Category: Adventure
Description of the Bark--She sets Sail--Uncomfortable Situation--Specimen of our Discomforts--A Squall--Escape from a Waterspout--Approach to the Cape Verde Islands--Religious Services--A School of Porpoises--A Dutch Vessel--A Flying-fish--Annoyances--Bad Cooking--A Practical...
Whales--Sunshine--The Pacific Ocean and Tom Moore--Wormy Bread and Impure Water--A Pilot--Arrival in the Harbor of San Francisco--The City--Dismantled Ships--My last Visit to th...
22. CHAPTER IX.Character of the Inhabitants--Agricultural Implements--Lassoing Cattle--Poncho--A Covered Wagon--Wild Doves--An Earthquake--An Excursion--Dogs, Women, Children, and Shells--A Sc...
17. CHAPTER IV.Visit to the Botanical Garden--Description of the Garden--Dinner at the Hotel--Third Visit to the City--Impudence of the First Mate--Village of San Domingo--A Walk in the Countr...
19. CHAPTER VI.A Disagreeable Scene--Scarcity of Oil--Lamps and Slush--An Albatross--Ill Manners of the Mate--Cold Weather--The Whiffletree Watch--Disagreeable Scene--Magellan Clouds and South...
20. CHAPTER VII.Severe Cold--Furious Storm--Diego Ramirez Islands--Land Ahead--Cape Horn Weather--Two Vessels--Length of Days and Nights--Disagreeable Brawl--Heading North--Patagonia--The Andes...
23. CHAPTER X.Religious Services--A Beautiful Bird--Departure of Cape Pigeons and Albatrosses--Stormy Petrels--Amusements--Harmony among the Passengers--Mrs. L----t and her Child--Violence of...
21. CHAPTER VIII.Captain J. seems to be actuated by only one object, namely, to make a profitable voyage for his employers, regardless of the rights or comforts of his passengers. And any little...
24. CHAPTER XI.An Arbitrary Prohibition--Card Playing and Checker Playing--Dancing--Treachery of Mr. Johnson--Some Passengers--A Comical Character, and a Pugnacious Character--A Beautiful Bird...
18. CHAPTER V.We did not weigh anchor until 2 P.M. As we were beating out of the harbor, we met the Portuguese brig, which we had spoken on the fourteenth instant, coming in. After getting ou...
15. CHAPTER II.Consultations about Cape Verde Islands--Flying-fish--English Steamer--Tropical Showers--Disappointment--Capture of a Porpoise--May-Day at Sea--An English Bark--Letters for Home-...
14. CHAPTER I.Description of the Bark--She sets Sail--Uncomfortable Situation--Specimen of our Discomforts--A Squall--Escape from a Waterspout--Approach to the Cape Verde Islands--Religious S...
16. CHAPTER III._One o'clock P.M._ We had just settled down into a sullen resignation to our fate, and some of the passengers had been trying to amuse themselves by making unsuccessful shots at...
25. CHAPTER XII.Head Winds--The Dusky Albatross--Tacking Ship--Fishing for Birds--Amusements of the Mate and Passengers--A Poet--Fair Winds--A Porpoise--A Fight in the Main Cabin--My Journal--O...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Whales--Sunshine--The Pacific Ocean and Tom Moore--Wormy Bread and Impure Water--A Pilot--Arrival in the Harbor of San Francisco--The City--Dismantled Ships--My last Visit to th...
10. CHAPTER X.Religious Services--A Beautiful Bird--Departure of Cape Pigeons and Albatrosses--Stormy Petrels--Amusements--Harmony among the Passengers--Mrs. L----t and her Child--Violence of...
4. CHAPTER IV.Visit to the Botanical Garden--Description of the Garden--Dinner at the Hotel--Third Visit to the City--Impudence of the First Mate--Village of San Domingo--A Walk in the Countr...
6. CHAPTER VI.A Disagreeable Scene--Scarcity of Oil--Lamps and Slush--An Albatross--Ill Manners of the Mate--Cold Weather--The Whiffletree Watch--Disagreeable Scene--Magellan Clouds and South...
9. CHAPTER IX.Character of the Inhabitants--Agricultural Implements--Lassoing Cattle--Poncho--A Covered Wagon--Wild Doves--An Earthquake--An Excursion--Dogs, Women, Children, and Shells--A Sc...
2. CHAPTER II.Consultations about Cape Verde Islands--Flying-fish--English Steamer--Tropical Showers--Disappointment--Capture of a Porpoise--May-Day at Sea--An English Bark--Letters for Home-...
11. CHAPTER XI.An Arbitrary Prohibition--Card Playing and Checker Playing--Dancing--Treachery of Mr. Johnson--Some Passengers--A Comical Character, and a Pugnacious Character--A Beautiful Bird...
12. CHAPTER XII.Head Winds--The Dusky Albatross--Tacking Ship--Fishing for Birds--Amusement of the Mate and Passengers--A Poet--Fair Winds--A Porpoise--A Fight in the Main Cabin--My Journal--Op...
1. CHAPTER I.Description of the Bark--She sets Sail--Uncomfortable Situation--Specimen of our Discomforts--A Squall--Escape from a Waterspout--Approach to the Cape Verde Islands--Religious S...
7. CHAPTER VII.Severe Cold--Furious Storm--Diego Ramirez Islands--Land Ahead--Cape Horn Weather--Two Vessels--Length of Days and Nights--Disagreeable Brawl--Heading North--Patagonia--The Andes...
3. CHAPTER III.5. CHAPTER V.8. CHAPTER VIII.