Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast


CONTENTS

    CHAPTER  I  
   Departure
  CHAPTER I Tour in Google Earth

   CHAPTER II  
    First Impressions - "Sail Ho!"

   CHAPTER III  
Ship's Duties - Tropics

   CHAPTER IV  
A Rogue - Trouble on Board - "Land Ho!" - Pompero - Cape Horn

     CHAPTER V 
 Cape Horn - A Visit
CHAPTER V Tour in Google Earth

   CHAPTER VI  
 Loss of a Man - Superstition
CHAPTER VI Tour in Google Earth

  CHAPTER VII   
Juan Fernandez - The Pacific
CHAPTER VII Tour in Google Earth

CHAPTER VIII  
"Tarring Down" - Daily Life -"Going Aft" - California
CHAPTER VIII Tour in Google Earth

   CHAPTER IX  
California - A South-easter
CHAPTER IX Tour in Google Earth

     CHAPTER X  
A South-easter - Passage up the Coast
CHAPTER X Tour in Google Earth

  CHAPTER XI  
Passage up the Coast - Monterey
CHAPTER XI Tour in Google Earth

 CHAPTER  XII  

 CHAPTER XIII  
Trading - A British Sailor
CHAPTER XIII Tour in Google Earth

  CHAPTER XIV  
Santa Barbara - Hide-Droghing - Harbor Duties - Discontent - San Pedro
CHAPTER XIV Tour in Google Earth

  CHAPTER  XV  
A Flogging - A Night on Shore - The State of Things on Board - San Diego

  CHAPTER XVI  
Liberty-day on Shore

 CHAPTER XVII  
San Diego - A Desertion - San Pedro Again - Beating up Coast
CHAPTER XVII Tour in Google Earth

CHAPTER XVIII  
Easter Sunday - "Sail Ho!" - Whales - San Juan - Romance of Hide-Droghing - 
             San Diego Again

   CHAPTER XIX  
The Sandwich Islanders - Hide-curing - Wood-cutting - Rattlesnakes - New-comers

   CHAPTER  XX 
 Leisure - News from Home - "Burning the Water"

  CHAPTER  XXI  
California and Its Inhabitants

  CHAPTER XXII  
Life on Shore - The Alert

 CHAPTER XXIII  
New Ship and Shipmates - My Watchmate
CHAPTER XXIII Tour in Google Earth

 CHAPTER  XXIV  
San Diego Again - A Descent - Hurried Departure - A New Shipmate

  CHAPTER  XXV  
Rumors of War - A Spouter - Slipping for a South-easter - A Gale

  CHAPTER XXVI  
San Francisco - Monterey

 CHAPTER XXVII  
The Sunday Wash-up - On Shore - A Set-to - A Grandee - "Sail Ho!" - A Fandango

 CHAPTER XXVIII  
An Old Friend - A Victim - California Rangers - News from Home - Last Looks

   CHAPTER XXIX  
Loading for Home - A Surprise - Last of an Old Friend - The Last Hide - A Hard Case - 
               Up Anchor, for Home! - Homeward Bound

    CHAPTER XXX  
Beginning the Long Return Voyage - A Scare

    CHAPTER XXXI  
Bad Prospects - First Touch of Cape Horn - Icebergs - Temperance Ships - Lying-up - Ice - Difficulty on Board - Change of Course - Straits of Magellan

  CHAPTER XXXII  
Ice Again - A Beautiful Afternoon - Cape Horn - "Land-Ho!" - Heading for Home

CHAPTER  XXXIII  
Cracking on - Progress Homeward - A Pleasant Sunday - A Fine Sight - By-Play

 CHAPTER XXXIV  
Narrow Escapes - The Equator - Tropical Squalls - A Thunder Storm

  CHAPTER XXXV  
A Double reef-top-sail Breeze - Scurvy - A Friend in Need - Preparing for Port - 
                The Gulf Stream

 CHAPTER XXXVI  
Soundings - Sights from Home - Boston Harbor - Leaving the Ship
                Concluding Chapter
CHAPTER XXXVI Tour in Google Earth




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