; and I was to have twenty-five dollars a month, and he told me to go to the Custom-house in the mornin’; and so I did, and several others he’d seen, and we all hired out, and he gin me a steward8’s perquisites9
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confessions
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perquisites
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bunk
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canvass
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v.招徕顾客,兜售;游说;详细检查,讨论 | |
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cannon
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plank
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convoy
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odds
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wholesale
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vile
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rebuke
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injustice
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bosom
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celebrated
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lugging
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labor
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rhino
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overhauled
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distressed
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frigates
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gale
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cape
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drawn
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embargo
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maker
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almighty
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outrageous
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judgment
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saviour
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blotted
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intemperance
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trot
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toil
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