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Ned Myers

James Fenimore Cooper

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .nds were called, and the rags were rolled up, and the gaskets passed. The ship now laboured so awfully that she began to leak. The swell was so high that we did not dare to come by the wind, and the seas would come in, just about the main chains, meet in board and travel out over her bows in a way to threaten everything that could be moved. We lads were lashed at the pumps, and ordered to keep at work; and to make matters worse, the wheat began to work its way into the pump-well. While things were in this state, the main-top-sail split, leaving the ship without a rag of sail on her.

The Sterling loved to be under water, even in moderate weather. Many a time have I seen her send the water aft, into the quarter-deck scuppers, and, as for diving, no loon was quicker than she. Now, that she was deep and was rolling her deck-load to the water, it was time to think of lightening her. The cotton was thrown overboard as fast as we could, and what the men could not start . . . Read More

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3.00
- Chip - Aug 30, 2013

A very interesting read! It reminded me quite a bit of Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, but where Dana was a rich kid taking time off from Harvard to go slumming with sailors, Myers was the real thing, who ran away from his foster parents to join a ship, was taken prisoner during the

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- Miles - May 26, 2018

Hard to describe. Its a novelized autobiography focusing on a sailor in the United States Navy in the Early Republic. The ending is fantastic, but much of the narrative is wordy and halting.

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